LIVE STOCK SALE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1109, 24 April 1911, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALE

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:—At our Waverlcy sale on Friday we yarded 575 sheep and 275 cattle, and we have to report a dull sale, the bulk of the yarding being passed at auction. We, however, succeeded in placing the bull; of the yarding before the close of the day. We n.noto:-Good' lambs, 7s. 10d.; fiftcon-months steers, £2 15s. to £2 195. , ; cighteen-months etcers, £3 10s.; two and a half-year steers, .£<! 95.; store cows, £2 !7s. 6d.; forward ditto. £3 11s.; fatters, £1 fe. 6d.; two-year heifers, £3 135.; mixed weaners, 135., 145., .61, £1 2s. 6d.; good wcaner steers. £1 lie.; Jerseycross weaner heifers, £1 11s. Messrs. Balpety and Company, Limited (Palmerston North branch) report:—At our weekly sale at Feilding on SJriday wo had a. good yarding of sheep and cattle. Bidding for sheep was lifeless, and prices were easier, but we managed to dispose of all lots oG'ered with the exception of one small pen at prices as below:-Cull lambs, 2s. Id., 2.=. 3d. to 35.; small ditto, to <5.; good wether lambs, to '7s. 6d.; two-tooth wethers, sniall,. to .lls.j .twp-to,oth wether.-, to 1(3. Bd.; forward ewe's, to 10s. 2d. Cattle;

Yearling steers, to £1; two to two unci a half-year steers, to £3 17s. 6(1.; .lcrsoy heifers, to £6 2s. 6d. A nice line of two and a half-veil' steers, -old on account of Watt Bras., "Peep o' Day," realised £5 11s. J[r. Newton King's weekly stock report is as follow?.—At Stratford on Tuesday there was a fair yarding, and, although bidding was not so brisk as of late, a fair amount of. business was done at the following prices -.-Mixed wenneva made 17s. to 315.; fifteen-months heifers £2 Sp. to £2 U-~,. 6d.; heifers, U.W.8., £3 12s. 6d. to £4; eighteenmonths steers, £2 17«. to £3 B=. 6d.; store cows. £2 7s. to £3 13*. 6(1.; forward cov.-f, £1 19s. to £4 155.: fat cows, £4 19s. to £5 3s. 6d.; heifers at profit, £S to £5 55.; bulls, heavy, £4 15s. to £6 12s. 6d.; ordinary, £2 ies. to £■! fe.; lambs, 55.; four and sixtooth and f.m. ewes, 11s. 6d.; fat ewes, 13s. to .143.; four and six-tooth wethers, 12s. lid. At. Stony Itiver on Wednesday, weanors maue 255. Sd. to 265. 6d.; store'cows, £2 16?. to £3 10s.; forward cows, £4 to £<1 65.; fat. cows, £5 6s. to £6 10s.: snringine: cowe, up to £6 155.; bulls, £4 10s.; woolly lambs., Bs. 4d. ; small lamb?, 6s. 10d.; four and six-tooth and f.m. ewes, fe. 7d. At Urenul on Thursday wc.iners made 225. 6d. t° 365.; fifteen to cighteen-nionths steers, f 3 Is-: fmpty heifers, £3 14.=.; in-calf heifers £5 2s. to £5 Is.; heifer*, . to £5 7s. 6d.; springing cows, £5 7s. to.£3 25.; forward cows, £4 7a.; fat cows, ±.5 to £o 76. 6d.; springing cows, £5 7s. 6d.; cows and calves, £3 14s. to £4 Is.; thrsa to four-year bullocks, £5 ss. to £6 !Cs.; bulls, £3 16s. to £4 10s. j light draught horses, £11 to £18.