LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1248, 5 October 1911, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgoty and Co., Ltd., report:--At our Wanganui sale yesterday we had a fair yarding of cattle aria Ghee?, and have to report a rather dull F.nle for all classes.' Fat wethers, 19s. 9d.;. mixed hoggets, 11s., 11s.- Bd., to 13s.;'email do. 7s. 6d. to Bs.; store owes, Bs. 4d. to 9s. two and . a half-year steers, £4 Us. 6d. store cows, £2 19s. 6d.; dairy cows, £5 k £5 15s. to £7. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., repori having held their weekly sale at the Sol way (Jlastcrton) yards yesterday, wher they offered a. go:>d yarding of botl cattle and sheep. These met with a vorj ready sale, well up to vendors' ideas. Th< principal entry was on account of Jfr Jas. Cooper, of Carrington, Carterton. wh( has lately «>!d his farm. It comprised steers, ranging from 15-months to four year-old, while the eheep entry compriret hoggets and wethers. 'Woolly cwo hog gets, to-255. 6d.; woolly wether hoggets to 14s. 9d.; ewes and wethers, mixed, 12s 6d. to 16a.; fat wethere. !°s.; woolly hog Rets (medium), ICs. 7d. to 11s. 7d.; Ehori lionets, es. to 9=.; poorer sorts, to 6*. '.A. ewes and lambs, to 12s. 4d. Cattle: Four year-old steers, to £6 Kc.j thrce-yeai steers, to £5 Is.; two-year 'steers, to £> 125.; 15-months s-teere, £3 to £3 45.; 50 months steers, £3 18s. to £4 Is.; springtnt cows, £8 to £9 Kg.; s;>ringtnß heifers, £i 10s. to £7 10s.; cows in milk, to £5 7s. 6d. Messrs. Abraham and Williams. Ltd. report on their Jobnsnnvillc salo, hei( yesterday, as follows:—A heavy yarding o: prime bullocks aud extra quality shoei came forward. Cattle sold readily; Inr shesp iuet rather a. dragging sale, we disposed of nearly every pen before thi sale finished. Extra heavy prime bullocks £11 15s. to £12 2s. 6d.; prime heavy bul locks, £11 to £11 Ms.: lighter. £10 lEe. t>. £10 17s. 6d.; vealors, 245., 315., to 3Es. More cov.'S, 30s. t:> £3: primn fcmvj wethers, 2&. 3d. to 235. <!d.; good wethers 21s. to 225.; extra, prime heavy ev/<v ! . 23s to 2;g. '(1.; prime'heavy ewes, 21s. 9d. t< 223.; prime ewes. £1 Os. 9d. to 21«. 2d nrim« owes, 18s. 6d.; nrirae lambs, 13s. 9d M V-.\ ultra, 15s. 9d.; liglitor, 13s. tt 13s. 6(1. BURNSIDE STOCK SUEKET. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) Duncdln, October 4. At BuTDside there was a nicdv lT T. "entry of Tat cattle, 169 beinc: yarded. Tfir quality all round was very fair. Owinp to th° nrceence of outside buyers, bjddm« was brisk, and prices chowed a rise ol from 10s. to 15s. per hend; best biilhcfcs. £12 ICs. to £13 irr-.: oxtra iroo''l. £'4 ti £16 ?fl. Cd.; irood, £li) 10s. (o £11 lfs.: lidit, f.i 10s. to £9 ICs.; best cows ar<i V»if.->-f-, £9 ICs. to .£lO 10s.: extra, to £12 12s. M.: medinm to good, £7 ICs. to £8 10a. j light, £fi to £7. Fat sheep: 3779 penned. Tbe ntin'itv wa*) very ranch Mow that of Inst week's entry. Practically no "utsit'e huv-T "•era present, and the price? for prime lini"! showed a (Valine of abnnt )r,. nnr head. A lante numhor of unfinished s>"vvi were forward, buj priros were hy fio ontratint:. Best wethers, 225. 6d. to 255.; estra. to 235.: mrvJvnm t--) rood. 193. to 215.; light nnd i"ifiniFhpd. 17s. 6-1. ti 195.: best cwpo. IS-, t-o 193.; extra, to 21s. 9d.: goid. 14s. 64. to 16s. Fnt lambs: 42 of (rood ou.nlity worn pfiiisd. nnd prices ruled frnni ?!i. to 235. for hcut, down to 13s. 3d. for liV'it. Pigs: About 120 r.onnod. chicly r.f/irp? nnd suckers. Porkers and baconers wn in short nunply. and sold cx<v»din<?ly well. Young piffs were nlso well onmnetra (or, and showed a distinct advar"-e. Suckers, 9s. fo 13«. 6d.; slips, Ife. to ?'». srt.. stores. 225. 6d. to 255.; po-kers. 3Cs. to 36?.; light, baconers, 445. to ?o s .; heavy do., 60s. to 81s.; choppers, to 120s.