LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1382, 7 March 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report:—At our Wanganui sale yesterday we yarded 31C0 sheep and 220 cattle, and have to report a fair demand for sheep, and a dull market for cattle. Fat and forward wethers, 13=. 6d.; 48 fivc-y-sar ewes, ICs. 6d., 10s. 9d., to 10s. Utl.; f.m. ewes, 55., 75., 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d.; cull ditto, 3s. to 9s. 6rt. Cattle: Fat cows, .€5 155.; weaners, £1 2s. to £1 6s. 6d.j eiehteen-uionth heifers, £3 55.: store cows, £3 125.; dairy cow, £11; hulls, £3 to £4 10s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale, held yesterday, as follows:—A good entry came forward of both prime sheep and bullocks, which realised well up to late prices. Prime heavy bullocks. £9 10,=. to £10; extra prime medium bullocks. £9 to £9 55.; vealers 17s. to 285.; medium wethers, 15s. to 15s. 6d.; prime owes, 13s. 6d. to 14s. 3d.; nlain ewes. 11s. 6d. to 12s. 3d.; prime lambs, 13s. to 13s. Zd.i lighter, 12s. to 12s. 6d.; prime shorn. 12s. 7d.; plain, , 9s. 2d. to 11s. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report, a heavy yardinc, in sheep for their sale at Solway, and rates wore fully up to those of recent sales. Ewes, ICs. to 125.; culls, 55.; wethers, 10s. to 125.; lambs, 6s. to 95.; fat cows, £5 Messrs. Abraham and- Williams (Masterton branch) report:—We had a very heavy yarding of stock, submitting 3500 fiheep and 500 cattle to a. large attendance. We report a good sale, every pen being disposed of before the close of the sale. Fin. ewes, best, 13s. 2d. to 13s. 3d.; others, 11-t 'fid to 125.: two-tooth ewes, 12s. 3d. to 12s' 6d.- cull ewes, 4s. Gd.. B.=. 7d., to 9a. 4d • fat ewes, 11s. 3d. to 125.; lambs, Bs. 3d!'to Bs. 6d.; fat wethers, 12s 9d : fourtooth, very forward, wethers. 14s. 6d.: cull wethers, Bs. 10d.; special entry by Mr. 31. T M'Grcor. Hlkoranzi, f.m. ewes. 11s. 6(1. to 125.; Tsethers, two-tooth. 12s. The stud Shropshire sheep of Mr. Peter Cooper sold as follow:— Four-year Shropshire ewes, j Euineas: live and sh-y:ar ewe?, } guinea; four-tooth ewes, 1 guinea; 2-tooth ewes, H guineas; sis-tooth ewes. 1 guinea; ram and ewe lambs, 1 guinea; stud Shropshire nm 10 euineas. Cull cows made 2&.: pmntv cows, £2 10s. to £2 125.; forward rows £3 19s. to £4 Bs. 6d.; eighteen-months steer's .£3 Us. to £4; cows, with calves at foot. '£4 B*. 6(1. Messrs James Macintosh and Co. report Uaviii"' held their weekly sale in their Waipoua yards on Wednesday, when they ottered o. varding well above advertised numbers" of" both cattle and sheep. There wa- a good attendance of buyers, nnd biddine was fairly brisk, especially for good ewe= wethers, end lambs, but poorer sorts were very dull of sale. In the cattle entry everv lot met with good competition, and the firm report n clearance. Fat ewes. 10s. 9d. to Us. 2d.; fa.t wethers, 12s. 10(1. to 13?.: forward two-tooth ewes and wethers, to 11s. Id,; f.m. «*?!, '!■ 7d.. H*. 6d v to «?,; shorn lamb*, So. lid., «t. 2d., ««. -it., to i>. 7*.: woolly biniUi li. 4<l. to ?».; sue small

woolly lambs ss. to 6s. lid.; cull ewes, 2s. 9(1. to 3?. 8(1.; Southdown rams, to 3 guineas'. Cattle: Store cows, to £<1: springine heifers lo £4 7s. 6d.: store heifers, lo £2 7s. 6(1. i calves 20s. to 255. ADDINGTON MARKET. [Br Tek'Crauli.- i'resi As'uclullan.l Christchurch, March 6. At Aldington live stock market there wit" Hf'u entries of stock, and the attendance wus larger than usual. Good clashes of store owes and lambs sold at late rates but inferior descriptions were easier. Fat lambs were down about Is. per hoad. Fat prime wethers sold at good prices, but other classes of fat sheep were easier. Fat cuttle showed no change in values, and fat pigs showed a decline in prices all round. Store pigs and Etore and dairy cattle sold well., . There was a slight reduction in the number of 'tore sheep offered. The bulk of the offerings comprised ewes, the balance being principally lambs of all classes and a, few neus of wethers. Among tin? ewes γ-crc some good 'fetation lines, most ol which were in nice condition. The yarding again included a proportion of oversea, sheep, many of which lacked both condition and duality. Oood ewes sold well up to lats rates, but inferior and travel-stain-cd lots and aged sheep met with weaker competition. The few lots of forward rape lambs also sold well, but ordinary stores changed hands at lower rate?. There was practically no change in the demand or pricos for store wethers. Two-tooth cwea made 15s. 6(1. to 17s. 6d.; four-tooths 14s. |6d. to 15s. 5d.; four, six and eight-tooth oversea sheep, 145.; sood lines of locally bred, 15s. 6d. to 165.; fresh mouths, 14s. to 15s. 6d.; sound mouth, 11s. to 13?.; aged, Bs. to 9s. 6d.: best rape lambs, 12s. 6d. to 13s. 4d.; medium.. Bs. 6d. to lie. oil.; culls, 5= to 6s. 6d.; forward wethers, to 155.; others. Its. 6d. to 13s. There were 6018 fat lambs penned, or about 630 more than the previous week. Included in the entry were several, large prime lines from the northern district, and thn quality as a. whole was an improvement upon last week s yarding. There was not quite such keen competition on the part of some of the export buyers, and prices ell round wore about Is. per head lower. Th; basis upon which export buyers were operating was sd. per lb. up to 421b. weight, and 4Jd. per lb. for overweight and secondary quality, 'lhere were 5250 taken for export. The range of prices was- Tegs 16s. to 17s. Ud.; and ordinary w=ig'hts, lls. 10(1 to 15s. 10d. There was a large yarding of fat sheep, including some good lines of wethers. There was good competition at firm rates for wethers, but all other classes were easier, medium and inferior ewes being down about Is. per head. The range of prices was: Prime wethers. 17s. to 19s. Bd.; others 13s. 10d. to 16s. 6d.; prime ewes, 13s. to 16s. 11(1.; others, Bs. to 12s. 6d. 'i'h* supply of beef totalled 198 head, or 200 fewer than Inst week. The quality was good, especially that of the heifers. Thero was an irregular demand, but on the whole prices showed little or no change, the average being equal to 245. to 275. per 1001b. Steers made £8 10s. to £12 55.; heifers, £5 7s. 6d. to £8 17s. 6d.; and cows, £5 15s. to £8 17s. 6d. Veal calves sold at 4s. 6d. to £3, and tip to £3 18s., for extra large, the entry being a. small one. A small yarding of store cattle sold well, yearlings making 315.: fifteen to eightecnmonths, £3 13s. to £3 17s. 6d.; two-year ste-rs, £4 155.; two-year heifers. £3 17s. 6d.; and dry cows, 255. to -£4 7s. 6d. Dairy cows sold at £4 10s. to £9 10s., and extra to £10 15s. There was a moderate entry of fat pigs of varied quality, and there was on easier tone in the market, orices being under those of late sales. Choppers made 655. to £5 155.; large baconers, 60s. to 705.; extra, to 80s.; smaller, 50s. to 575. 6d. (equal to s}d. to 53d. per lb.); large porkers, 425. 6d. to 475. 6d.; smaller, 355. to 40s. (equal to 6d. per lb.). Stores of all descriptions sold under keen competition, large sorts making 40s. to 455.; iridium, 30s. to 385.; small, 18s. to 285.; and weaners, 12s. 6d. to 14s. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Waikonae on Tuesday we had a good yarding of sheep, which met with rather a dragging sale. A fnir yarding of cattle met with good competition. At the end of the day most of the yarding changed hands at the following quotations:— Sh'cp: Two-tooth wethers, lls. to 12s. (A.; f.m. ewes, Bs. 4d.; two-tooth ewes, 11b. 6d.; four-tooth cull ewes, 55.; on occount of If. 1?. Elder, 244 four and six-tooth and four and five-year ewes, 10s. 3d. and 10s. Ed.; 78 fat four-tooth wethers, 155.; 71 two-tooth ewes, lls. 6d.; 77 six-tooth wethers, lls. Cattle: Fat and forward heifers. £4 145.; hcifirs in calf, £4: weaner heifers, 375.; springing cows. £5 17s. 6d. to £8 155.; weaners (small), 15s. to 17s. 6d.; others, to 365.; heifers, 30s. to £3; weaner steers, £3.