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LIVE STOCK SALES.

Jlesere. Dalgcty naid Co,, Md„ Palmerston North, report havinß hold their annual spring cattlo fair 011 Wednesday, November 13, when tliey offered 750 lic&d of various clneees of cattlo to a large and representative attendance of buyers. The tone of the market was uood right throughout tho sale, and tho majority of the yarding found buyers, at prices in every iiieUuico lidglily satisfactory to venxiors. Quotations:—Yearling dairy heifers, Shorthorns, £2 17& 6d., £2 19s. Cd.; two-yc<lr dairy heifers, £4 2s, 6d„ £4 ss. 6d„ £4 8s„ £4 Bs. 6d.; yearldnff Polled Angus heifers, £3 17a.; ilfteen to eislitecn-itiontlia eteew, £3 2s. 6d'. to £3 17.3.; two-ycor steers, £5 to £5 125., for good quality cattle; bulls, £5 to £5 to 6d.; co.vs and calves, £3 lite. 6d. to £4 195.; empty cows, £2 155., £3 4b, £3 18s„ £3 195.; tliree-yeoir rough steers, to £6 45.; thfee and a half-year tteera, to £6 7s. 6d. Special lines—Oll account of ile©srß. Wh'itmore Bros; 55 three and a half-year bullocks, £7 2s. 6d.; on account of Captain J. i). E. Hewitt; 70 four-year bullocks, £8. In eonjunction with tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency CO.—Qll accottiit of Mr. J. Linklatcr: 17 three and a half-year Polled Angus bullocks, £6 14s. 6d.; 36 three and a half-year Hereford bullocks, £7 £s.; on account of Mr. P. A. M'Hardy; 65 three and a half-year bullocks, £7. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report;— At our Waverley sole to-day w.o had a small yarding of sheep and o.tttle. There was a dull inquiry, the bulk of the stuff being passed at auction, though w6 quitted practically everything beffcre the close of the day. We quote;— Medium hoggets, 155.; two-year steers, £5 55.; yearling steers, £3 to £3 4s. 6d.; yearling heifers, £2 165., £3, £3 125., £3 135.; Jei'Eey-cro6S, £4 55,; two-year heifers, £4 to £4 10s.; store cows, £3 lis. to £4; bulls, £4 to £4 ?s,; yearling bulls, £3 to £4 7s. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., and Reduced,,, report:— At Palmereton on Thursday wb had a medium entry of sheep and cattle'," which sold at late rates. We quote:—Light fat shorn cwe6, 12s. 4d. to 13s. 7d.; shorn, ewes and lambs, 13s. 6d.'; light woolly :ewes and lambs, 215.; fat ew'ej (woolly), 16s. llu.; shorn store ewes, 7s. 7d. , Cattle: Store cows, £3 15s. 6d. -to' £3 17s. 6d.; cows in milk, £5 15s. to £8 .55.; light fat heifers, £5 63.; two-year. .eteow, '£5 Is.; yeaning Jersey-Holstein hulls, 3'7s. 6d. to £3 25.-6 d.; two-year Jersey bulls, to £7 iOs. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At our weekly l'almeretoii North sale on November 14, we had a sinall entry of sheep and a good; yarding of cattle.' Sheep were hard to. quit, owing to owners' reserves being father high. Cattle sold readily. We .quote:—Sheop.: -Mixed shorn hoggets, 13s. '3d. to 14a. Cattle; Fat coyrs, £5, ,£5 75., to £6 i7s, 6d.; eighteen-montihs steers, £3 ICe. to £4 Os. 6d. ;.'.ejshteefl-sibnths heifers, £3 155., £4 75., to £4 155.; yearling bulls, 345. to £4 Us,; store cows, £3 to £3; 12s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 ;-(!oWs. and calves, £4 3s. 6d.; 'dairy cows, £4 to £5. ■ Messrs. Abraham awl Williams, Ltd., re* port as follows on the Eaumai sale:—At I our monthly sale on November 12 no sheep camc,,-forward, but we' yarded a good number "of cattle, wh-icli met with a keen de* inand, very little going 01.1t unsold. We quote;:'Sinall yea-rlinfr steers, £2 sl2g.'-6a;, £2 165., to £2 17s. 6d.{..yearling heifers,-£3: Oa. 6d„ £3 4g„ to £3',fe; 64.;. well-bred Jersey cighteen-monthSi,h®ifet?s. "fdr ; ' ward cows, £4, £4 6a J ., 't6. -, £4 123.' 6d.;; fat heifers, £6; store eq ; ws, v26s.i . cows and calves, £4 lis.; weanera,'?'23s.;- bulls, £3,t0 £4 175.; dairy cows, £4 lfe: to £6. Feilding Stock Salo.—Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd.. report a fair entry -of sheep.and cattle. They quote: Yearling heifers, £3 125.; store ooffft to £3 17s, id,;, medium'.fat cows, £5 125.; bulls, £3 15s.' to £5 .ss, ;• medium two-year stoers, £4 :103.; three-year steers, £6 3e.; mixed hoggets, 14s.- 6d,. to 155.; mixed two-toothfi, 12s, 4d.; .two-tpoth. ewes, 13s. 7d.; empty forward owes, 153. Bd.;. fat owes, £1 os.'4d.; ewes and lambe',- 175.to ; £1 Is., and £1 £s. '

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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1599, 16 November 1912, Page 8

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LIVE STOCK SALES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1599, 16 November 1912, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1599, 16 November 1912, Page 8

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