LIVE STOCK BALES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1879, 13 October 1913, Page 10

LIVE STOCK BALES

Messrs., Dalgety and Company, Limited, report having held their fortnightly ealo in their Levin yards on Friday. A good yarding of both 6hcep and cattlo.camo forward, j but owing to the day being rough and Doisteroa3 buyers did not attend in tho usual numbers, and tho solo was a dragging one, especially in cattle—a number of pens being turned out unsqld. The principal aslj-s wero as under—Medium hoggets. 135.; forward wethers, in wool, £1 Is. Bd.; light woolly fat wethers, £1 3s. Id. to £1 3a. 9d.; shorn, fat wethers, 18s. Cattle: Two-year empty heifers, £4 55.; two-vear heifers in milk, £3 18s.; yearling steers, £3 6s. 6d.; eightcon-month P.A., mixed sex,'£4 35.; springing heifers, small, £4 ss. to £5; storo cows, £2 lis.; fat bullocks. £8 15s. to £9 155.; light fat cows, £4 10s. to £5.

Messrs. Dalgoty and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having a small entry of sheep and a, good yarding of cattlo at their Feilding spring cattle sale on Friday. Tho stock sold as below:—Sheep: Fair mixed hoggets, 135.; good mixed "hogpets, 18s. lOti.; fat owes, £1 6«. Cattle: Two and a half-year Gteera, £5 4?.; twoyear steer. 1 ?, £3 lis.. £3 13s. 6d.. £4 10s.; yearling steers. £2 10?. 6d., £3, £3 95.: twoyear heifers, £3 12s. 6d., £3 14i=. 6d.. £-3 lis.; "vwrling heifers. £2 06. 6d.. £2 3s. 6d„ £3; empty heifers, £3 10s.. £3 15*.; ftore rows, .£3 lis. 6d.; yearling bulls, £2 7s. to £6. The New Zealand and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At tho Feilding cattle fair, on Friday, wo yarded, just on SCO head of cattle, and have .to report a. very satisfactory clcarancc,» priccs in most casts, however, being in favour of buyers. A nnall entry of sheep sold well. Quotations: Sheep—Ewe lio'ggotfl. 17s. 4d.; ewes, with lambs at foot, £1 Bs. Gd. Cattle-Yearling steers, small, £2 Is. to £2 65.; yearling Btcors, £2 195.; two-year heifers, rough, £2 193,; two-year heifers, £3 9h., £3 13d., to £4; two and two and a half-year etocrs, good, £5 65.; two and a half-year stcera, rough, £4 18s.; two and a half and three-/ year 6tcer3, £5 7s. to £5 lCs.; throe-year steers, £6 65.; forward three and a half--1 year bullock's, on account of W. E. L. Banks, £7 16s;; cows in calf. £3 lis.; store cows, £3 35.; forward cowo, £4 Is. Tho company also report:—At Apiti. on Tuesday, we had a small entry of sheep and a fair yarding of cattle, all lines meeting with a ready sale at lato ratetf. Mixed hoggets, 12s. lOd.; call hoggets, Bs.; forward wethers, £i 2s.;'eighteen-month heifers, £2 17a. 6d.; yearling heifers, small, £2 os. 6d.; small yearling steers, £1 lis.; yearling Fleers, £2 16=?., £2 18s.; fifteon-month steers, £3 lis.; twenty-month steers. £4 Is.: twoyear Hbroford heifeTs, £4 53.; storo cows, £2; empty forward cows. £3 lie., £4, £4 3a.:

cow? and calves, £4 2e. 6d.; good sprineinff cowe, £6 10b. to £8.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Levin, on Friday, wo offered a largo yarding of cattle. Very little # domaud. existed, and a number of lin<23 failed to change hands. A smaller entry of sheep than, usual met with spirited competition, and sales were effected at the following quotations:—Wether hoggeto, 165.; black-faced mixed hoggets 14s. 6d.; ewes and lambs, £1 45.; forward ewes, 163. 7d.; fat owes, £1 6s. 4d.; aged, ewes with lambs, 17s. 3d.; ehorii fat ewes, 17s. 9d. to £1 Is.; yearling hoifers, £2 3s. to £2 fe.; eighteenmouth hoifers, £3 35.; wcanor heifers, 375. 6d.; weaner steers, 375. 6d.; yearling 6teers, £2 10a. to £3 Is.; springing heifers, £4 10s. to £5 10s.: bulls, £2 lCs. to £6; pedigree Jersey bull, £15 155.; storo cows, £2 Is. to £3' os.