LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2018, 27 March 1914, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES.

The Xew. Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd.. report:—At Apitl on Tuesday we hud A good entry of ehcep and cattle. Competition was not so;keen as at recent sales and several pens went out unsold. Quotations: Sheep—Medium lambs, Bs. to 9s. 3d.; forward lambs, lis. 9d.; good four-year ewes, 14s. 6d. to 14s. 9d.; .f.m. ewes, 12a. 4d.; aged ewes, Bs. Id.; mixed two-tooths, 14s. 6d.; aged rams, 125.;. two-tooth rams, 1} to-ljgns. Cattle: Weanere,.£rios. to £i l'te.; eighteen-months heifers, ..£3. to £3-7s. 6d.; yearling heifers, £2 75.'6 d .: eighteen-months steers, £3 7s. 6d. to £3 15s. 6d.; fltore cows, £2 10s. to £2 155.; forward cows, £4 10s.; three-year steeM. £6 Is. '

Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and C 0.,; Ltd., report having held their weekly. tale in, their Waipoua (Masterton) saleyards on Wednesday, when they offered a very big yarding of sheep of ■ all classes and a'good yarding' of cattle. Competition was not as keen as-of-late, 'owing no doubt* to tho class of-the entry-not-being, the best, but for all that there was practically a clearance at the following rates:—Fat ewes, Mo. 6d.; fat' wethers, IBs.; fat shorn. lambs, "133. 10d.; two-tooth wethers. 16s. to 16s. 5d.; two and four-tooth ewes, 16s.' 7d.; six and eight-tooth ewes, 15a. 5d.; two-tooth ewes, 175.; small, lie. 3d.; fat forward.ewes, 12s. 7d. to 135.: f.m. ewes, lis.. Td.. 12s. 6d.; to 13s. 4d.; s.m. ewes (poor condition), 9s. 7d., 10s., to 10s Ud.; f.m. ewes (poor, condition), 7a. Id.; cull ewes, 3s. lOd. to se. Id.; b.f. lambs, 9s. 6d.; woolly lambs, 9s. 2d.; shorn lambs, 7s. Bd. to'9s. 6d.; Shropshire rams, Zgns. to 2Jgns.; Lincoln rams, 24gn3.; three and four-year steers, £7 10s.; forward cows, £4 lfe l .; forward heifers, £4 12s. to £5 ss. s two-year, haters, £3 10s.; weaners, 155.. 195., to £1; good-, conditioned weaaiers, £1 15s. 6d.; eighteenmonths steers, £4 ss. 6d.j store co.ws, £2 155.; bulls, £5 12s. 6d.