LIVE STOCK SALES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES.

Messrs. Abraham and Ltd., report:~iit Palmorston North on Thursday we offered a good yarding of both sheep ?? cattle, • the bulk of. which sold under the hammer as follows:—S.m. ewes, in lamb, 13s. to 13a. fid.; mixed two-tooths, 13s. fat ond forward wethers, i. i ■' rapo lanibs,--Us. 2d. to lis. Ed.; cull lambs, 6s. 3d.; best weaher steers, £1 17s. to £2 25.; others. £1 4s. 6d. to £1 10s.; weaker heifers, £1 10s. to £1 15s. 6d.: mired weaners, '£1 Is. to £1 7s. 6d.: fat cows, £6 Ids.; to £7; store cows, £3 13.3. to £4 -jUs.;. springing covrs,.£S lZs. to £8 2s. od. i. ciehtecn-mo-qths heifers, in calf, £4; two-year- steer's, £5' 13s.;i three-year steers, £7 7s.';/,buUs, £4 17s. 6d.; yearling bulls, £2 Bs. to £3 Is. . Messrs. Abraham and TValliamfl, Ltd., Pahiatua, report on their Pongarou. stock: sale as follows:—We had a very large yarding of .cattle and sheep, and report 1 a total clearance, most lines selling under tlio hammer. There was a remarkably good sale for young cattle, in several instances vendors obtaining 10s. to 15s. above their ■reserves. Principal sales arc as -under -Sij-tootli and. f.f.m. ewes, lis. 7d.; four and five-year ewes, Ua. M; to Us. HM.-j fat and forward four-year ewes,\'Ms:;-3d-j-ftm; cwosr 9s. lid. to. 10s.' 7d.:-muedrage ewes, 13s. to 1.39.' 3d.;, mixed two-tooths, 12s. 4d.;, twotootli wethers,.. 17s. 10d.; miiid lambs, It,.' sd„ 7r 6d., to 7s. 9d.; f.f.m.', Romney rams, 95., 10s. Ed., to 1125.: springing heifers, £7 55.; eighteen-months steers, £4 '19s. to £5 55.,--three and three an' 4 a half-year steers. £4 18s. 6d„ £5 7s. 6d.,,t0 £6 Us.';' two And a half-year steers.- £6; fat cows, £S la. 6d. to £5 lte.

' Messrs. DaJgety/ and • Co., Ltd.. report having held their st-qck Eale at Palmerston North on March ,26, when they offered a fair yarding of *otock. Quotitions:' Southdown lambs. 12s. 4d.; small shorn lambs, Bs. Id.; small two-tooth wethers. 14s. lid.; woolly medium lambs, 9s. Id,-, lambs,. 15s. lid. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having held' their weekly sale at Solway on Wednesday, when there was a good yarding of-stock of which a total clearance was A particularly nice line of woolly wether iambs offered on account o! Messrs. Armstrong Bros, realised 14s. Other, prices were Sheep: Two-tooth wetheTS. 15s. lid.; fat ewes, 14s. ,4d„ 14s. 7d.; to 15s. 3d. mixed aged ewes, 13s. 3d.; f.m. ewes, "10s. 9d.; good woolly wether lambs,' 14e.;.db. ewe 1 lambs, lis. <9d.; do. wether lambs, lis. 2d.; mixed-sex 'lambs, 9s. 2d.; Shropshire rams, lisms. Cattle: ■ liixci. weanors, .£1 <6.; fat bullocks, £10. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report;—At Palmerston North onvThursday we had a good-entry .of sheep and cattle. There was a good demand, and -very little went out unsold. Quotations:—Sheep: Forward shorn lambs, 12s. 7d,: woolly lambs, 12s.'; small lambs, 6s. to 7i=.; s.m. ewes. 10s. 9d.'to 12s. 2d.; Border Leicester rams.. ljgne. •to 2gns. Cattle: Wcancrs (small), 195.; medium weaners, £1,55. to £1 10s.; weaner steers. £1-189.: weaner heifers (good), £2 Is.; aged cows, £1 lte. to £M9s.; low-condition cows. £2 6s. "to £2 12s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 155.; fat cows. £6: bulls, £4 12s. 6d. to £5 ss.