LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs, Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report havng held a, very successful clearing sale on account of Messrs. M'Leavy Bros., at Ohau 011 Tuesday. The stocK tamo forward in good condition, was keenly competed for, aud the herd averaged £8 per head. Cows in milk made from £5 10s. to £7 2s. 6d.; August culvers. £8 to £11 55.; September calvers; £7 to £11; lato calvei's, £4 to £6 3s. 6d.; springing heifers, £6 ss. to £7; Hotetein bull, £12 lte.; weancrs, 335.; horses, £4 10s., £9, £17; sows ill Dig. £3, £4 Is.; store pigs. 215., 245. Sundries, etc., sold well.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., report on their Joltusonville sale as follows;—A heavy yarding of both 'bullocks and sheep came ionvoird, amongst the latter being some extra heavy wether? and eives, .heavily woolled, and- they realised record prices. All the entry was of prime quality, and sold readily at the following prices Prim© bullocks, £15, £15 2s. 6d., to £16 55.; lighter, £14 12s. 6d., £14 155.; light,' £14 to £14 2s. 6d.; extra, heavy wethers, 40s. 3d., '445. 6d., to 50s. 6d.; extra heavy ewes,'34a. 6d., 375. 3d., to 425.; primo heavy wethers, • 325. lid. to 335. 9(1.; primo heavy owes, 295. 6d. to 31s. 6d.; prime ewes. 28s. Id. to 295.; plain ewes, 235.; primo lambs, 19s. 6d. to 19s. 7d.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Pahiatua, report that they held a clearing Eale on account of Mr. Henry Stevens, at Pahiatua, ion July 26. Tlie cattle came forward in. fairly good order. Sales were made of the whole herd, tbo best price being £15 10s. for a particularly fine beast. The average for the herd was £6 15s. At the firm's sale at Pahiatua yards, on Tuesday, . there was a large entry of sheep and a larger one of cattle, lie sale was a keen one throughout The following gives an indication of the market values of stock sold by them;— Sheep; S.M. ewes in lamb (medium}, ,225. Bd.; fair, 25e. 3d.; good, -255. 9d.; hoggets, medium, lis. Bd.; woolly hoggots, medium. 13s. lCd.; good shorn hoggets, 15s. lid. to 16s. 3d.; fat ewes, 225. Id. to 275. lid.; fat hoggets. 15s. :to 20s. Cattle Two-yeai lo thiee-vcar'steers, £7 75.; three-year steers, mixed, £6 165.; two and a;lialf-ycar steers, £6 17s. to £6 19s. 6d.; /at cows, £8 fc,, £9 10s. to £10 10s.; fat steers, £10 2s. 6d.;. empty heifers, £2 17s. 6d. to £3 10s.; heifers in calf, £4; empty cows, £3 10s. to £6; wcaner hciferß, 16s. to 28s. We offered- two lots of dairy herdis, one lot-of 24 which averaged £6 9s. 6d., and another lot of 16 which averaged £7 6s.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency ...Company, Limited, report;—M. Eimitirigi, on llonday, we had a small yarding of sheep and a good yarding of cattle. Competition .was good, and wo Bold .the bulk of our entry at good values. Fair mixed -hoggets, 16s:; weaner heifers, 265. 9d. to 31s. 6d.; yearling steers,. £2; twenty-month empty'heifers. £2 155., £2 17s. fcd., £3 25. 6d.; fifteen-month steers, £3 125.; aged store cows, 345. to £2 lCs.; empty cows, £3 10s. 1 £4 Ss r £4 10s.; forward cows, £5 55., £5 65.; light fat cows, 18s. 6d.; springing heifers, £5 15s. to £6 ,35.; sow and litter, £5; slips,-225. 6d., 235. 1

BURNSIDE UAKKET. '-. By Telegraph.—Presß ioVjciation. V Duncdln, July 28.' At Bunnside toiday 172. fat cattle were yarded, the . entry including a few wclltinished '.bullocks, and. prices showed an advance, of' 15s. to £1 per head on last week's rates. Prime bullocks, £14 15s. to £16; extra prime, to £19 12s. 6d.; medium to good, £13 10s. to £14 -10s.; light and unfinished, £9 10s. to £11 55.; prime cows and heifers, £11 to £12 155.;, extra prime, to £14 55.; . medium to good, £8 10s. to £10.

Fat slioep: 2739 were penned.-: The entry I comprised a fair number of good wethers and several pens of hoary-weight ewes. The sale , opened at about Is. to 2s.' per head belmv last week's extreme prices, but values continued to firm throughout, graziers taking;:several lots of light wethers. Prime heavy -wethers,' 275. to 305.; heavy', to 40s. 9d.; medium to good, 235. 6d. to 255. 6d.; light, 21s. to 225. 6d.; prime.heavy ewes, 275. to 28s. 6d.; extra heavy, to 36a. 6d.; medium to good, 225. to 253. 6d.; light and aged, 15s. to 18s. Fat lambs: 1277 were penned. Freezing buyers were operating freely,' and a good sale resulted, prices boing is. to Is. 6d. better than last ,week's rates.. Prims heavy, 225. to. 245. 6d.; extra prime, to 335. 9d.; medium to good, 19s. to 21s. 6d.; light and unfinished, ( l4s. to 175.. 6d. ' ADDIWTON MARKET. '' Christajiurcli, July 23. •At the Addington live stock market the yar dings o£ stock were again on a moderate scale. Fat, cattle were firmer, ami there was a sharp..riso in fat lambs and fat sheep,, and from an exporter's point of view it was' the dearest market since the frozen meat trade started. Storosheop showed' improvement, especially wethers. Store'sheep,: Forward four and six-tooth wethers, 225. to 235.' lOd.; very. good four* and six-tooth wethers, 19s. 9d. to 21a. 6d.; two-tootli wethers, 16s. Id. to .21b. : good wether hoggets, 14s. 2d. to 16s. lCd.; fair wother hoggets, 12s. 3d. -to 13s. 9<L; inferior hoggets, IDs, to Us. 9d.; cull hoggets, fo. to 95.; good mixed hoggets, 14s. to 15s. 3d.; good ewe hoggets, 16s. 9d. to 19s. 6d.j inferior ewe hoggeto, lis. lOd. to 145.; good eound-mouthed owes, 16s. 9d. to 21s.;'.fail-ing-mouth* ewes, 13s. 6d. to 14s. 9d.; aged ewes, 4s. 6d. to 9s:. Fat- lambs: Prime tombs, 225. 6d. to 275. 6d.; medium lambs, 19s. to 225.; lighter, 12s. to 18s. 6d.; ' extra prime lambs,, to 3Cs. 3d. ' Fat sheep.: Extra prime -wethers, to 375. 3d.; .primo wethers, 245. to 31s. 9d.; others, 20s. to 235. 6d.; merino -wethers, 20s. "to 295. 7d;;- extra prime ewes, to 375. 6d.; -prime ewes, 225. 6d. to 305.; ,medium ewes, 18s. 6d. .to 225.; inferior ewes, 13s. 2d. to 18s. Fat cattle: Extra steers, to £27 15a., ordinary, steers, £9 to £12 10s.; extra.heifers, to'£18; ordinary, heifers, £6 to £9 55.; extra prime cows,, to £15 lCs.; ordinary cows, £5 17s. 6d. to £9 10s. Prices of beef, per. 1001b., 30s. to 445.;. extra, to 465. . Store caittle:. Yearlings,. 353. to £2 4s. 6d.; fifteen to eighteen-month, £2165. to £3 lis.; two-year stcors, £4 7s. 6a., to :£5; two-year heifers, £4 10s.; three-year steers, £6 ss. to £6 7s. ,6d.j three-year heifers, 'passed at £7 55.; dry cows, 275. to £6; dairy, cows, £3 ICS. to £11 15s. . • . . : ' Fat pigs: Exceptionally good baconert.,to £5 6s. 6d.; heavy baconers. 70s. to 765.; light baconers, 655. to 655. Price, per lb., 6d. to 6Jd. Heavy porkers, 425. to 485.; light: porkers,' 365. to 4Cs. Price, per lb„ 6d. to . 6}d. ■■*.■■ . Store pigfi: Medium stores, 255. to ' 305.; small stores, 18s. to 245.; weaners, 6s. for small, to 14s. for extra good. ADD SHIPS DEPARTURES— -;PSf 9 POHEEUA, s.s. (10 p.m.), 1175 tons," for. Greymouth. QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, s.s. (11 p.m.), 198 tons, Harvey, for'Foxton.'