LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 31 July 1915, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

' Messrs. Dalecty aiul Company, Ltd.,Mmerston North, report having licl'ia jJ'E" Jy succossful sale oil account of Air. w. i. Bell, ol Eangiol>u t at Ins homestead on, AVednesdny. Bidding throughout was most spirited. Quotations: A Imo of 308 nctlicrs realised 2£s. 4d. Sheep: Forward cmptj ewes, 21s. 10d.; mixed hoggets, 17s. Cattle Bullocks, £10; yearling balls, &> Zs.: Heifers, £3 10a to £4 145.; store cows. £2 1Z»-, yearling heifers, 365. to £2 18s.; steers, £4 9s. ilorees: Half-draught Beldiugs, £39, £40; mares, £27; oged shatter, £-3. The New Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agency Company, I/td., TCp°i"t:. At Ita-Ti-wai oil Tuesday wo had n. fair cntrj, which met a, ready saw «t good Mixed age ewes in lamb, 20s. 3d.; foiward. ivethers, 28s. 3d., 255. 7d.; fat.wctliers, ate. Id.; heifers in rail, £4 45.; springing lieifei's, £5 165., £6 2s. 6d. The New Zealand Loan and ItocaTitilo Agency Coinp&ny» Ltd.. report:—Oni Tuesday wo held & sale- of <l©-iry stock oil account of Mr. J. J. 'Date. Aolsautorc. Best cows sold at from £7, £9, to £15 average cows' £5 to £7; 'low-conditioned <ina backward cows, £4 to' £5; yearling heifers, 30s. to £2; twenty-months heifers, £2 155.; sows, £2 .to £5; slips, 15s. 6d. to 18s.; forward -owes, 20s. 9d. , x .. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:-On Wednesday we held a clearing sale of dairy 6tock at our Himatangi yards on account' of -Mr. Walter Kilsby, Himatangl. Competition was keen, and sustained throughout with the result that we have to report one of the most satisfactory dairy sales wo have held this season. Tho cows were offered in. three herds; 53 hand-milk-ed cows averaged £7 17s. 6d. The machinemilked herd of 46 cows averaged £8 55., and 35 sccond calvers averaged £6 165., tho whole herd of 134 cows averaging £7 14s. Our best prices were £14, £14 10s., and £15. The New Zealand. Loaal and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report:—At Pal-' merston North on Thursday we Jui-d a good entry of both sheep .and caittlc. Competition was good throughout, and wo quitted the whole "of our entry at auction. o,t good values. Mixed hoggets, 15s. 3d.; empty, owes. 16s. Cd.;, forward ewes, and wethers, 245. 3d.; f.m. ewes, iu;!ainb to Cheviot rams, 205.; f.m. ewes, in lamb to .Southdown rams, 225.; .four-year owes, in lamb to Itomney rams, 245. Id.; yearling steers.. £2 95.; empty eighteen-months heifers, £2 155., £3 25.: heifers in calf, £3 165.: store cow?, £2, £2 10s„ £4, £4 10s.: forward cows, £5, £5 te„ £5 95.; fat cows, £6 15s„ £7 6s„ £7 10s.. £9 55.; dairy cows, £4 45., £4 55., to £6 17s. 6d.