LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2551, 27 August 1915, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

: Tie New Zealand loan end •Mercantile . tlgency Company,^Limited;,report:—At our lieual weekly stook ■ sale, held' at> Levin: on i . ■Wednesday, we offered e. medium; yarding: ■ of caiitlo and a fair clearance was made • .at tile following'prices:—Light ifat"caws,' £6 ,55.; forward- cows, £4 19s. to '£5 4s;;' : t -aged store cows, :£2 15s. to £3 10sJ'; 1 eighteem-montli empty heifers, £3 Is. to .s . £3 65.; yearling bulls', £2 135.; weaner pigs, - ; 125. : to 12a. 6d.; fat porkers,. 285., 305., 325., 1 095.; £2 2e. 6d. ' The New Zealand' Loan. and Mercantile '■* 'Agency Cbmpany, Ltd., report:—At Himi- t tongi, on Monday, we lad a very heavy, t yarding of cattle. Young cattle were dull, « <xther classes selling at lat® rates. Year c ling Holstein heifers, 375. 6d;, £2; twenty- « - month steers,. £5. £5 55.; S.H. cows in calf 3 to HIT. bull, £5 17s. 6d.; two-year empty i E.H. heifers, £3 165.; aged store cows, £2 3 17s. 6d.: 6tore cows, £4,. £4 95., £4 ICe.; 1 •forward co",re, £5 to £6;. light fat cows, t £7 Is., £7 65.; dairy cows, £6.78.,'£6; good Holstein dairy cows, £8 105.,' £12 ss.;epriug i heifers, £5, £5 15s„ to £7.. At Eaumai, on C

Tuesday, we had only a email yardlmr, 1 which met with, keen competition at good values. - Medium hoggets, 18s. Sd.; fat wethors, 29a. 3d.; yearling heifers, £2 is.; forward cows; £5 10s. to £6 7s. \ Messrs. W. and G. Turnbull and Co., Ltd., - report having held their neua-l weekly sale r in their Waipoua, (ilasterlon) sale yards • on Wednesday. A'goo'di yarding, of sheep and. cattle came forward, far above fld- > vertiecd numbers, and met ivith keen com- - petition, practically c, total clearance being > made at the following prices:—Fat wethers, , 30s„ ,325., -to '345.; fat ewes, 225. 6d„ 22e. 10d„ 1 233., to 28s. 6d.; fat ewes ftnd wethers,'24s. - 2d.; fat hoggets, 39a. (on account of. Bel- •' gian Fund); two-tooth eiwes and wethers, , 2te.' 3d. to 21s. 6<L; woolly hoggets, good, 21s. 3d. to 225. 6d.; medium, 15s. 4d., 175., to ' ISs.; f.uj. cavc6 in lamb, 18s. 3d. to 205.; > three-year steers, £6 lte.; fat three-year j steers, £10 2s. 6d.; fat heifere, £7 Bs. 6d.; two-year steers, £3 7s. id. to £4 55.; twoyear steers and heifers, £4 Is.; P.A. cows' 1 in calf to Hereford bull, £4 65.; yearling • steers and heifers, 335, to 425. 6d.; dairy . cows, £5, £5 12s. 6d., £8 to £9 12s. 6d.; springing heifers, £3 56. Wo also sold, on account Belgian- Belief Fund, two fat ; hoggets, donated by the Misses Perry, "Sulphur Wells," which, realised' £6 Bs. ITcesra. Dalgety and. i Company, Limited, report having held their visual weekly sale in Levin. sale yards on. Wednesday. Thero • ."was a good, yarding of sheep and. heavy yarding of cattle. Bidding was not so brisk as at the two last previous eales, excepting for fat sheep, whcili met a. very keen market. Although a, number of nnos of ©tore sheep and cattle were passed at (.auction at the end of * the day we succeedled,in; quitting most of the lots at 'satis-, ' 'factory rates 'by private sale.. The .prin- - icipal eales were.';as under:—Croesbred fat : wethers, 325. 6d. ,to'33s. ,9d.; halfbred fat -'-wethers, 30s. 2d.; ..primerfet ewes, 305.; fat ewes',- 275.- t0,285. 3d.; light- : weight fat cowf?, £6 76.'.t0 £7.65.; forward ! empty cows,' £4 12s.\ to •£5 '165.; forward ; empty ewes, 21s. • 6d.; medium two-tooth 'wethers,. \ 235. . 3d.; \ medium-conditioned 'empty ewes, 18s.; cull ewes, "13s. to I*6. 9d.' Cattle: Weaiier • heifers, 325. 6d. : to ! 37si' 6d;; 1 medium-conditioned ■ three-year •steers, £8 17(5." 6d.; two-year :P.*A. steers, £7 , 55.; springing heifers, £5 Is. to £7 12s. 6a. • -Ifessiis. 'Abraham and: Williams, Ltd., ' Report that at' their ' Mangahyards on : Tuesday they -had;a small entry, of shc&p iand.d large ono--of* cattle. Sheep were 'easier, ana- cattle,' with-the exception of 'a/few lines, were dragging. •. .The follow.ing.ftre some of the sales .effected:— -Sheep: ;S4 ; four-tooth wethers, 295. 6d.;' s.m. e\ves 'in lamb', 23s.'Id. Cattle": Account of Mr. Guy Williame, 20 empty,-Hereford cowa £5 Is.j s'"Hereford cows in calf, .£5 2e. W..; 2 cows,' £4; 16 weaner Hereford steers, £3 135.; 16 .weaner Hereford heifers, -£2 15s. '6d. On '• account 1 of sundry, vendors:— Heifers, '£4 75..-6d.-,to £5 lOe.j, stcere. four at £3 125.,'-two. at £4 165., 16; at £4 125., fivo !at -£6 ; :ls.,'seven-at ;£6 -7fi.; cull cows in ca.K. •£3 •: to/ £4' 10s.; weaners. • 20s. to £2; yearlings, £2,t0 £3 17s. 6d.; forward cowa, £4 15s. 6d.; empty cows, £2 to £4 12s. 6d.; - dairy • heifers, six at £6 35.; dairy two fit £5 2s. 6d.»-'two at £6 10s. On account of Mr. W. M'Leod-Heifers at drop, £6 15s. to £8, averaging £7 7s. per head. On account of Mr.'■ A. Seivera, 22. dairy cows,' £4 .106.. to £10 10s., averaging £7 per head.