LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2977, 15 January 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and> Xfercantilo Agency 00., Ltd., Palnierston' North, report:—At Pal-morston North on Thursday we had a good yarding of oattle. Competition for. cattle, however, was not keen', and prices for most of the pens, with the exception of young cattle and weaners, showed, a decline on recent rates. Wo quote:—Small weaners, £2 10s., £2 ■ 155.; 16-month, discoloured steers, £6 10s.; store cows, £6 10s.; fat cows, £10 7s. 6d.; cows and calveß, £11 65.; bullocks, £15 10s.; potter bulls, £9. j The New Zealand Loan and llorcantilo Agenoy Co., Ltd., report:—Wo held our usual weekly sole at Eketahuna on Friday, when wo had only a small ontry of sheep. Bidding was not very animated, though, there was a good demand for good young ewes'and wethers. Wo quote:—2,tooth.ewes. 335. 6d.; 2,-tooth wethers, 31s. . Id., At Pong&roa, on Thursday we had a, good entry of sheep and a fair one of cattle. There was a large attendance of buyers, and bidding was spirited throughout the sale. Owing to the vendors' reserves being on the high side, a number of lines were passed in, but we ' made a fair clearance at the following i, rates :r-4-tootlr wethers. 365.; 2-tooth wethers, 30s. 3d. t0.315. 9d.; small 2-tooth ewes, 28s. 7d.;- 18-month steers, £5 17s. 6d.; 18month heifers, £6 15s. ;■. forward store heifers. £8 10s. to £10 2s. 6d.; bulls, to -.; £3 Bs. ■ • .'..«;" . • The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operativo Association, Ltd., stock department, resort that at their first sale for the new year on Friday they offered a large yarding: of eheep and cattle •to a very good attendance. Bidding at auction was .animated. A. total- clearance, with the exception of one line of steers, was effected: • Pnces:—Fat ewes, 325. to 335.; 2-tooth •wethers. 265., 295. to 305.; small 2-tooth ewes, 295.;. woolly lambs, £1 Is.; fat cowsmade £11, £11- 55.. £11 155., £12 10s. to £13 7s. 6d.; fat heifers. £11 55., £12. £12 155.; forward cowa, £9, £9 ss„ £9 15s„ £10 ss. to £10 155.; 2-year steers, £li. £11 &>.; 18-months, £7 165.; calves, £2 18s., £3, £3 10s. to £5; extra good stuff, 'bulls, £6 10s. up to £10 35.; nigs, weaners, 12s. 60. to 155.; porkers, 265. Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Palmerston North, report'having a good entry of sheep and a small entry of cattle at their Feilding sale on Friday last. Bidding for eheep was fairly keen, and tho majority changed hands. Small -2-tooth wethers.. 245. Id.; small 2-tooth ewes, 28s. 5d.; medium.. 2-tooth wethers. 275. Sd.; mixed 2-tooths, 31s. 3d!; aged ewes, 225.; mixed woolly lambs, to 19s. ■•" ??- i „7 er ?' * air shorn, blackface lambs, 18s. 7d.; fat lambs, 245.; fat ewes, 295. 6d., 31s. 4d to 325.; light fat wethers. 335„ 345., 355. 6a.;'small mixed weaners, £3; store cows, £7 10s.

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