LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2988, 27 January 1917, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile • Agency Co., Ltd., report:—At Masterton on' Wednesday we had only a small entry, of sheep, which we sold -under the hammer at the. following rates:—Mixed aged- ewes, '275. 10d.; fat ewes, 335.; w.f. ewe lambs, 205.'3d.. : ■ The Wairarapa-. Farmers' Co-operattvo Kseociation, Ltd.,' report on their supplementary cattle •fair-, at .Eketahuna, on Thursday s as undor bullocks, £16 15s. to £16 455. j, three-year steers, ■ £13 i2s, v t6' £14.25.'6 d.; two. and a half-year etoors,'£l2,'.£l2'2s. 6d., £12 155., £12 165., and, £12 18s.;''and-a bad coloured lot, £10 7s: : 6d.; fifteen-months steers, £9 ss. to £10; jeariing and -nfteen-inonthe Holstein' steers,"-: £6.- ss. to ■ £7' 7s: 6d.; good quality, / yearling steers, £10 ss. 6d.; yearling heifers,- £9 6a. 6d.; fat and forward cows, £11 9s. 6d.; £12, £12 75., £12 9s.;' store oowß','£9 10s. to £10. 45.; fat cows, .£l2 up • to £15 13s. 6d. for extra-heavy-weights. t Messrs. Dalgety and , Co., Ltd., , Palmers-, ton North, report having had a very good ■ entry .of both sheep and cattle at their Palmerston North sale on .Thursday. Small shorn lambs,; 10s. to 'Us. 3d.;'me- 1 dium shorn lambs,'' : l2s..'3d., 13s. 4d.,' 13s.' li.,' 145...1 d., 145.-3d.:-shorn rape lambs, 16s. 7d. to 18s. 3d.;', fat. and forward woolly lambs; 21s. to 225. 9d.; mixed-age ewes, to 26e." 4d.; four-tooth,"to four-year ewes, 295. 2d.; two-tooth wethers, 295. 6d. to 325. 3d.; two-tooth ewes, 355. 9d.; .heavy fat ewes, 38s. ,to-38s. 3d. Cattle: Kf teen-months heiJers, £5; light fat.heifers, lOgns.; forward; "cows, £9; springing heifers, £9, £11155.,'t0 . £12.;.: .Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report- 'On their sale at Upper Hutt on Thursday: : -emall, two-tooth wethers, -255. 9d.;> medium four-and ilve-year ewes, 275. M.' , small fat ewes, 255. 6d.: cull lambs , , 13s. 6d., 145.; cull ewes, Us. 2d.; prime fat cows ,to £13 55.; lighter, to £10 145.; forward cows, £7, £9/ £10 35.; store cows-, £4 and £6 35.; dairy cows in profit. £10, £12, to £13; springing cows, to £17 10s.; cows and calves, £7 25., £9; three-year steers, £11 18s.: yearling steers, £6' Bs.: yearling bulls, £3"125.; two-year bulls, £7 7s. 6d.; empty heifers, £6, £6 2s. 6d., £8; weaners, £2 10s. 6d. '

SOUTHERN , GRAIN MARKET. ' ' ' Christchurch, January 25. There has been a fair amount of wheat offering, but in the uncertainty regarding the price little business has been done. It is reported that a tew stiaigntout sales have taken place at from ss. 6d. to ss. 9d. Country stations and others ore nominally at ss. 6d., and' are subject to adjustmen i£ a price is fixed by the Government. Very few oats are offering, an the prices are unchanged. Barley is now beginning; to come forward, but the quality varies considerably, ranging from feed to prime malting. The latter -is selling at from. 4s. to 4s. 3d., and me r dium quality and feed lines are at lower rates. Owing to the farmers being busy with the grain harvest there is a much smaller quantity of 'grars seed offering, and the scarcity of. good samples has made this Quality a litllo firmer. More attention is being paid to 201b. and 231b. seed, which is selling at from 2s. 6d. to 3s. Id.; under 201b. is at 2?. upwards. Some business has been done in new oatsheaf, sales having been made at from £3 ss. to £3 10s. for tally delivery, and £3 for forward' delivery, at country stations.