LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3057, 19 April 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

llessrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—At Levin, on Tuesday, Ave had a fair yarding of sheep and #v good ono of cattle: There was a. very little demand for sheep/ but cattle thowed an improvement on late sales. Quotations :->Bm»U lambs,. 15a.; fat cows, £11 75.. £11,185., £12, £12 10b, f £13, to £14 17s. 6d.; fat oowfl and heifers, £14; fat heifers, £11; forwaid cows. £6 Ss., £7 45., £7 Us., £8 12s. 6d„ to £9; three and a, half-year arid four-year bullocks, .£l<! 10s.; three-year bnllooks, £15; two and a, half-year bullooks, fit 14b.; three-year bnllooks (bad colours), £12 17s. 6d.; store cows, £5 10s. to £7 Js.i toilers in calf. £7 15s. -to £11 5«.; cows in milk, £9 155.; bulls, £11.

■ Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Taumarunui, report as followB: Our month- » sale "was held a.t Taumarunui on April 17, said was troll Attended. Wo had a good yarding:, some 3574 sheep and 325 head of cattle beinff pennod. Thero was ft ffood demand for cattle, all of which sold exempting a cpupJo of pens of wcanere. Sheep "woro also in fair demand, and practically -all yarded were disposed of at er.cellent prioes considering; the quality of those offered. Wo quote:—Two and fourtooth wothcra (ordinary), 275. 9d.; cull ■wethers, 16s. Id. ajid 175.; s.m. owes in lambs, 245.; aged ditto, 16s. 9d.; failing- • mouth ewes, 14s. 4d., 15s. 6d.; cull ewes and lambs . (ail counted), Bs. 6d.; store lambs, 13s. 6d., 14s. 2d., 155.; cull l&mbF, Be. 4d., 9b. 6d.; three and a half-year steers, £15, £17 55.; two aoid a half-year steers, £10 7s. 6d., £12 7h. 6d.; small cows and calves, £J1 7e. 6d.; twenty-month steers, £B 17s. 6d., £B lfig.j 15-month ditto, £8 23. 6d.j two-year heifers in calf, £6, £9; 20-month ditto, £7 55.; 18-month ditto (small), £6 10s.; weaner steers, £4 165., £5 55.; bust-fed weaner heifers, £5: meaner heifera (medium),. £3 125., £4, £4 10s.: mired weaners, £3 165., £3 19s. 6d. ; small and inferior ditto, £2 175., £2 18s., £3 Is, Messrs. Wright. vStepheiisou, and Co., P&hiatua, repojt a fair yarding at the weekly «fle on Tuesday. The entry of sheep consisted mostly of lambs, which w ; ere in good demand, and the cattle yarded woro of poor quality, and did not meet with any-competition. We quote as follows:■M.S. .shorn lambs, 12s. 6d. to' lfls.- m.a weaner calves, £3 to £A 145.; weaner heifers, £2 165.; wearier bulls, £3 7s. 6d.; store cows (low oondition), £A r Is. to £4 10s.