LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3093, 25 May 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Vrißlil, Slcplumson and. Co., u<l.. Palnatun, report on tho weekly sale hold on Tuesday, as follows :-Wo subraitW a Rood yarding of sheep »n<l ciiUlc to tlic nvcrOKu attciidancn of buyers. The demand was unicli better thiin last wenk. iiiKl wo liavo to roport n, prooil Balo at tlio lolldwini! utiolationsi-Hheop: S.m. owes, in lunili, ]Bs. Id., 205., to 235. Id.: forward owes, 275. 3d. Cattle: Two-year Btccrs, £10 175.; Hiirinpini; cow», £11 Is.; store cows, ■■£6 6b. to £8; weaiier steers. £4 155.; m.e. weaners, f.2 ss.

Messrs. \\ r rii;lit, Rtcpliensoii and Co., Jitil., report, havinc lield si'very successful salts of dairy Fiock on Tuesday on account ot Jrrs. Daviiis, Kaotohe.. Uiuiixtvirko. Thcro was a. ln«,?o attendance of' buyers present, and e.)irit«d com petition resulted for all spring csilrcra showing quality and oondition, at prices ranprinp as follow:£9 155., £10, £11, £12 10a., £13 2s. 6d., to £15: iato calvers, ami aired cows, from £5 17s. 6(1, £6 17?. 61, £7 10s.. £3 10s., t<l £9 10s.: the -wholr. herd making the everafro price;of £9 12?. hi.; sprinjdmr heifers', £7 13s. to £8; weiuior calves, £5; Hereford hull, .£3O; porkers. 329.: weanei- pi.ee, 155.; unbroken epring-oart hos-ses, £20 to £21: liay seldiUE, -ElO 155.; boy'a nony, £13 2s. 6y.

Messrs. Wricht. Stephenson and Co.. Ud.. report havirig held their sale- at tho Colombo Road Bole yards, ifastcrton. on Wednesday, when they yarded a good entry of both sheep ami cattle, which was offered to a largo attendance of buyers. Bidding! was fairly brisk from start to llniah, and the lirm report havine sold all tho slirap iimlor tho hammer, and quitted most of till) cattle at tho following prices: —211 four-tooth wethers (uood quality), 325. 6d.; WO white fare mixed-sex lambs, I8j. ; 250 j-our-ycar owes, in lamb to S.K. rain, ZBs. Jd. Cattle: Three-year steers. £9 15s. to £10; two-year steers, £9 18s. 6d. to £10; eighteen to twcnty-monUi steers £8 to £8 65.; iiLt, bulloelis, £17 155.; dairy cows, due August. £7 5a., £8 95., to £9 His.-cighteeii-uioiiUt empty heifers, £4 15s. to £b; «ielitoou-monla licreiord built. £f 17s 6d. to £8.