LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 36, 6 November 1917, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

Meters. Daleely and Company, Limited, report as under on the sprinc cattle fair, held at Miller's Roa<l yards, Dannevirko, on November 2:-Thoro was a larse attendance of buyers from all jiarte of tho district.. Tho prices were a, liltlo low at tho opening of Iho sale, but, improved 8» Jt went on, some lines realisms good prices. Wβ had r soodJ yardinir. and practically everything waa sold under the baramor. Wo quote as foUows:-J-ycar-old Polled Angus bull; 50 guineas; 3-year-old steers in forward condition. £17; 3-year-old steer, .in fair oondition. £16; fat cows, £16 7s. 6d.; cows and calves in low condition, £10 5«.; store cows (old), £7; 2-ycar empty heifern, £9 5a.; yearling steers, £9'U «.; mixed eei yearlings, from £5 Bs. 6d. to £7 12b.; weanere (Jersey), £2 ?.». 6d. Messrs. Abraham and Williams report:--At, Kdldlnß on November 2 we had a, good rardlns of sheep and a small nntry or oattle. The market was rather easier for all classes of stopk, although most lines changed handitf Prime shorn fat. wethers brought. 385.; shorn fat. ewes, 355.; cull shorn ewes, 18s. Id.; mixed ae* cwen nnd lambs, 405.; extra ffood owe hoggets, 445.; good mixed hoggets. 345. to 365. 6d.; medium ditto, 30s. to 328. 6d.; Bmall and poqr dit.tq. 265. lA.\ shorn hoßsets, 285.; three and'three and a half-year steers, £14 123 ; dairy heifere. £10 to £13 55.; store cow? £7 15s. to £8 7b. 6d.: small yearling heifers, £3 10s. to £5 12s. 6d.; two-jear empty heifere. !A 10s.; yearling bulls, •■■ 17n. 6d. to £8.

Mr. Newton King (New Plymouth) quotes: Okiui. October' 31: Tearling to flftpenmonth heifers, £5 sb. to £6 6b.; yearling to fifteen-month steers, £7 12b. to £8 6j. 6d.; t.hroc and r half-year steers, £13 Bs. to £14 10?.; two and a half-year steers, £11 12s. M.; fat cows, £15 sa. to £15 10s.; bulls, £10 to £13; cows and calves, £8 to £13 2s. 6d.; empty two-year heifers, £6 18s. 6d. to £8; springing heifers, up to £9; four-tooth wethers, 33b. to 375.; hoggets, 283.; ewes and lambs. 265. 3d.