LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 70, 15 December 1917, Page 12

LIVE STOCK SALES

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:-At Paimerston North on December 13. we had a pood ynrdiw-of both cattle and sheep, and a fair attendance of buyers. Cows, all classes sold well, other classes of cattle were easier. Prices for ehecp declined somewhat. Businesß was transacted at the following rates :-Fat cows. £13 10b.; fat and forward cows. £10 3b. to £10 18s.; dairy cows, £10 Wβ. to £11 10.9 ■ fresh-conditioned cows. £8 10s. to £8 15s'.'; smilj store cows,. £6 to £7 2? 6d.; store heifers, £6 2s. 6A.; i l"|"<=r». -£3 17s. to £4 10s.; two-year B.H. bull, £13 10s.-. 15month steers, M 10s.: 10-month heifers, £5 5s to £5 10s.; fat and forward shorn ewes, 275. Id.; fat and forward shorn wethers, 28s • four and six-tooth wethers, 275.; miwd-age crossbred wethers, 25e.; deed woolly store ewes. 255.; f.m. shorn store ow-s. 16s. to Ws.; mixed shorn hotels. 2b; cull ewes, 9b.; cull ewes and lambs. 265. M: medium lambs, 10s. lid.: small ditto, sß ifesrs Dalgety-and Co., Ltd., Paimerston North, report havinir a very cood yarding of cattle at their Palmerston Korth sale on Thursday. A large number chnnKod hand" awl Prices are as bellow■.-M xcd £2 lie.: weanere, £3; Rood store IoZ £5 6b. to £6 155.; empty cows £7, £7 2b 6d to £8; fonvard cows, £9 16a. j lighttet cpws. £3'l7s. 60.: heifers in milk £6 10s.; springing heifers, to, £11 7s M., twenty-month steers, £8 17s. 6d., bulls, £12 15s. to £13 12a. «d.