LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 89, 9 January 1919, Page 8

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report that at their Levin yards on Tuesday they offered a. fajr entry of sheep and cattle, and have to report a clearance at the following prices :-Ueht fat 2-tooth ewes and wethers, 27e.; woolly fat hoggets, 35b. 7d • fat and forward, ewes, 235. Bd.; fat larabfl (light), 18s. 2d.; 4-tootu wethers, 265. 4a.; reixed ser 2-toptha. 255. 2d.; good yearling steera, £5 11b. to' £7 Is.; email ditto £3 2a.; store cowb, £5; cow and calf, £9 10e.; small vealer, 275. 6t1.; Heifer, r.w.b., £4. The Wairarapa ' Farmers Co-opera "vo Association, Limited, stock department, Pah'iatua. report on the first Bale of the year held in Mangauao yards, β-i follows: A fair entry of sheep and a good yardine of cattle- -were offered to a fair; attendance oj tho public. The sheep entry consisted chiefly of wethers, all lines of which changed hands at • fairly good prices. In cattle'wo yarded somo exceptionally good lines of 15-month steers; these failed to change hands at auction, but we -were isuccessful in quitting same immediately after the sale by private treaty. Ordinary sorts of cattle were practically neglected. We report'the following salea:-34 small 2-tooth wethers, 15b. Id • 10 do., 18a. 9(1.; 18 do., Z13.; 73 do., 21e. 7d.; •51 do.. 23a.; 195 do., 2os; 18 do., 255. 6d.i.ltt 4-tooth wethere, 275. IOd.; 13 do 29a. 6d.; 7 do., 30s. Id.;; 17 forward rnvee, 235. 9d.: 18 yearling steers (medium). £6 15a.; 6 fat cowb. £10 to £11 65.; 6 store cows, £7 to £8 35.; 3 15-month heifcra £5 55.; 1 springing heifer. £10 10s.; 1 -15-montu Jersey bull. £5; 1 2-year 'Shorthorn do.,■ £8 5a.; 1 5-ye«r Hereford do., £11 Us.; 173 Hereford, Shorthorn and Polled Angus, 15-month steers, £9 10s.