LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

ATesirs Daleety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, in conjunction with tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Itd report having held a dispersal salo of pedigree Friesian cattle on account of Mr. W. ilemnant on lueEday. Owing to extremely rough weather, there was not a verv largo attendance, and a number ot cattle failed to change hands at auction, but eventually the whole catalogue wafl cleared with the exception of a Jew calves, (motations;— Pedigree cows: One at l»«ns., jiloomfteld farm, 'Irentliam; one at "'gns., H E tircon, Kairanga; one at lOOgns., Bioomftcld Farm Co.; one at JSgns. P. Nesbit, llala; one at olgns., G. Low, Choi, tciihaui; pedigree cows, 24Kns., Zt>giiß., 30ens., JSffiis., 37gns., to 49{jub.; heifers, 20, 25, 27, JO, 42, 45, 46 to SUgns.; pedigree bulls, 25, 26, 25, 49, 70kiis.; gra<lo hoiferß' 10 to 15gns.; dairy cows and heifers, £15, £19 sa„ £19 10a., to £2110s. , , ~ Til Dnlgro'y and Luinpany, Ltd., toport having held their weekly snlo at Levin on Tuesday, when they offered a good yarding of sheep and cattle. I'he following are the principal nuOtations— Fat ewes, to 3 s ;'.; forward ewes, 255. 3d. to oOb. ; four and-Oix-tooth ewes, with 100 per cent, lambs, to 55b.; four and six-tooth wethers, to 405.; woolly hoggets, to 36n. £«.; shorn hoggets, to 235.; fat cowa, to £11 145.; two-year steers, £6 to £6 7s. 6d.; fifteen-month heifers, to £5; yearling steers, £3 9s. 6d. to £4; springing heifers, £10 to £11 7s 6d.; cows, on drop, £12 2s. Ul. to £14; eigh-.ei;(U-moiHh H.>iein bulls, lo 10 guineas.

Mr. Jl. Ernest Leiglitcn repurts that at the clearance sale hold on account of Mrs. Hell, Park Avenue, Lower Hutt, on Wedl.esday last, thero was a goo.l attendance. The cows camo forward in condition. and were keenly competed for. They i:fldc ari n verago of .£2O Be. per head.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Fetlding sale on October 31: —Wo had a good yarding of both sheep and cattle. Thero was a good attendance of buyers present, and most of tho entry changcd hands at satisfactory priceß. Quotations:—Fat ewes, &s., *2s. 6d„ to 435. <kt.; fal, hoggets, 395. to 35b. ; forward owes, 20s. 6d., 325., to 335.; two-tootli ewes, to 345. 6d.; ewe hogget*, 345.; mixed hoggets, 205., 255., 26b. 6d.; shorn hoggets, 20«. Bd. L'attlo: Three-year Polled Angus bullocks, £14 55.; three-year Hereford and ShortI'oru bulloelis, £12 to .£l2 10s.; fat cows, £9 10s., £11 55., £12 12s. 6d,; store cows, £4 12s. Id., £5 55.. £6 5a., to £8 17b.; twoyear heifers, £3 IU. 6d., £4, £4 155., to £5 t>3.; springing heifers, £10 15s. to £11; springing cows, to £15; bulls, to £9 10s.; Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Compauy. Ltd., report on their J'nhiniua sale as follows:—We had a. fair entry of both sheep and cattle. Sheep sold well, but cattle wen; dull. We quote: —ll.s. hoggets, 255. 9d. to 28?.; fo-nr-tootli wuthers, fair line, 375. 6d.; dairy cows, £13 to £14 !Cs.; fat cows, £12 15s. to £13' UolstOJii bulls, £9 10b. to £12: Shorthorn bulls, three-year, £11 to £13; Polled Angus bull, £10 10s.; yearling heifers, £2 Us. to £4 10s.; two nnd a half-year coloured steers, £3 #s. Ac Maste-ton on November 5 wo bad a small entry of cuttle, consisting of some nice quality emr'y dairy heifers, which met with a good market nnd realised £S ss. for two-Year-olds and £5 10s. lor yearlingß.