LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 275, 14 August 1920, Page 10

LIVE STOCK SALES

The New Zealand Loan ond Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report on their Maaterton salo held on Wednesday. We had a small entry of sheep and cattle, which we offered to a largo attendance, In sympathy with outside markets, prices dropned about 3s, ner head on sheen. We quote:—Fairly good hoggetb, 275. 9d.; forward empty ewes. 325. 6d.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Aqency Comnany, Ltd., report:—At tho Wanganui East salevards on Wednesday we had a good- yarding of Bheep and- a fair one of cattle. There was a ?ood attendance, but the sale was rather dragging. Prices all round were soracwimt easier than those ruling at the previous sale. We quitted the bulk of our entry at the following prices:—Pat four ar.'d sixtooth wethers, 415.; forward four end sixtooth wethers, 48s. 6d.: light, fat ewes, olh. 6(1.; empty ewes, 265. 6d.; good hoggets, 31s. 3d. j email hogjreta. 225. Id. to 235. 6d.; mixed-aged ewes in lamb, 30s. 3d.; yearling steers, £4 12a. 6d.; m.s. wpancrs. £2: hankward three-year dairy heifers, £12 2s. 6d. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association, Ltd., Pahiatua, report on their weekly sale held in the Mnngahao yards, on AugUßt 10, as follows;— Only .two pens of sheep came" forward, and a small yarding of cattle. One pen of ewes was disposed of at £2 2s. 6d„ and with the exception of two dairy cows, the cattle yarding was sold under the hammer. Cattle continue to show improved prices. We quote the following- prices:—lo4 two, four, and eis-tooth ewes in lamb, £2 2s. fd, ; three springing cows, £13 7s. 6d„ £12 I'.. «d., £11 55.; four do., from £10 10s. to £4 7fl. 6d\; 1 do., £8 7s. 6d.; 1 springing Rccond calver, £18; 1 P.A. heifer. £4 55.; 2 empty cows, £6 135.; 19 do., £6 9s. 6d.; 9 do., £4 155.; 1 store cow, £5 155,; 5 steers, £i. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association. Ltd., Pahiatua. report on their fortnightly sale held in the Woodville yards on Monday, aa folIows:-We had a fair yarding of Bheep, nnd a heavy yarding of cattle. Sheen were slightly lower than late Bales' reports, and the deronnd for cattle was not particularly keen. We quote the following sales:—loo two-tooth to four-year cwcb, .in lamb to S.D., 40s. 6d.: 52 four, and eight-tooth ewea in lamb to Eomncy ramß, 2<tiib. ; 97 fat and forward ewes, 325. 6d.j 10 fat ewes, 33s 6d.; 49 m.s. lionets, 255. sd. Cattle: 5 fat cowb, £11 10s.; 1 do.. £10; 1 do.. £8 10s.; 1 do., £7 5b.; 10 do., £5; 12 three-vear steers, £11; 7 forward cows, £8 95.; store cows, from £6 Is. to £3 10s.; dairy cows, £17 10s. and £17; springing heifers. £1010s. Messrs. Dalgoty and, Company- Limited, I'almerston North, report having a good yarding of both sheep and cnttlo at their Feilding sale on-August 6. There was a very fair demand for all clanscß of sheep, but cattle wore slightly easier than previous weeks sale. Quotations: ShtcpOull hoggets, 13s. 4d. to 15b. Id.; small hoggets, IBs. sd. to 195.; fair hoggets, 225.; very fair hoggets, to 26b. 3d.; good hoggets, to 295. 5d.; forward ewes, 23s to 265.; fat and forward ewes, 275. 6d. to'3!s. Id.; mixed two-tooths. 355.; two-tooth wethers, H>3. 9d,; two-tooth ewes, in lami to Hornnev rams, 365. 7d. Cattle: Small yearling heifcra, £2 7s. 6d. : yearling steers, £4 11b • S??i y ?S ore COW8 > ** 15s ' ; fwwurd cowa, Bir .» 6dt to £9i dair y heifers, £15 15b, to tlo 10s.'