LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 14

LIVE STOCK SALES

BURNSIDE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, September 5. Genorallv there was little alteration in sheep prices ruling at Burnside to-day. Fat cattle were slightly easier, but bacon pigs were firmer. There was a sound demand for best classes of store cattle. Fat Cattle.—A yhrdiug of 203 showed fair to prime average weight bullocks, some few pens of heavy sorts, and useful trade cows and heifers together with a fair proportion of unfinished cattle, Extra special bullocks sold to £3l, extra heavy £”] to £23, medium heavy £lB to £2O, medium light £lO to £l7 10s.; heavy heifers. £ll 15s. to £l5 lbs.; medium heavy, £l3 ">s. to £l4; medium light, £l2 to £l3; prime heavy cows, £l4 to £lO 10s.; medium heavy, £l3 to £l3 15s. Prime ox beef sold on a basis of 485.; plain. 455.; prime licifer, 455.: cow and light heifer, 255., 40s. per 1001 b. Fat Sheep.—A penning of 2000 was of mixed quality. Unfinished pannings were fairly large, while there were also some few pens of ctxra prime ewes and wethers, together with a fair number of fair wools and crossbreds. There was fair demand for prime heavy sheep at unchanged values. The average rate was occasionally Is to Is. Od. cheaper. Inferior quality was about the same as last week. Extra special wethers ; made sbs. od. to Ohs., nrime heavy, 465. 9d. to uOs.; prune, J9s. 6s to 445.; medium. 345. 9d. to 375. 6d.; light, 31s. to 325. Gd.; best ewes, 41s. q to 45s 6(1.: prime heavy. 355. 6d. to 385.; medium, 20s. to 255. Prime wethers sold on basis of. 61d. to 7d.; prime ewes, old., “^tere'catUe.—A yarding of 150 ln 7 eluded some sixty fair to well-bred steers. The demand was sound, but on a lover level than previously for steers. Cows were unchanged.. Pens f ! f tor . wilr I t ’t's and four-vear-old well-bred bullocks brought £l5 155.; forward £8 10s. to £10s; one- and-a-balf-year-olds. tO pf g s.2:i37 6 fatK and 176 stores yarded.' Baconers were firmer and porkers, which were in over supply, were us. easier. eßst stores met with a fair demand, while inferior sorts were in slow demand. MASTERTON. The Wairarapa Farmers’ Co-operative Association (Stock Department), report having offered a fair entry to a good attendance of buyers at the special cattle sale. All lots came forward in splendid order, the auctioneers’ principal offering being fat cows'and heifers, wlin'h were sold on account of Mr. E. B. V ellwood. A pen of 16 prime P.A. cows from this vendor topping the market at £l4 -s. b(I. per head, and a pair of nine Shor thorn Hereford cross cows making £l4 per head. Practically all the best lines were secured by West Coast buyers, under keen competition-. Other sales were as follow : Fat heifer, £l2; fat cows. £<> -s--6d to £lO 12s 6d.; forward three-year steers, £ll to £ll 155.; coloured steers, £8 15s. ;#forward heifers, £4 10s.; cull cows (potters), £3 55.; springing dairyheifers, £5 to £7; 1 dairy cow. £S. The New Zealand Farmers Co-opera-tive Distributing Co.. Ltd., report as follow, on Wednesday’s Masterton sale;— We had a large yarding of sheep and cattle, which came forward to a large attendance of buyers. We yarded some very good pens of fat ewes and wethers, and also about 100 head of prime fat cattle. Competition was kpen for all lots offered, and we disposed of our whole yarding of sheep and cattle witn the exception of one pen of fat wethers. Almost the whole of the entry of fat cattle was purchased by Hawera butchers, and the bulk of the store cattle went to Feilding and Wanganui districts. The following were the prices realised: —Light. fat wethers, 395.; heavy prime hoggets, £2; fat ewes, 335. to 345.; b.f. wethers, 345.; woolly wether hoggets, 295. 3d. to 31s. 6d.; woolly ewe hoggets, 335. 5(1.: forward empty ewes, 265. 6d., ~Bs. <d. to 295. ; store ewes,.2ls. to 245.; fat maiden ewes, 335, 6d„ 365, to 385.; weaner pigs, 20s. to 235.: small slips, 265.; porkers, £1 175.: light, fat bullocks. £lO 17s. to £l4; prime fat heifers. £l2 las. to £l3 16s : light do., £9 7s. 6(1. to £10; prime fat cows, £lO to £l3 175.; light fat cows, £7 10*. to £9; 80 forward store cows, £7 as.; springing heifer, £8 17s Gd.; boner cows, £2 to £5; bull, £3 7s. 6d. MARTON. Messrs. Abraham aud .Williams, Ltd., report having yarded a fair entry of sheep consisting of ewe and wether hoggets at the Marton sale on Tuesday last. Owing to the inclemency of the weather several lines that were advertised did not come forward. There was a small entry of cattle consisting of dairy cows, and the sale for these was inclined to be dull. A good penning of pigs came forward, and a total clearance was effected at prices slightly down on recent sales. Quotations: Ewe hoggets, to 34 s. Sd.; wether hoggets, good, 28s. 9d. to 335. 9d. ; medium , wether hoggets, L3s. to 265.: b.f. hoggets, 245. ;• springing cows, £6 ss. to > £7 10s.: forward cows, £4; weaner pigs. 135.-6 d. to 215.; porkers, 275. 6d. to 30s. ' ASHHURST. ■Messrs. Abraham aud Williams, Ltd., report having, yarded a small entry of sheep and a good entry of cattle and pigs at the Ashhurst sale on Wednesday, aud all classes of stock sold particularly well at prices ranging as follow: —-Ewe hoggets, to : 375.; wether hoggets, to 295. 9d.; springing cows, £7 10s. to £l4 10s.; springing heifers, to £l2. 10s.; empty cows, £3 10s. to £5 17s. 6d.; weaner pigs, 15s 1 . to ISs. 3d.; slips, 20s. to 245. LEVIN. Messrs. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report: A fair yarding of sheep, cattle aud pigs came forward for the Levin sale on Tuesday, and practical! the whole entry changed’ bands under the hammer at prices as follow: —Fat wethers, to £2 Is. 9d.; fat hoggets, 28s. to £2 25.; forward ewes, 245. Id.: wether hoggets, 275. 6d. to 285.; ewes in lamb, 275. 6d.; fat cows, to £6 7s. 6d.; forward cows, £4 15s. to £4 195.; dairy cows, £7 12s. Gd. to £8 10s.; springing heifers, £7 12s. Gd. to £9 55.; weaner pigs, 6s. Gd. to 125.; slips, 17s. to 225. 6d.; porkers, £2 to £2 15s.