COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16613, 10 December 1919, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

LIVE STOCK SALES. Messrs.' Levin and Co., Ltd., report holding their FeihUng sale on Friday, when they olferod a large entry of both sheep and cattle. Prices declined very considerably from last week on account cf tile large consignments coming -from Hawke’s Lay district. Quotations: —Two-tooth wethers (fair), 10s to 18s, (good) 20s; mixed 2-tooths, 15s Id; 2tuoth owes, 15s ( Jd to 10s; shorn fat sheep, 30-s 6d ; bulls, £l2 os, £l2 10s: store cows, £1 os, £4-103; forward empty cows, £6 4s, £G 7s hi to £9 7s 6d; empty S.H. cows, '£9; empty P.A. cows, £8 15s; fat cows, £lO 10s; fat heifers, £l4 15s; empty p.h. S.H. heifers, £lO 11s; cows and calves, poor condition, £7 4s to £7 sa; springing heifers, £5 2s Cd, to £ll 10s; 3-year steers. £10; bad-coloured 2-year steers, £7 2s 6d; wcaner heifers, 25s Cd; yearling dairy heifers, £3 17s. Messrs! Laigely and Company, Limited. Palmerston North, report on their Palmerston North sale. Wo had a small yarding of sheep and cattle, which met a slow’sale. Quotations: —Sheep: Aged ewes and lambs, 34,s Gd ; forward shorn ewes, 23s Cd. Cattle; Yearling heifers, £3 lbs to £5 XGs ; 2-year empty heifers, £5 15; stove cons, £4 5s to £7 Vs; forward cows, £9; yearling bulls, £4 5s to £5. ) T he New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report that at their weekly sale, held at Levin yards on Tuesday, a small entry of sheep and a good yarding of cattle came forward. There was a good demand for forwardcondition’ and store cows, empty dairy heifers, and well-bred yearling steels. Mixed coloured steers wore mill el sale. They quote;—Aged ewes and lambs, 32:, to 36s 3d ; .small mixed_ sex hoggets (shorn), 21. S 9d; voaprs, 37s to £•2” 12s (iii ; forward-condition cows. £8 to £9 os; .store cows, £6 19s to £7; light ditto, £4 10s to £5 12s Gd ; cows and calves, £9 ss; yearling steers, £o 10s to £G ss; 2-year empty heifers, £7 to £8; yearling ditto, £5 10s to £!> 5s ; .small" ditto, £3 4s to £4 10s ; mixed sex yearlings. £3 ISs; dairy cows, £l4; spline heiiors (small), £8; yeaiiing bulls, £4 10s to £7 2s 6d ; 3-ycar pedigree Jersey bull. 20 guineas; potter balls, £8 5s to £l2. Tito New Zealand Farmers’ Co-op. Distributing Co. report having held their opening sale in their new- ferroconcrete yards at Marten, on Thursday. \ very largo yarding of both sheep and cattle came forward, hut, owing to the continued dry weather, bidding was inclined to drag; however, in a large number of cases vendors met the market, and a considerable quantity of both sheep and cattle wore disposed of. Quotations;—Two-tooth wethers, 24s 10d; 2-touth ewes, 235: aged ewes in lamb, in wool, 20s to 22s 9d; younger sorts, 32s 6d to 37s 6d ; dry ewes, 16s 4d; m.s. hoggets, in wool, 25s 9d; fab ewes, 28s 64 ; fat lambs, 23s Gel; 2-100111 rams, 23s to £2 2s; 4-year bullocks, £l3 15s; fat heifers, £l2; fat cows, £ll ss, £lO 10s, £9 10s, £7 10s; fat steer, £l2 2s; empty cows. £7 8s Gd. £0 lus, empty heifers, £0 IGs to £7 2s Gd; 2year stems, £4 16s to £7 12s; yearling steers, £5 8s ; yearling heifers. £2 IGs, £3 6s, £4. £5, to £5 11s; S.H. bulls, £9 10s to £10; cows, in profit, £6 to £l4 10s; wcaner pigs, 40s, 41s.