STOCK SALE REPORTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17075, 31 August 1917, Page 6

STOCK SALE REPORTS.

TAIHAPE SALE

!>;■■•'-.■Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palnierston. North, report having held their fortnightly sale at Taihape on the 29th inst:, when a small entry of both ■ ,§heep and cattle oame to hand. There 'was a small attendance of buyers. Jlhere was a good demand for 2* to 3- ' year-steers, but sheep, owing to the small entry, were dull of sale. The following prices were realised for the lines submitted: Mixed hoggets 225; small hoggets 16s lOd; 2i-year steers <£12 5s to £12 15s; 18-month steers to £9 10s; light fat cows to £13; dairy cows to £10. ,

; v Abraham and Williams, Ltd., Palmfirston North, >eport > — ;•; At Palmerston North on the 23rd hist :«:« had a fair entry of sheep, consistring mostly of hoggets, those of good , jjiiality being in good demand. Breedi iiig.ewes were hard to qmt. Store cattle came forward in good numbers; they were in good demand and prices were in favour of the vendors. Dairy cattle were also yarded in good numbers. Good quality heifers sold well! jEwe hogget? brought 295; mixed fat •rKbgegts 31s 4d; Southdown, cross hogigets, 22s 6d; small mixed hoggets 20s to -22s 8d; inferior ditto 17s 6d; aged "ewes in lamb 255. Good 3-year springing heifers 10 gns. to £12 7s 6d; 2-J----year ditto £8 15s to £9 2s 6d; dairy cows £10 to £12; forward cows £9 13s to £10 7s 6d; good store cows £8 7s I Ed to £9 ss; small ditto £6 5s to £7; 2-year store heifers (small) £5 19s (3d; 3-year-old bulls £9 10s to £11; mixed .yearlings £4 18s; yearling heifers, small, £4... „' At Feilding on the 24th inst. we had a fairly good yarding of cattle and a moderate entry of sheep. Cattle were In. good demand, and practically all yarded were sold at satisfactory prices. The market for sheep were slightly easier than last week. Fat ewes lirought 36s 4d to 37s 4d; light ditto 30s 10d; good mixed hoggets 32s 9d; jinedium ewe hoggets 225; medium we(ther hoggets 23s JOd; dairy cows £10. to £13 Is; springing heifers £8 to £12 f>s; backward heifers in ca.lf, £7 to £7 \lss; fat heifers £11 12s to £12 10s; ; 2 r year Shorthorn heifers in calf £10; S^year Shorthorn steers (low condition) '£10 7s; small frame store cows £6 3s to £7 10s; mixed yearlings £5 6s; yearlinti heifers £4 Is to £1 15s. At Hunterville on Tuesday a very , small yarding came to hand. 'Mixed sex hoegets (small) made 20s 9d. At Taihape on AVednesday we had no sheep, but a fair entry of cattle, 'which sold at the following prices:— ,2-year steers £10; others £8 3«: cows in calf", £10; empty heifers £7 10s; dairy cow £13 ss; Shorthorn bull, 2-yr., £10.