LATEST COMMERCIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8724, 25 November 1913, Page 5

LATEST COMMERCIAL.

ASHBURTON STOCK MARKET.

The Ashburton live stock market was held at the Tinwald Yards to-day. There was a moderate attendance and the total sheep penned numbered 1745, as against 1290 for the previous sale. The yarding of fat ewes showed an imcrease on last week's total, but several

lines were little better than forward stores) and were taken by farmer's. There was fairly keen competition for prime ewes, but prices were about Is 6d per head lower than last week, woolly ewes making up to 26s and shorn" ewes up to 18s 4d. There was a decrease in the yarding of'fat wethers and although the quality! was good, there was not a great demand and a large percentage" was parsed in by auction. Woolly wethers made up to 25s 3d, and. shorn ditto up to 19s 6d. There were 18 fat lambs yarded, against eight at the previous sale, but they were small, and 10 were passed in by auc,tion, prices reaching up to 18s 9d. Two hoggets made 18s. The details of the fat sheep .penned were as follows, the figures in parentheses being those for ' last week:—Ewes: 216 (140); wethers 152 (192); lambs, 18 (8). There was practically no competition for the small yarding of store sheep and of the number penned (1357) 1283 were passed in by auction. The yard- " ing of store sheep sent forward last week was 950.

The following were the quotations:—

Sheep.

Fat SheerS;—Ewes: 13 crossbred 15s 6d, 2 do. 22s 3d, 3 do. 18s 6d, 2 f-bred 23s 9d, 8 crossbred 255,7 do. 16s 4d. 24' shorn 17s, 11 S-bred 16s 6d, 11 do. 16s 4d, 10 crossbred 22s od, 10 |-bred 21s, 8 crossbred 22s 9d, 8 Down 24s 6d, 13 crossbred 22s 6d, 6 J-bred 2a? 3d, 11 shorn ISs 4d, 7 do. 17s 9d, 7 -J-bred 24s Gd, 2 hoggets 19s, 4 crossbred 25s 3d, 10 shorn 16s 7d, 5 crossbred 25s 7d, 1 shorn 17a 6d. Wethers: 1 shorn 18s 3d, 6 i-bred 23s Id, 1 shorn'l6s 6d, 2 do. 19s 3d, 33 do. 19s 6d, 32 do. 19s,- 12 crossbred 25s od. Lambs: 6 at 16s 9d, 2 at 18s, 3 at 18s 9d, 3 at 17s. ' Store pens: 7 merino ewes 7s 4d, 7 1 s.m. crossbred ewes and 9 lambs (all counted) 15s, 14 b.m. -J-bred ewes and 13 lambs.(all counted) 9s 3d, 72 s. and f. mouth I -bred ewes and 52 lambs (all counted) 11s od, 76 4 and 6 tooth %- bred shorn dry ewes 15s 2d, 98 s.m. -|- bred ewes and 85 lambs (all counted) 13s Bd.

Cattle

There was a large entry of cattle. Fat pens: .Steers £6 17s 6d, £9, £6 10s, £8 2s 6d, £9 55,; cows £5, £7 10s. Store pens: Heifer (springing) £7 ss, cow (in full profit) £3 10s, heifer (springing) £6 2s 6d, do. (in profit) £7 os, do. (springing) £7 os, 7 1-year stores at £2 ISs, 11 calves- at 38s, 1 16-months' heifer £3, cow (springing) £5, heifer (springing) £4 10s, bull hi, , heifer (in profit) £7 12s-6d, 4 yearlings at £3, cow (springing) £7 10s.