LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 136, 11 June 1934, Page 4

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

CONDITIONS IN TARANAKI. SHEEP AND CATTLE FIRM. (From Our Own Correspondent.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Saturday. With the export price as it is aud the shortage of supplies, Taranaki values of fat sheep remain firm with a hardening tendency. Sales of prime fat wethers have been effected at 28/, with prime fat ewes iu truck lots at up to 21/6. Eat lambs continue to display a hardening tendency. Values of <111 classes of fat cattle remain firm with sales including truck lots of prime fat maiden heifers at £6 5/1 The sale of a line of one hundred prime _P .A. and Hereford cows was effected at £5 10/, with truck lots of lighter cattle at from £4 15/ to £5 5/. The sale of two trucks of ox beef was made at £6. In the store sheej) section a very keen demand exists for practically every class. Ewes mated to either S.D. or Komney rams arc in keen demand, with the diliiculty of obtaining quotes being the biggest factor. Sales include 400 four-tooth, sixtooth, four-year and five-year ewes mated to S.D. rams at 24/6, with a further line of 100 four-year ewes at 25/. Ewe lambs remain in very keen demand, and sales include 200 medium lambs at 18/6, 100 medium lambs at 17/6, with further small lines of better class sheep, at up to 22/. Wether lauibs continue to command attention at as high as 17/ for best quality sheep. At these figures Taranaki still remains the cheapest market, outside values being above these figure;. Values of store cattle remain on a par with those ruling last_ week, with values of store bullocks showing a slight hardening tendency, due no doubt to the return to the 20/ per 1001b schedule for ox beef. •Young cattle continue to find favour and sales include two lines of P.A. calves at 35/. The local demand during the week lias been keen for good quality dairy heifers. A line of 25 choice two-year heifers was sold at £4 10/, and numerous trucks of two-year and three-year heifers at from £4 15/ to £5 15/._ Young cows are keenly sought at values in the vicinity of £6 10/. The weaner heifer market remains quiet with only quality cattle being sought after at up to £2. Yard sales at all centres continue to attract large entries of store cattle, keen sales resulting in total clearances. A good yarding of store cattle and a larger number of dairy cattle came forward to the Inglewood sale on Wednesday. Works buyers again operated freely, resulting in prices being on a par with previous sales. The dairy cattle yarded were mostly medium and backward, but good prices were obtained for those showing well forward. A few fat lambs were also yarded and sold from 18/8 to 23/. Best weaners sold to 31/0. Fat Shorthorn heifers and cows made from £4 to £5, while light fat Jersey cows £3 10/, dairy lieifers to £4 5/, dairy cows to £4 17/6, works cows to £2 5/, according to condition, and boners to £1 9/.