LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 8

LIVE STOCK MARKET.

ADDWGTON MARKET.

SHEEP IN GOOD DEMAND.

PEIME STEERS TO £18 7/6.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The improved prices of last week wet* well maintained with an occasional harden, ing of prices at Addington to-day. Th* better tone in the store sheep market at the last few sales continued to-day, th» demand, particularly for wethers, beini the best for some time. A truck lot of four, six and cight-tooti halfbred ewes made 16/4; a small lot of five-year three-quarter-bred ewas, 13/3; » small line of two-tooth wethers, 13/6. ■ ■■*■ Best lambs in the fat lamb section eoH from 7d to 7 1 /£ d per lb. Light lambs hid a dull sale with little change in values. About 5500 fat sheep were again entered. The sale began firmly, wethers showing an advance of 1/ and upward in the earlier part to a full 2/ in the latter half of the market. Better clasa ewes also soM » little better. Ex%a prime heavy wethen made to 39/1; prime heavy, 2V to 3ty; prime medium, 24/ to 26/; liglt, to 19/« extra prime heavy ewes>. to 27/10; prime &?rkßf I? i# ; prkne medium - 17/to The fat cattle sale was the best of •fife season for prime quality. Several pens of good cows and heifers also made higherprices than for eoine time.' Medina cattle showed little change on last week. ; Extra prime heavy steers made to £W 7/6; prime-heavy, ,£M \£f to £V& ofprime £13 to d?I4 H)/; light, £10; extra' prime heifere, to £12 7/e-V •prime, £10 10/ to £11 10/; medium, «V to £9 15/; light, to £T5/; extra primed cowe, to £13 7/6; prime, £8 10/ to luS 5/; medium, £6 10/ to £7 15/; light, to.: 1 £6 5/.

- Although there wae a larger entry JH porkers, the sale "was good, pEices from the. outset being a shade dearer than lastweetr Better values were maintained until tKe? last race, when a relapse of 3/ to 4J « head took place. Choppers were a : medium supply and the sale was eatWie-P tory. Baconerg came forward in smaller numbers and prices showed little change. Porkers made 37/6 to 59/6; average price, per lb, 6%d to 7%d; baconere, 59/6 to £5' 5/; average price per lb, 6%d to 7<L I PAPAKURA MIXED SALE. —— ' H 1 DAIRY COWS TO £ia 17/6. ' Cattle were penned in large numbers at the first-of-the-month sale at Papakura. Dairy cows and heifers at profit, fats and boners met with strong competition from, a good representative attendance of the public. Top quality Jersey cows at profit made up to £10 17/6 and Friesians to £10 10/; good, £7 to £9; backward young cows, £5 5/ to £6 15/; old and inferior, £3 to £5 10/; extra quality Jersey heifers at profit, £9 10/ to £10 12/6; leeer quality, £7 5/ to £8 10/; later calvere, £4 15/ to £6 12/6; heavy fat cots, to £8 8/; others, £4 15/ upwards; killable cowe, £3 2/6 to £4 5/; medium boners, £2 to £2 15/; lighter, £1 5/ to £1 15/; 2% to three-year-old steers, £5 10/ to £6 3'6; weaner steers, to 30/; weaner heifers, to 43/; bulls. £3 2/6 to £6. A full yarding of sundries, including posts and hedge plants; sold at full ruling ratee. PUTARURU RETURNS. ——« i (Prom Our Own Correspondent) PUTARURU, this day. Dairy cows under herd test in the Puttrum district during May, the final month of the New Zealand Co-operative Herdtesting Association's season, averaged about half a pound of butterf&t per day. The Putaruru group had 548 cows under test in May, the yield per cow being 2281b of milk, 5.97 test and 141b of butterfat. One herd of 38 cows averaged 191b of fat and the highest cow in the group gave 461b of fat. The Tokoroa group's 275 cows averaged 2211b of milk, 5.9S test and 131b of buttertat. The highest cow gave 371b of fat and ' the best herd averaged 161b of fat for 31 cows.