ADDINGTON MARKET

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23401, 7 August 1941, Page 10

ADDINGTON MARKET

NATIONAL SALE

FINE CATTLE DISPLAY The National fat stock show and market yesterday attracted a good display of fat cattle, and to a lesser extent of sheep and pigs. Though there may have not been more outstanding pens of prime cattle than usual, there were more lines of a very high standard, particularly of .provincial cattle. The sale was a sound one throughout for a very large entry. Fat sheep comprised an overflow entry, numbering 8000 head, the sale of which was not completed until dark,' and generally there was a slight e'aslng in values. Spring lambs, were to the fore, and sold well, tops making 40s lOd. STORE SHEEP

The store sheep yarding was considerably smaller than those of the two previous weeks, only 1800 coming forward against 3100 last week. The bulk of the yarding was again of ewes, 1300 being entered. The sale was fairly good for the best class ewes, and values were little changed from those of last week, but for Inferior ewes there was an easing of Is a head or more. Some excellent two-

tooths were penned, the top price being 34s,6d;for a line of 10! big-framed halfbreds in lamb to Ryeland rams. A small pen of two and three-shear , halfbreds in laiph to Southdowns made 32s 3d, The best price for aged ewes was 24s 6d, paid for a useful line of well-woolled halfbreds in lamb to Southdowns. The best price for hoggets, which sold well, was 22s 6d for a truck lot of ewes from Scargill. Only three small pens of ’ wethers, totalling 40 in all, were offered. SPRING LAMBS As is customary at a National market forv thfe first of the season’s

.spring lambs high prices were offered. It was the best ‘showing of iambs for some years, and totalled 50 head, though many of them were late hoggets and, not spring lambs. The large yarding was probably a reflection of therecent tendency to produce . earlier lambs, a tendency which has been materiaUy helped this year by the exceptionally favourable season. The best of the lambs offered 'were exceptionally good, and a number ,of pens made 30s or better. The demand for all sorts was very good, the top price being 40s lOd for two from T. H. James (Leitlrfleld). A line of 26 from I. T. Croft (Amberley) made from 24s 7d to 40s Id, the latter price being paid for three.

FAX SHEEP I The fat sheep yarding was 8000 head, In keeping with the double market. A number of pens of show sheep were entered, but there seemed to be no disposition on the part, of the buyers to make any distinction between them and the ordinary, commercial sheep. Bidding started out bn a basis about equivalent to last week’s slightly lower values, but there was very soon \a slackening in the Inquiry, and values eased. All over, the sale, which did not finish until It was dark, was about Is a head lower for all classes except heavy and tallowy ewes which did not appear to be wanted. They were up to 3s a head cheaper. . The quality of the offering was good, and well up to the standard of past National markets. Supplies were drawn from very far afield, sheep coming from the North Island and from S °Top* price of the sale was 49s Id, which was paid for the best of a line of wethers from X Cowie' (Hawarden). The best ewe price was 34s lOd for four sent In by M. S. Turton (Ashburton ForksX.

Values were;— Extra prime heavy wethersi to 49s Id. ■ Prime heavy wethers, 30s 6d to 335. Prime medulm-welght wethers, 27s 6d to 30s. . „ ■ Ordlnarv wethers, 24s to 275. Light wethers to 23s 6d. Extra Prime; ewes to_34s lOd. Prime heavy ewes, Ms to Zss. Medium ewes, 19s to 22s 6d. Light ewes to 18s 6d. CATTLE The show of prime-cattle was about the best seen at the yards for some years, tocludlng. as It did* more, of show duallt/. The show cattle were offered early In the sale/ and they sold ;partlculariy_well, based bn Commercial ‘ values. > Fancy prices for advertising purposes are now a thing of the past, - and the best price to-day for a massive Hereford, shown by Plaskett Bros., Feraslde, made.£2B 17s 6d. Another from G. J. p. Held (Grasslngton) made £2B, who also realised £* lor a second steer. The prize-winning

pen of three Aberdeen-Angus steers offered by T. H. Wilkinson (Spotswood) sold at £27, and this vendor’s next pen at £26 10s. A. Carruthers (Middlemarch) sold steers at £24 ss, £24, and £23. and A. Sharp (Halswell) sold several at from £23 10s down to £l9 15s. The champion fat beast of the previous day’s show, a Shorthorn cross heifer shown by J. E. Thacker (Okain’s Bay) sold at £26 10s. A. Gillanders.(Domett) sold steers at £2O 15s and £2O, and a heifer at £lB. Vickery and Turnbull (Invercargill) sold a steer at £22, and L, Brown (Rangiora) two at £2O 15s and £2O. The total entry in the fat cattle section Was 790 head, an exceptionally heavy penning, following last week’s offering of 770. Naturally in such a heavy penning there was a substantial showing of cows, but on the whole the entry was an exceptionally good one in the matter of quality. The market opened at about, last week’s values, and there was no diminution in the briskness of the demand throughout. As a matter of fact, the last two races of . cattle, which comprised heavy, well-finished sorts,’ ranged from about £l7 10s to £2O 10s. equal to the best of the day. Good beef made from 41s 6dto 44s per 1001b, medium t6 good 39s to 41s, and ordinary from 36s to 38s 6d per 1001b. There was a complete clearance of the heavy offering. Values were as under:— Show steers, £2l to £2B 17s 6d. Extra good heavy steers, £lB 10s to £2O. Prime medium-weight steers to £l6 15s. Ordinary steers, £ll 10s to £l4 ss. Light steers to £lO 15s, Show heifers, £l9 to £26 10s. Extra good, £l3 to £l7. Prime heifers, £ll 10s to £l2 15s. Medium heifers, £9 to £ll. Light heifers, £6 5s to £8 ss. Extra prime cows to £ls 2s 6d. Prime cows, £9 to £ll. Medium cows, £6 15s to £8 15s. Inferior cows, £5 5s to £6 10s. STORE CATTLE

There was only a skeleton entry in the store cattle section, and no lines of young cattle were Included. Little Interest was taken in the sale. The odd pens of cows of which the entry was comprised met with an average demand, making up to £5 for fresh young sorts. VEALERS The entry of veal was of moderate size, and the sale was a better one than that of last week.. Large runners wefe not as numerous as they have been recently, and the inquiry for them was better. Small calves were in heavier supply, but met a free sale. -A truck lot of Hereford cross calves from the West Coast averaged £5 10s. Values were:— Large runners to £ll 18s 6d. Others, £4 8s 6d to £6 18s 6d. Good vealers, £3 13s 6d to £5 10s. Medium vealers, £2 16s to £3 6s. Large calves, 43s to £3 ss. Others, 8s to, 395. DAIRY CATTLE There was-a large entry of 103 dairy cattle, almost all of which were of very Indifferent quality. The bulk of the entry comprised cows still about a fortnight off calving, which met a slow sale. The few good cows offered were freely bought at prices up to £l4. The display of tieifers was very disappointing, as most of them were small and backward. They met a dull sale at lower values. Best second, third and fourth calvers made £ll 10a to £l4, medium £7 10s to £lO 10s, and others from £3 10s. Best heifers made to £l2, with medium -; £6 10s to £B, and inferior ’ from £4 10s up. FAT PIGS

The yarding of porkers was small for a double market and the quality was not up to the usual standard. Values opened up at a shade better price than last week, but over the latter part of the auction they improved by 3s to 4s a head and remained mere till the end of the sale. Choppers were In fairly heavy supply but values showed little change. Of five choppers entered in the show-section only two were of show standard, and they made the best price for some time, the top being £l3 10s. Baconers were offered In fairly heavy numbers, but values showed very little variation.

Values were:— „ • Choppers, £3 Is 6d to £7 17s .6d. Show choppers, £l2 10s to £l3 10s. Light porkers, 41s 6d to 47s 6d. _ Medium porkers, 52s 6d to 57s 6d. Heavy porkers. 59S 6d to £3 9s 6d. Average price per lb, BJd to 91d. Light baconers, £3 9s 6d to £3 14s 6d. Medium baconers, £3 15s 6d to £4 2s 6d. Heavy baconers, £4 4s 6d to £4 9s 6d. Extra heavy baconers, £4 10s 6d to £4 19s-6d. .. Average price per lb, 6Jd to 71 d. STORE PIGS

The store pig entry was by jio means a double market, there being quite a number of empty pens. ‘At the beginning of the sale there was a very large attendance, and prices Just about made up the large drop of last week. Before very long, however, the buyers had disappeared and values eased considerably, and over the whole sale.waa little better than that.of

last week. The only classes to attract any competition were the best quality weaners. Values were Small weaners, 8s to 10s. Medium weaners, 11s to 15s. Best weaners. to 19s. Slips, 16s to 21s. Small stores, 22s to 255. Medium stores, 26s to 28s. Large stores,,29s to 325. FAT PIG SHOW Some excellent quality pigs were entered in the fat stock show in conjunction with the market. The fat cattle section was judged on Tuesday, and yesterdays judging of the bacon pigs Concluded the show. ‘ , ~ . There was a very good entry of 15 pigs from local sfturces. E. J. Hickmbtt and Sons, Ltd., consistent winners at previous sales, showed the champion, -a crossbred pig. They also took second prize with another crossbred.

The show was promoted five years ago with the Idea of encouraging the growth of a desirable class of bacon for export, based on the normal export bacon trade. The pigs which were judge* yesterday will go on to the freezing works, where they will be slaughtered. They will then be judged on the Smithfield standard at the Metropolitan Show. The result of the class was:—.

Bacon pig, not less than 1701b and not to exceed 2001b live weight, most suitable for the export trade. Prizes, £3, £2, and £l.—E. J. Hickmott and Sons, Belfast (crossbred), 1; E. J. Hickmott and Sons, Belfast (crossbred), 2; ’J. Simpson, Southbridge (Tamworth), 3; Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln (Tamworth), 4.

STORTFORD LODGE (P.A.) HASTINGS, August 6. A good advance was made on late high rates for hoggets at Stortford Lodge today, when buying was the dearest of the season. The yarding included the first of the season’s ewes with lambs, which ranged from 16s 6d to 13s, all counted. On a basis of quality, breeding ewes made dearer buying. Most In-lamb ewes were aged sheep, below standard. Lowset twa-tooth ewes made from 30s 3d to 31s, six-year faulty-mouthed 21s 3d, aged and carrying very little wool from 14s 2d to 15s Id, young mixed age 25s 6d. Extra- forward woolly wether hoggets made 23s lOd, forward from 19s Id to 21s Id, shorn as lambs from 16s ter 17s Id, extra good woolly ewe hoggets from 30s 3d to 31s, shorn as lambs from 24s 5d to 27s 3d.

Fat sheep also commanded bright selling, the market advancing from Is 6d to 2s a head, extra good quality being 3s a head dearer. A number of ewes made more than 20s, top price being 21s lOd. Lighter but also prime pens brought 18s Id to 19s Id, medium 15s lOd to 17s Id, light 12s lOd to 14s lOd, very plain being as cheap as 10s lOd. Extra heavy wethers brought 27s lOd to 28s 10d, medium-weight woolly hoggets 16s 7d to 27s Id. Exceptionally good quality females were Included in .the beef offering, which showed a good advance on last week. One lot of Aberdeen-Angus cows ranged from £ll 13s 6d to £9 11s, making the high aver* age of £lO 8s 2d, and another lot of extra heavy cows made from £lO 8s 6d to £l2 13s 6d. Quality heifers made from £ll 18s 6d to £lO, and heavy steers to £l4 6s, the draft averaging £ll 13s. A draft of medium-weight Aberdeen-Angus heifers well suited ' to' the first-class trade, averaged £9 11s. In other pens light cows made £7'Bs 6d.

A strong market rilled for store cattle. Rising four-year Aberdeen-Angus steers realised £ll, rising three-year £9 Us. and a year youngster £8 Is. The best weaners steers in the yarding were not quite as well grown as the tops offered of late, and made £4 17s 6d. In-calf cows lacking condition made from £4 16s to £5 4s. Dehorned, in-calf Hereford heifers In good order brought £6. Rising twoyear Hereford heifers In extra good order made £5 14s.

BURNSIDE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, August 6. There was a yarding of 258 fat cattle for the Burnside sale, comprising a large percentage of bullocks, including several pens of extra good quality. There: were not • many cows and ' heifers forward. Values for heavy bullocks opened at 10s less than last week, other grades being on a par with recent rates. The sale was steady throughout. Extra prime heavy bullocks sold to £22 12s 6d, prime heavy bullocks from £l9 12s 6d to £2O 2s 6d, prime £l6 17s 6d to £lB 12s 6d„ medium £ll 12s 6d to £l4 17s 6d, light down to £7 7s'6d, extra prime cows and heifers to £l6 12s 6d, prime £l2 2s 6d to ,£l3 12s 6d, medium £8 12s 6d to £9 17s 6d. and light £5 2s 6d to £6 17s 6d. A total of 2232 fat sheep was penned, the bigger percentage of the entry being ewes, including several consignments of particularly good quality. - Butchers' wethers were • not over-supplied, a small penning of hOggets, mostly ‘ of average quality, selling firm at last week’s rates The sale opened with the prices of prime wethers Is a head lower than last week, l.vhile medium and light showed stUI fur-

ther reduction. Quality ewes were easier to the extent of Is 6d a head. Extra prime wethers sold to 375, prime 31s to 34s 6d, medium 27s 9d to 30s, .light 21s ■to 255, extra prime young ewes to 30s 3d. prime 21s 9d to 24s 6d, medium 16s to 18s, light down to 12s, extra prime hoggets to 35s 3d, prime 25s to 275, and medium 17s 6d to 20s. Thirty-five dairy cows were penned, but the majority were backward in condition. Good cows and heifers at profit met a ready, sale from £7 10s to £8 15s, while low-conditioned sorts were hard to quit. One hundred and sixty-four pigs were penned, of which two-thirds were porkers. The sale commenced with prices on a par with last week’s values, and maintained a steady Inquiry throughout. Best baconers made front £4 10s to £5 Is, heavy porkers £3 12s to £3 17s, medium £2 18s to £3 ss, and light £2 to £2 10s. There was an entry of 92 store pigs, prices being'much the same as last week. Good stores made to 355, and weaners 18s to 255.

GERALDINE (P.S.S.) TIMARU, August 6. The yarding of stdre sheep at Geraldine comprised fine woolled sheep of medium quality. The demand" was a little easier for this class of sheep than at the previous sales. The few'pens of fat sheep sold at late rates. Six and eight-tooth half and three-quarterbred ewes made from 16s to 20s 6d, small ewe lambs 10s 7d to 16s 6d, two-tooth ‘ hklfbfed ewes, ' 19s 6d; wether lambs, 12s: medium fat wethers. 25s Id to 27s lOd; fat ewes, 16s lOd to 10s lOd.