ADDINGTON MARKET

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23811, 3 December 1942, Page 7

ADDINGTON MARKET

FIRMER STORE SHEEP SALE

FAT CATTLE CHEAPER Slightly larger entries were forward in most of the major sections of stock at yesterday’s Addington stock market. and values were generally maintained, and in some instances improved. Fat cattle were the excep. tlon. Another fairly heavy entry weakened the demand by about 20s a head on the rates of last week. Fat sheep sold better by Is a head, and there was a revival in the demand for store hoggets and ewes and lambs. Fat lambs sold at slightly more than the expected export schedule. The best baconers and porkers showed little change. STORE SHEEP The store sheep yarding totalled 2078, comprising 1055 hoggets, 757 ewes and lambs, and 266 wethers. There was again a large attendance of ringsiders, and the sale showed an improvement on that of last week, especially so in the case of shorn hoggets. One pen of ewe hoggets, close woolled and in forward condition, made 27s 3d, and another of 80 smaller sheep sold for 25s 6d. Wether hoggets, also closed woolled, made from 22s 6d to 24s 6d. Ewes and lambs sold readily at late rates. Some of the ewes were in the wool, and these were probably the last of the woolly sheep to come forward. One pen of 35 woolly ewes and 42 Down lambs, many killable, made 17s 3d all counted, and another of 51 ewes with 52 Down lambs sold at 17s Id, while 97 ewes r'd 96 lambs realised 17s. A pen of 48 shorn ewes and 55 lambs made 11s Bd. Two pens of well-grown two-tooth wethers were forward, one of 73 making 24s 6d, and the other of 80 sold for 265. A few pens of halfbred sheep from Marlborough were passed in.

FAT LAMBS The fat lamb entry totalled about 700. and some well-finished lambs were forward. There was again a keen demand for the best and medium quality lambs, but the lighter lots were not sought after Prices generally were up to recent standards, with in some cases slightly higher, and ranged about the expected schedule price of BJd a lb. Best quality lambs sold up to 35s 7d, or about 9d a lb, and medium made from 25s 6d to 295, or about 8d a lb. A line of 28 lambs from Mr D. Banks, of Pendarves, sold at from 32s to 35s 7d, and other lines included 86 from 25s 4d to 28s lOd, 53 from 25s Id to 275, and 42 from 24s 6d to 30s. These figures represented the values of the bulk of the yarding, and there were very few passings.

FAT SHEEP The yarding of fat sheep was about 500 mere than last week’s total of 3500, the bulk again being ewes. With the limited supply of wethers there was keen competition for any pens showing quality. and prices were about Is up on recent rates. Young ewes also sold well, while older sheep, except heavyweights, were In more demand than recently, many buyers having to- look to the ewe section to satisfy their requirements. There were only a few woolly sheep forward, one line of 42 ewes making from 33s 7d to 37s Id, and 62 wethers sold from 37s 7d to 41s Id. The highest price for shorn aged ewes was 29s 7d, and for wethers 39s 7d, but there were many sales approaching these figures for both classes. One pen of young Southdown ewes sold for 34s 4d. The biggest line of wethers offered was 100, which realised from 32s 4d to 39s 7d. Another line of 50 made from 35s 7d to 38s 7d, and hoggest from the same source sold for 33s 7d. Values were:— Extra prime wethers to 39s 7d. Prime heavy wethers, 37s 6d to 395. Prime medium-weight wethers, 34s 6d to 375.

Light wethers to 32s 6d. Prime ewes. 31s to 34s 4d, Prime medium-weight ewes, 27s to 29s hj Light and ordinary ewes to 255.

FAT CATTLE The entry of fat cattle comprised 485 head, compared with 560 last week. West Coast truck lots were included and there were the usual consignments of prime lines from North Canterbury and the Peninsula. However, a larger proportion than usual were light mediumweights, but there were fome good pens of heifers forward. The market opened at a sharp drop on the rates of last sale for the lighter cattle, which were first olfered, but the weightier sorts, of which there was a smaller display, sold towards the end of the sale with good competition. On an average values were down on those of last week by 20s a head. The drop is seasonal, and was anticipated ni view of the greater supplies of lamb now available and the fairly heavy penning of cattle coming forward. Best steer beef made from 44s to 46s 6d per 1001b, a few specially sought after pens a shade more, medium to good 40s to 42s 6d, ordinary to 37s 6d, and Inferior cow beef to 30s. Values were as under:— Extra prime heavy steers, £l9 10s to £22 2s 6d. Prime heavy steers. £l7 to £lB l!s. Prime medium-weight steers, £ls to £l6 15s. Ordinary steers. £l2 5s to £l4 ss. Extra prime heifers to £l6 7s 6d. Prime heifers, £ll 3s to £l3 ss. Medium heifers, £8 10s to £ll. Light heifers to £B. Extra prime cows to £l4 12s 6d. Prime cows, £9 5s to £ll ss. Medium cows, £7 5s to £9. Inferior cows, £5 15s to £7.

Some good averages were secured notwithstanding the easier scale of prices. A. R. Menzies (Menzles Bay) sold six steeis at an average of £l9 10s; Mrs Dledrichs (Lower Kokatahi), eight at £l9 2s fid; and the estate of the late Sir Charles Clifford (Stonyhxust), 16at from £l6 17s 6d to £22 2s 6d. VEALERS

There was a small entry in the vealer section, comprising a good proportion of large runners and ordinary calves. Quality suckers were yarded in smaller numbers than last week, and small calves were also fewer. The total forward was slightly in excess of butchers’ requirements, owing to the greater lamb supplies and the warmer weather, and the sale was generally slack. Large prime runners made from £5 8s 6d to £8 3s 6d, others £3 11s to £4 IBs 6d. Good quality vealers made from £3 11s to £5 Is; others from £2 11s to £3 8s 6d. Large calves, 43s to 525; medium calvers. 30s to 425; and small calves, 6s to 28s.

STORE CATTLE Only a few lines of straight-coloured cattle were included in the small entry in the store cattle section, and there was a good sale for them. A pen of 10 Shorthorn steers, three-year-olds, from the West Coast, in ordinary condition, sold at £l3 8s 6d. and another of seven twoyear to three-year Shorthorn steers at £lO Is. With the exception of a small pen of Jersey yearling heifers. which made £5 18s 6d. the remainder of the entry was comprised of odd pens of cows. DAIRY COWS There was a small entry in the dairy section, comprising only 30 odd head. Quality again was of the usual indifferent class. Only the few animals showing good milking qualities met with free competition. For these there was an Improvement in values of 20s a head. Inferior sorts were again hard to sell. Values were;— Best second and third calvers, £9 10s to £l2 10s.

Average sorts, £6 10s to £9. Others, £3 10s to £5 15s. Best heifers, £lO 10s to £l2 10s, one specially good, £l6. Good heifers, £7 10s to £lO. Small and indifferent heifers, £5 5s to £7.

FAT PIGS The entry of porkers was of medium size, and only quality pigs were in demand. Plain and unfinished and over-fat sorts met with a very dragging sale. Included in the entry was a largo proportion of light-weight pigs, and over the latter half of the sale these were selling at values similar to those for large stores Good porkers practically maintained last week's values. Choppers were again in over-supply and there was a further easing in values of about 10s a head In the bacon section the yarding was about halt of that of last week. Competition showed very little change, last week’s values being maintained throughout. Values were:— Light porkers 41s 6d to 49s Gd, medium 52s 6d to 59s 6d, heavy £3 2s 6d to £3 14s 6d. Average price per lb, 7Jd to 9d. Choppers, £2 5s to £4 10s. Light baconcrs, £3 14s 8d to £4, medium £4 2s 6d to £4 6s 6d, heavy £4 9s 6d to £4 16s 6d. Average price per lb, 6Jd to 7id.

STORE PIGS The entry in the store pig section was of fair size and there was a good attendance of buyers. The high prices of last week's sale were not maintained, there being an easing of from 2s to 2s 6d a head generally. Values were:-r Small weaners 18s to 21s, medium 22s to 255, best up to 30s. Slips, 30s to 355. Small stores 37s to 40s, medium 41s to 455, large 46s to 525. BURNSIDE (P A.) DUNEDIN, December 2. There was a smaller yarding of cattle at Burnside to-day, and this had the effect of improving prices. The sale opened with prices up to 30s a head better on last week's rates. It fluctuated as it pro-

gressed and was easier in places to a little above last week’s prices. The yarding comprised mostly medium to prime sorts. Cows were in over supply and the poorer grade were not Inquired for. Best bullocks brought up to £23 2s 6d. best heifers to £l6 17s 6d, and best cows to £l4 17s 6d. Fat sheep were practically all ewes which did not have the quality of the last few weeks, while wethers were in very short supply. Prices were, for ewes, easier by 3s a head. Best shorn young ewes brought up to 30s, and best shorn wethers to 34s 6d. The yarding of fat lambs was larger than that of last week, and the sale was a good one throughout. Best sorts brought up to 37s 6d, and prime averaged from 32s 6d to 36s Gd. The yarding of fat pigs was larger than usual, prices being barely up to those prevailing recently. Best baconers brought up to £5 17s, while good porkers ranged from £4 4s to £4 i4s. The store cattle entry was a limited one, and comprised two or three pens of well-bred steers in forward condition, these making from £l4 17s 6d to £ls. Vealers were also in short supply and met with ready competition.