ADDINGTON MARKET Sharply Easier Values In Store Calf Sale

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28888, 7 May 1959, Page 8

ADDINGTON MARKET Sharply Easier Values In Store Calf Sale

It is a long time since conditions have been so unpleasant as they were at Addington market yesterday. The store sheep and store cattle sales were held in cold driving rain. These conditions meant that smaller galleries followed the sheep sales, which are held in the open, but for the cattle sale, at which there is some shelter, there was a surprisingly large following.

Under conditions of reduced competition prices came back in nearly all sections. Heifer and steer calves of average and lesser quality and condition were cheaper by 20s to 40s and adult cattle were also easier. A line of more than 200 station two and a half year old steers averaged between £29 and £39 a head.

Apart from the best lambs, store lambs were easier by fully 4s to 5s and in the adult sheep section older ewes of inferior quality showed an easing. In these sections there were a number of passings. The entry of store sheep totalled 8158 compared with 11,254 last week and comprised 4764 lambs, 261 two-tooth ewes, 2717 older ewes and 416 wethers. STORE LAMBS

For a smallish yarding of store lambs, there was a weak market, except for the very best. The entry totalled 4764, compared with 5957 last week. The weather certainly did not improve the appearance of the lambs, but on the whole quality was no more than fair.

The day did not favour the sale. The gallery was small and with the onset of wintry conditions farmers could hardly be expected to be very enthusiastic about taking on more lambs. Still, for the few good pens of lambs there was still a reasonably good sale, with values close to late rates to a shade easier. For medium and lower condition sheep, however, values were generally back 4s or 5s and in cases much more, and a number of pens had to be passed in.

Wether lambs sold to 43s for Down cross and to 40s for Romneys, with good lambs making from 34s upwards, average 24s to 30s, and light and plain from 14s to 225. Shorn wether lambs made from 33s 6d to 38s for the best, and 26s to 30s for the balance. A pen of Corriedale ewe lambs brought 43s 6d, with other ewe lambs at 13s to 17s 6d.

S. Henderson (Kaituna) received 43s for 32 Down cross, and for 100 Corriedales the estate R. B. Johnson (Sandhurst) secured 40s 6d. Forty-three Romney wether lambs from E. P. Hole (Timaru) realised 40s, and J. G. Cran (Windwhistle) was paid 39s for 98 halfbreds. A small consignment of 21 shorn wether lambs from P. O. Legg (Sheffield) made 38s. For 123 Corriedale ewe lambs, E. A. Dennis (Hororata) obtained 43s 6d. Sales included:—

Dalgety and Company sold: on account of estate F. and J. Northcote (Whalesback), 125 wether lambs at 13s to 245; C. D. Thornley (Medbury), 130 wether lambs at Ils to 235; G. W. Wright (Glentunnel), 317 Romney wether lambs at 20s to 38s; L. M. Doody (Whitecliffs), 67 wether lambs at 15s 6d, 55 ewe lambs at 13s; R. and N. M. L. Galletly (Whitecliffs), 159 Romney wether lambs at 20s to 38s; J. G. Cran (Windwhistle),

117 halfbred wether lambs at 24s to 395; J. Dick and Son (Greymouth), 58 lambs at 28s; Bruce Bros. (Ahaura), 22 lambs at 25s 6d; W. Bainbridge (Cheviot), 37 lambs at 265; H. J. Relling (Cronadun), 307 lambs at Ils 6d to 22s 6d; A. R. Hill (Ngahere), 77 lambs at 26s to 31s; W. Stevenson (Oxford), 148 lambs at 13s 6d to 28s.

National and Agency and H. Matson and Company sold: on account of A. T. Stone (Hororata), 131 wether lambs at 345; H. S. McKay (Timaru), 56 wether lambs at 225; E. P. Hole (Timaru), 43 Romney wether lambs at 40s; S. Henderson (Kaituna), 32 Down cross wether lambs at 435; client, 118 shorn wether lambs at 30s; L. P. Taylor (Parnassus), 142 wether lambs at 20s to 255; E. P. Jones (Hokitika), 36 wether lambs at 24s 6d; The Rock Station (Wharenui), 35 wether lambs at 15s 6d; West Coast client, 90 wether lambs at 19s to 22s 6d; E. F. Hyde (Tinwald), 48 wether lambs at 24s 6d; Long Bay Farm (Akaroa), 90 wether lambs at 225; J. Harrison (Oxford), 94 wether lambs at 22s 6d to 30s; L. T. Kerston (Ross), 176 wethers at 14s to 20s 6d.

New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association. Ltd., sold: on account of E. A. Dennis (Hororata). 123 Corriedale ewe lambs at 43s 6d. and 54 wether lambs at 225; D. S. Costello (Cheviot). 41 wether lambs at' 17s: D. H. Gillies (Clarence), 180 wether lambs at 20s 6d to 345; D. and R. McLaughlin (Dunsandel), 125 wether lambs at 15s to 21s; I. D. Constable (Oxford). 76 wether lambs at 20s; S. F. Jones (Glenavy). 233 wether lambs at 23s 6d to 28s 6d.

Gould. Guinness Ltd., sold: on account of P. O. Legg (Sheffield). 21 shorn wether lambs at 38s; C. W. H. Crotty (Le Bon’s Bav). 103 at 20s to 325; R. T. Newton (Bramdean). 204 shorn wether lambs at 20s to 33s 6d; Castle Hill Station (Springfield), 140 ewe lambs at 16s to 17s 6d; estate R. B. Johnson (Sandhurst), 182 wether lambs at 23s to 40s 6d. EWES There were only about half a dozen pens of two-tooth ewes of ordinary quality, and at auction only about one of these found a buyer at There was a small yarding of older ewes of mediocre quality, and the sale attracted only a small following of purchasers and spectators. For the few serviceable sheep on offer there was an inquiry at from par to 2s easier, but for nondescript types which would have been hard selling on any day, sales were difficult to make at even 3s to 4s easier, and some pens did not find buyers at all. The best of the selection sold at 34s to 355. with average at 22s to 28s. and others at 10s to 15s. Top price for older ewes was 355. said for the tops of 213 four-vear-old halfbreds mated with Southdown rams on April 1 from R. L. Rutherford (Hawarden), which ranged from 34s and for 95 four and five-vear-old halfbreds. mated with Southdown and Southdown-Border Leicester rams on February 24. from I. Rovds (Harewood). For 115 four, six. and ‘■ight-tooth ewes. W. H. Faulkner 'Kowai Bush) received 35s 6d. Among sales were:—

New Zealand farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd., sold: on account of Amberley client. 73 two and fourtooth ewes at 225: D. and R. McLaughlin (Dunsandel), 105 ewes at

Dalgety and Company. Ltd., soldon account of R. L. Rutherford (Hawarden). 213 ewes mated with Down rams April 1, at 34s to 355; W H Faulkner (Kowai Bush). 115 fourx and eight-tooth ewes at 35s 6d; client, 122 ewes at 9s 6d

Pyne, Gould. Guinness Ltd., sold: °/ J' R °y d s (Harewood), 95 a I 355; A. Collins (Broadfield). 29 at 30s; Ashburton client. 75 at 22s 6dAshburton client, 172 at 20s to 225. Nationa! Mortgage and Agency and H. Matson and Company sold: on account of L. W. Wright (Halswell). L* Romney cross ewes at 28s 6d- L F. Done (Bankside). 66 halfbred ewes at 295; H. A. Harris (Waiau) 84 end? % 28s: E - 7 Walker (Woodend) 66 ewes at 275; J. Retallick (Amberley). 59 ewes at 28s; A M Parker (Waiau). 222 ewes at 20s- A J. Harris (Timaru), 130 ewes at 245.

WETHERS en l ry of 416 "’ethers the sale followed recent price levels fairly closely, with the bulk of the tween°J7 tWO ‘i°=l hS b ?’’ ng made *>etween 43s and 535, with one pen of old wethers selling down to 18? 6d C. R. Watson (Oxford) headed the market with 49 selling at 53s Representative sales were:— New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-: tive Association. Ltd., sold- on account of C. R. Watson (Oxford) 49 Costello (Cheviot) 29* at 4?s S: 6d C ' Early (Oxf ° rd ). 19 National Mortgage and Agencv L Z? ’ and H ' Matson and Zt sold ir°t? accou nt of Woods IBs* 6 f d (L Valley) ’ 70 wethers at

Dalgety and Company, Ltd. sold?Pn acco Y nt of Hillside (Rangiora) 1 W two-tooth wethers at 43s to 44s

STORE CALVES nni he - e . nt of store calves at q™Jthi2nd Uding 3 co P si £ nm ent from Southland. was a little lower than last week and quality was not as ?2s’ d as as been at recent sales Although the sale was held in extremely unpleasant conditions there ?’ as a reas °nably good following' of hE?Si atO u S ‘ but , corn P etition could hardl y be described as keen. For tn P ens values were close ate rates to a shade easier, but for average and poorer sorts of both steer and heifer calves there was a sharp easing of from 20s to 40s on recent modest rates. The calf market was topped bv a cut of nine Hereford heifer calves from J. A. Calder (Culverden) which w er C j b° u ght for the trade at £l7 H lrf h i P h* k A? tatiOn < Raka ' a Gorge) sold eight Aberdeen Angus or°ss steer calves at £l5 8s 6d and A. M. Deans (Kilmarnock) received the same money for 11 Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross. Rockwood , Ltd - (Hororata) had a sale of black steer calves at up to £l5 Is and a south client sold a cut of similar steer calves at £l4 16s. Apart from the top-priced he ifer calves. High Peak Station also sold Herefords at up to £l4 8s 6d and an unnamed vendor also received £l4 3s 6d for Herefords. The following is a range of values for calves:—

Steer Calves.—Best Aberdeen Angus. £l3 13s 6d to £l5 Is, average £lO Ils to £l2 Ils, and others downs to £8 8s 6d. Best Aberdeen Angus and Aberdeen Angus-Here-ford cross, £l3 18s 6d to £l5 18s’ 6d - average to plain £7 3s 6d to £lO 8s 6d. Best Hereford and Hereford cross, £l4 Is to £l4 8s 6d, average £lO 18s 6d to £ll 3s 6d. small and plain £5 6s to £8 8s 6d Best Shorthorn and Shorthorn cross to £l3 18s 6d, others £7 18s 6d to £ll 3s 6d. Heifer Calves.—Best Aberdeen

AngUs to £ll 13s 6d, average £B*l3s 6d to £lO 8s 6d, others £6 Ils to £7 18s 6d. Best Aberdeen Angus and Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross, £ll Ils to £l2 18s 6d, average to plain £5 8s 6d to £8 3s 6d. Best Hereford £l3 18s 6d to £l4 8s 6d, with one sale at £l7 13s 6d and others down to £7 8s 6d. Best Shorthorn and Shorthorn cross to £l2 3s 6d, and others £6 18s 6d to £9 3s 6d. Sales included:—

Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., sold: on account of C. L. Bary (Claverley), 13 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £8 8s 6d; estate L. C. Gardiner (Woodchester), 35 Aberdeen Angus heifer calves at £6 Ils to £7 18s 6d; estate G. W. Forbes (Cheviot), 17 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l4 8s 6d; High Peak Station (Rakaia Gorge), 8 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £l5 B*s 6d, 52 Hereford steer calves at £5 6s to £lO 18s 6d. 31 Hereford heifer calves at £7 8s 6d to £l4 8s 6d; S. E. Patten (Kaituna), 8 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £7 3s 6d; O. Hartley (Lincoln), 8 Friesian heifer calves at £lO 13s 6d.

National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., and H. Matson and Company sold: on account of J. A. and E. R. • Dalton (Parnassus), 20 Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross heifer calves at £6 18s 6d; N.Z. and Australian Land Company (Hawarden), 11 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £7 18s 6d, 28 Hereford steer calves at £6 13s 6d to £7 Is, 23 Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves at £5 8s 6d to £7 13s 6d; south client, 17 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l4 16s, 17 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £l3 18s 6d, 13 Aberdeen Angus heifer calves at £ll 13s 6d; McLeod and Scott (Waiau), 16 Aberdeen Angus cross heifer calves at £l2 18s 6d; estate D. Wood (Lees Valley), 13 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l2 Ils, 9 Aberdeen Angus heifer calves at £7 3s 6d; A. J. Scott (Coalgate), 4 Shorthorn cross steer calves at £7 18s 6d, 8 Shorthorn cross heifer calves at £6 18s 6d; J. O. Douglass (Waikouaiti), 34 Hereford-Shorthorn steer calves at £ll 3s 6d.

New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd., sold: on account of client, 38 Hereford heifer calves at £lO 13s 6d to £l4 3s 6d.

Dalgety and Company Ltd., sold: on account of I. S. Douglas (Ethelton), 34 Shorthorn-Hereford cross steer calves at £ll 3s 6d to £l3 18s 6d, 25 heifer calves at £9 3s 6d to £l2 3s 6d; W. T. Paine & Son (Cheviot), 43 Aberdeen Angus cross steer calves at £lO 18s 6a to £l4 Is, 34 heifer calves at £6 18s 6d to £8 3s 6d; Rockwood Farm, Ltd. (Hororata), 19 Aberdeen Angus steer calves at £l3 13s 6d to £l5 Is, 13 heifer calves at £6 18s 6d to £lO 8s 6d; A. M. Deans (Kilmarnock), 11 Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross steer calves at £l5 8s 6d. 10 heifer calves at £ll Ils, 23 Hereford steer calves at £ll 3s 6d to £l4 Is; estate J. L. Ensor (Cheviot), 18 Aberdeen Angus and heifer calves at £7 18s 6d to £8 13s 6d, 20 steer calves at £lO Ils to £l2 3s 6d.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency sold: on account of J. A. Calder (Culverden), 21 Hereford steer calves at £8 8s 6d to £l4 8s 6d. 22 Hereford heifer calves at £l3 18s 6d to £l7 13s 6d.

ADULT CATTLE The offering of adult cattle at 533 head included 236 two-and-a-half-year-old Aberdeen Angus, Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross, and Hereford steers from the St. James Station, Hanmei. Selling at slightly less than late rates, the bulk of the station offering ranged from £26 to £34. with the tup pen reaching £4l 3s 6d. The average for the line was about £29 7s 6d.

The market for cows, of which there was again a fair number in the entry, was easier by 20s to 40s. Cows sold up to £23 3s 6d for nine Aberdeen Angus from the estate L. C. Gardiner (Woodchester). The following is a range of values for adult cattle:— Two and a half-year-old steers.— Best £32 to £4l 3s 6d. good £27 to £32. others £2l to £25.

Twenty months-old steers, up to £29 Is.

Eighteen months-old heifers, £l3 13s 6d to £25 18s 6d.

Cows, best £l9 8s 6d to £23 18s 6d, average £l6 Ils to £l7 18s 6d. others £8 17s 6d to £l3 18s 6d.

Among sales were:— Pyne, Gould, Guinness Ltd., sold: on account of T. P. Shand (Blue Duck), 29 Aberdeen Angus cows at £l3 13s 6d to £l9 8s 6d; estate L. C. Gardiner (Woodchester), 9 Aberdeen Angus cows at £23 3s 6d; S. E. Patten (Kaituna), 8 Aberdeen Angus cows at £8 13s 6d; O. Hartley (Lincoln), 8 18 months Friesian heifers at £l5 18s 6d.

National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., and H. Matson and Company sold: on account of R. A. Harcourt (Koiterangi), 23 two and a half-year-old Aberdeen Angus steers at £2l 3s 6d to £26 Is Id; N.Z. and Aust. Land Company (Hawarden), 18 months Aberdeen Angus cross heifers at £l3 3s 6d; J. A. and E. R. Dalton (Parnassus), 45 HerefordAberdeen Angus cross in-calf cows. £l3 Is to £l9 18s 6d. 36 Aberdeen Angus cross in-calf cows at £l6 Ils to £l9 13s 6d.

Dalgety and Company, Ltd., sold: on account of client, 7 twenty months Aberdeen Angus steers at £29 Is: estate J. L. Ensor (Cheviot), 14 cows at £l3 18s 6d to £l7 8s 6d; R. R. and G. J. Laidlaw (Kaikoura), 10 cows at £l5 8s 6d to £23 18s 6d, 5 two and half-year-old Aberdeen Angus steers at £26 18s 6d.

New Zealand Farmers* Co-op. Association, Ltd., sold: on account of estate James Stevenson (St. James’ Station. Hanmer), 7 two and half-year-old steers at £4l 3s 6d, 120 Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross two and a half-year-old steers at £27 3s 6d to £34 3s 6d, 78 Aberdeen Angus two and a half-year-old steers at £26 3s 6d to £3l 18s 6d. 31 Hereford steers at £25 13s 6d to £3O 8s 6d.

Tinwald Stock Sale

The fat sheep entry was slightly bigger than last week, and all classes of fat sheep other than lambs showed a decline of several shillings a head, at the Tinwald stock sale on Tuesday. Following is a range of prices:—

Fat Ewes. —Light-weight, down to 15s Id; medium. 18s Id to 20s Id; prime, 21s Id to 24s Id. Two-tooth Wethers —Light-weights, down to 42s Id; medium, 50s Id to 52s Id: prime, 53s Id to 58s Id. Maiden Ewes. —38s Id to 41s Id. Old Wethers.—33s Id to 38s Id. Fat Lambs.—Light, 40s Id to 45s Id; medium. 46s Id to 51s Id; prime heavy, 52s Id to 57s Id. The store lamb yarding was one of the biggest this year, with an entry of lambs both carry-over and of forward condition. Weather conditions were no help to the market, and all sheep showed a decline of up to 5s a head. The best of the wether lambs made 38s a head. Medium sorts from 22s to 30s, with culls as low as Bs. The entry of ewe lambs was also big. but some very good Romney lambs made up to 525, with medium quality lambs from 38s to 455, and cull ewe lambs down to 15s. The entry of store sheep was smaller, but for one line of good Romney ewes. The rest were of medium quality, prices ranging for mated ewes from 15s to 375.