LIVE STOCK MARKET

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 18, 16 October 1930, Page 14

LIVE STOCK MARKET

Addington Prices Advance FAT CATTLE AND SHEEP FIRM By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, October 15. Small entries were the rule at the weekly market at Addington to-day, and a feature was a sharp advance in values for fat sheep and fat cattle. In the fat cattle pens the entry was 100 head less than at the previous market, and competition was made exceptionally keen by the shortness ot supply. It was " o| c worthy that the bulk of the offering of extra prime and prime cattle cnine from outside Canterbury province. 1 nines over the whole sale advanced £1 to £l/10/- a head, nnd at stages of the sale the increase in values as compared with last week was ns much as £2 a head. , Fat sheep did not total as many head as at last sale, and they soltl with a gen oral advance in values of 2/- to ,/t> a neau Spring lambs were ply, 314 head ns compared with 71 at last week’s market. Consequent upon the large sl7o of the offering values eased consider ably the X r * recently beinpr about 10/“ a head. A smal entry 5? store sheep met with a very b?ight sale, nnd values throughout wore advanced on late rates by V- to 1/6 a head Values were: Good ewe bo gcts, 19/9 to 21/6:. medium ewe hoggets, 10/aito 17/3; wether hoggets to>l3/4: medium.four and six-tooth halfbred wethers 17/6 to 19/7; ordinary four and six-tooth haltMCO wethers to 14/4: good ewes and lamb W counted) to 16/6: ordinary ewes and lambs (all counted), 8/0 to, 11 / 10 ' nrice ner Spring Lambs-The nverag * price, per wT/verv coo?L’ Values were: Extra prime ™mb?to 31/10; prime lambs 26 6 to 28/6; medium lambs, to , b la Fat ’Sheep-— A -3 sm'aller entry than at the and the West Coast. Biddin„ J aB h ™ v y hriqk Values were: Extra prime uea j wethers to 40/1; P ri Yu?nrfme wethers’ 29/6 to 33/6: medium-weight prime we the , 27/6 to 29/-: second quality wetlilers, ->/ ?y°27A: light wethers, 21/ to 24/6; extra ?„ ri S/6: mmilnm ew£, 20/- to 24/6; light ewes, 17/- to 19/-. Fat Cattle Sell Well. and prices advanced by £1 to il/W : , I e p a £” n a d h a :ad Om Th beef a tie from 48/- to. 53/in Hip ease of a few single beasts a ntue above that figure. Heavy steer beef made fmm 40/- to 45/-; cow beef, to 40/ , or "S h ™ Si.T’b.S s . ¥ ” W-y-f’S’S extra Uptime heifers, to £lB/17/6; prime, Av to £l6/10/-: medium heifers £ll W/- to £l2/15/-: light £11; 6 £1”/?5A e to° W £i3 medf/m’ K fiio/IOA to £l2/10/-; light and aged, £ v2 ! fprs—Tlie o/ entry was of a fair size, but the quality generally was indifferent. The sale wa* one with no change in late rates. The top price was £7/8/6. Store Cattle.—The offering was a full one, but of very mixed quality. The sale was not a keen one, and there were frequent passings. There was little demand for yearlings, which comprised a big proportion of the yarding. Good fresh cows made up to £6/5/-, and potting bulls to £o/10/-. There were few bulls penned. Dairy Cattle.—The yarding totalled 4-, as compared with 47 last week. The quality of the yarding was very much better than last week. The top price was £ll 5/-. The demand for cows in profit was poor, but there was a good demand for springing heifers. The range of prices was:—Best third and fourth calvers, £9 to £ll/5/-; medium sorts, £6/10/- to £B/10/-; inferior sorts, £4 to£s/10/-; good springings heifers, £B/10/- to £lO/5/-; medium sorts, £6 to £8; inferior sorts, £4 to £5; cows in profit, £5 to £B. Fat Pigs.—The demand was steady, though prices for bacon were a little easier than those ruling at the previous sale. Pork prices were unchanged. Values were: — Porkers, 45/- to 55/-; heavy porkers, 57/6 to 70/-; average price per lb, B}d. to 9Jd,; baconers. £3/15/6 to £4/12/6; heavy baconers, to '£6/14/6; average price per lb., 7d. to 7}d.; choppers, £3 to £B/13/6. Store Pigs.—There was again a small yarding and the bulk of It consisted of slips and wenners, large stores being in very short supply. The sale was a keen one throughout at late rates. Values were: Large stores, 40/- to 54/0; medium, 35/to 39/6; small, 30/- to 34/6; good weaners and slips, 26/- to 32/6; small weaners, 16/- to 24/6. BURNSIDE VALUES Fat Sheep Advance By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, October 15. There was a bright tone in the Burnside stock sale to-day and with one or two exceptions prices wexe firm. Fat cattle and sheep, spripg lambs and porkers met with a good demand, especially the sheep. The fat cattle yarding consisted of 281 head, mostly good quality cattle, with some extra heavy bullocks and a fair proportion of heifers and cows. The sale opened under keen competition at a reduction of 15/- a head, but values improved later and a good sale resulted, closing values being equal to the rates obtained at th'e previous sale. Prime bullocks made from £25 to £27/5/-; medium. £2l/5/-; light, £l6/2/6; heavy heifers, £l6: medium, £l2/10/-; heavy cows from £l2/17/- to £l3/15/-; medium. £ll/15/-. The entry of fat sheep comnrised 1500 head of very good quality. There was a fair percentage of prime crossbred wethers, a few extra good ewes and a sprinkling of medium-weight sheep. There was keen competition, and opening sales showed an advance of 2/6 and 3/- a head. These values improved as the sale advanced and closing rates showed an advance of 4/- a head ail round. Extra heavy wethers made to 40/-: prime. 37/3; medium. 33/-: extra prime ewes, 34/3: prime, 23/-; medium, 19/-. Prime mutton 'sold at prices equivalent to about s}d. a lb. . The entry ot CO hoggets showed rair quality. The yarding met with a good demand, prices ranging from 16/- to 23/- a h °An' entry of 24 spring lambs showed fair to prime quality. The yarding met w th brisk competition and late rates were maintained. Heavy lambs made 46/8. medium 37/-, good 33/-'. and light 24/-. Prime lamb sold on a basis of about 1/3 per lb. The store cattle entry included 3> three and four-year-old steers. Competition was not brisk and there was no improvement in prices. Three-year-old steers in good condition made £lO. good £B, 14-year-olds £5/4/-, and yearling lipifers £2/7/“» In the plff entry 50 fats and 56 stores were offered. Very few porkers were forward, and this class sold at firm rates but baconers were easier to the extent °! about 5/- a head. Prime porkers sold on a basis' of about BJd. and prime baconers about Bd. per lb. AUCKLAND MARKET . Lambs and Pigs Easier By Telegraph. — Press Associauun Auckland, October 15. At Westfield sale to-day cattle beef was penned in average numbers, and there was a steady demand with values firm. at late rates. Extra choice ox sold to per 1001 b.; choice and prime, £l/lt>/- to £l/18/-; ordinary and plain, £l/12/- to CI/15/-’ prime young cow and better beet, £l/15/- to £l/17/-; ordinary cow beef. £l/9/- to £l/14/-. Extra heavy prime steers ranged in price £r ,°m £l4/10/- to ’.15/17/(1; heavy prime. £1.,/lU/- to a,i-i ./(>; lighter prime, £l2/15/- to £l3/7/6: ii'dit prime, £ll to £l2/2/6; unfinished and small, £9 to £ll/15/-: extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, .£.)/10/to £lO/15/-; heavy prime, £8 to £9/o/-: lighter, £7 to £7/17/6; light cows, £6 to £O/17/6; other cows, £3/10/- to £•> ld Slieep.—An average number was yarded. There was a steady demand for prime wethers, which were firm at late rates, linflnished sheep were again dull of sale. Shorn heavy prime wethers made £l/o/to £l/0/6; woolly, £l/7/- to £l/9/-, shorn medium prime wethers, £l/3/- to £l/4/9; woolly. £l/4/- to £l/6/6; shorn light, prime wethers, £l/1/- to £l/2/9; woolly. £1 to £l/3/9; shorn small and unfinished wethers, 15/- to £1; woolly. 12/6 to 19/-; shorn prime ewes, 10/- to 14/-; woolly, 15/- to 19/-; prime hoggets In wool, 19/- to £l/6/6; shorn, 14/6 to 19/0; unfinished hoggets, woolly, 14/- to

18/6; shorn, 11/6 to 15/-. Spring Lambs. —Large numbers were penned ,hnd although there was a steady demand, values were lower. Prime lambs sold at from 14/- to £l/2/6; small and unfinished, from 10/- upward. Pigs.—An average number was penned. Although there was a steady demand values were easier on last week's quotations. Choppers sold from £2/10/- to £3/2/6; heavy and medium baconers, £2 17/- to £3/3/-; light baconers and heavy porkers, £2/11/- to £2/15/-; medium and light porkers, £2 to £2/9/-; small and unfinished porkers,. £l/10/- to £l/18/-. There was a very small yarding of store pigs. Values were slightly easier. Large stores, £l/10/- to £l/16/-; slips, £l/3/- to £l/8/-: weaners, 10/- to £l/1/-. Calves.—There was a poor demand and values dropped -considerably on late quotations, except for good quality vealers, which sold at values on a par with late rates. Runners made £5 to £7/13/-: heavy, vealers, £3/16/- to £4/6/-; medium, £3/5/- to £3/15/-; light. £2/10/- to £3 3/-; smaller, £l/15/- to £2/5/-; small and fresh dropped, 7/- to £l/12/-; rough calves, 10/- to £l. JOHNSONVILLE SALE Sheep Prices Decline At Johnsonville yesterday Wright, Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., aud Abraham and Williams, Ltd., offered a riiedium yarding of good quality cattle and a large yarding of all classes of sheep. The cattle yarding comprised mostly good heavyweight bullocks with a tew pens of lighter sorts. There was only a small entry of cows and vealers. Prices were on a par with last week’s rates. All classes of sheep showed a decline in values, wethers being down 1/- to 1/6 per head, ewes 2/6. while spring lambs were decidedly easier, the drop being from 3/- to 4/- per head. Hcavv bullocks. £l7/7/6, £l6/15/-, £l6 12/6, £l6/5/-, £l6/2/6; bullocks, £l5 17/6. £l5/15/-, £l5/10/-, £l5/5/-; bullocks. light nnd unfinished. £l4/15/-. £l4 10/-, £l4/7/6; cows, dairv sorts, £B/15/-, £B/5/-, £B/2/6; vealers, £4/4/-, £2/10/-; heavy woollv wethers, 30/6, 30/-. 29/0, 29/6: medium woolly wethers, 27/9, 27/3, 26/10: heavy shorn wethers. 27/6, 27/2, 26/6; extra heavy woolly ewes. 21/9. 20/6. 19/9; woollv ewes. 18/9, 18/6. 18/-; shorn ewes, 17/3, 16/10; hoggets, 23/9. 22/6, 22/-, •’l/7. 20/-, 19/6; spring lambs, 24/-, 23/3. 22/7, 21/-, 20/3, 19/4, 18/-, 16/9, 15/-. MASTERTON CATTLE FAIR At Masterton on Monday, Levin and Co., Ltd. and the Wairarapa Farmers’ Cooperative Association, Ltd., held their first spring eattle fair. The yarding, which numbered between 600 and 700 head, in most cases showed the effects of the dry autumn and wore very backward in condition. Buyers from outside districts were not operating to any extent and nearly the whole ot the entry was sold locally. The following were some of the prices realised:—A/c Kahumingi: Three-year P.A. steers! good condition, £B/11/-, £B/10/-, £B/7/6. A/c Awatoitol: Three-year P.A. and Hereford cross steers. £B/5/-; twovoar steers. £O/1/-: emntv P.A. cows, £6 10/- nnd £6/5/-. A/c Bramerton: Threcvoar PA. steers, backward condition. £7 3/-' A/c Walteko: Three-year P.A. steers, cood condition. £B/6/-; one-year P.A. Siners £4/9/-. A/c J. Douglas: Four-ycar steers, £9/1/-. A/c Rewanui: Two-year p A steers, £6, £5/15/-; empty cows, PA.', £6/10/-. A/c Edmonds Bros.: Twovenr Hereford steers, backward condition. A/1/- A/c Manawa: Two-year P.A. Meers, £5/19/-; two-year P.A. heifers, £o V- A/c Bank View: One-year P.A. heifers, small, £2/10/-. MASTERTON PRICES At Masterton to-day the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Distributing Co., Tld held their usual weekly sale, offering a medium entry of sheep, cattle, and pigs to n’ small attendance. Bidding was not brisk but the whole yarding was sold at prices on a par with recent sales, except that fat ewes were a little better. Prices were :—Fat woolly ewes, 22/6; light do., 17/6’ fat shorn wethers. 24/-; fat woolly hoggets. 17/4: fat shorn 2-tooth Downs, 18/6- b.f. hoggets. 12/3. 13/-, to 16/6; medium ewe hoggets, 16/-; shorn owes to lamb, 11/3; woolly store ewes, 19/8 to 11/9; ewes and iambs (all counted). 9/3. Pigs: Good porkers, £2; weaners, 23/6; yearling Jersey bull, £4/5/-; woolpress, £#.