LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 285, 29 August 1935, Page 14

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Price Movements at Yesterday’s Sales

Prices at the various live stock sales yesterday were variable. At Addington, where smaller entries were offered, store sheep declined by from 1/- to 2/- a head. Eat wethers eased !/-, show sorts selling to 38/4. Ewes were unchanged. Spring lambs sold to 30/6. Prime fa.t cattle sold at last, week’s rates, other sorts easing 10/- a head. Best beef sold to 28/- per 1001 b. Fat cattle at Auckland sold at very firm rates, best beef making 30/- per 1001 b. Eat sheep were also firm, wethers selling up to 33/-. Spring lambs made to 27/-. At Stortford Lodge, Hastings fat cattle were very firm, best cow beef advancing 10/- a head. Store cattle were unchanged. Fat sheep were in short supply, ewes being 1/- to 1/6 a head dearer. Wethers and hoggets were steady. Fat sheep at Wanganui made very firm prices, ewes advancing by up to 2/6 a head. Fat cattle were also firmer. At Johnsonville wethers were in short supply, and advanced by from 6d. to 1/- a head. Prime cattle were firm. At Dunedin heavy offerings of cattle caused prices to ease by from 10/- to 20/- a head. Wethers were 1/- a head cheaper.

Addington Market By Telegrapti Press association Christchurch, August 28. Entries were slightly smaller at the Addington market to-day iu the major sections of stock, and values were slightly weaker. Store sheep: Several days of north-westers and heavy frosts have cheeked pasture growth, and this was reflected in the drop in values of both ewes and ewe hoggets of 1/6 to 2/- a head and of wether hoggets by 1/-. Spring lambs: The best of a few pens of spring lambs sold at 30/6. Fat sheep: Some exceptionally gooj lines of ewes were forward from Otago and Mid-Canterbury and of wethers from Mid-Canterbury. Wethers were down by 1/- a head; ewes unchanged. Show wethers sold to 38/4; extra prime. 29/6 to 31/6; prime heavy, 26/3 to_ 29/-; prime medium weight, 24/- to 25/9; ordinary, 20/6 to 23/3; extra prime heavy ewes, to 29/7; prime" heavy, 21/6 to 23/-; prime medium weight, 17/6 to 20/6; ordinary and light, to 17/-. Fat cattle: An entry of 455 compared with 644 last week. Outside entries were fewer. Best steens and cows fairly maintained last week’s easieer values, but all other classes were down by 10/a head. Best beef made from 26/- to 28/- per 1001 b., in a few cases to 30/-; average quality. 22/6 to 25/-; extra prime heavy steers sold to £l3/12/6; prime heavy. £9 to £11; prime medium weight. £8 to £9/15/-; ordinary. £5/5 '■ to £7/5/-; extra prime heifers, to £lO 7/6; prime. £5/5/- to £7/10/-; ordinary heifers, £4 to £5; extra prime cows, to £9/12/6; prime, £5 to £6/15/-; ordinary, £3/15/- to £4/15/-. Fat pigs: The yarding of porkers was heavier than usual, and good qualify maintained last week’s rates. There was also a good entry of baconers. which met with a steady sale. Choppers, 30/- to £4/18/6 porkers, 25/- to £2/11/-; average price per lb.. sid. to 6d.; baconers, £2/3/6 to £3/17/-; average price per lb. 5.H. to 51d.

Burnside Sale By Telegraph.—Press Association Dunedin, August 28.

There were heavy yardings in the major sections at the Burnside sale today. The beet’ entry numbered 337, the quality comparing unfavourably with that of the previous market. The large entry had a detrimental effect on prices, and prime heavy cattle depreciated from 15/to 20/-, and medium quality sorts from 10/- to 15/- per head. The store cattle market attracted a small entry, only 86 head being offered. A pen of three-year-old well-bred, good-conditioned steers sold to £6/7/-. The 32 dairy cows forward were of mixed descriptions, and buyers confined their attention to good young cows close to profit. In the mutton section 2317 were offered, including odd trucks of wethers of outstanding quality. 'This class, however, included a large number of light and unfinished sorts, and competition for these was restricted, values depreciating fully 1/- per head. There was a good display of ewes, several pens being of excellent quality, but prices eased slightly. There were 148 fat pigs offered, including several consignments from North

Otago, and comprising some excellent quality baconers which were in good demand. selling to £4/7/-. Prices f° r porkers showed little change. A medium entry of 79 store pigs was quitted at satisfactory prices, large stores selling to 21/-.

Wanganui Values Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, August 28. At the Wanganui sale to-day Freeman R. Jackson and Co. had a good entry of all classes of fats. There was a sharp rise in fat sheep values, and a further firming of prices in the fat cattle section. The fat sheep section included some prime heavyweight ewes, which for the first time this year reached 20/6. a rise of about 2/6 a head. The fat cattle included some nice prime P.A. cows, account Mr. J. Wyley, which made up to £7/13/-. The heifers in the same consignment averaged £7/6/-, while all fat cattle were up fully 10/- per head. A heavy entry of pigs, 330 head, comprised a bigger percentage of porkers and baconers. . The past fortnight has seen butchers’ supplies in t.his section extremely short, and although to-day’s sale was quite a satisfactory one, prices were hardly up to last week’s high values of lOd. per lb. The sale of dairy cattle was very poorly attended. and a dull sale resulted. Sheep: Prime wethers, 23/- to 24/-; extra, to 30/-; prime heavy ewes, 20/6; prime. 18/6 to 20/-; light, 15/4 to 17/6; killable. 12/6 to 15/-; fat hoggets. 20/-; forward ewes, 11/6 to 12/-. Cattle: Fat bullocks, light, £7 to £9 5/-; prime P.A. edws, £6/18/- to £1 13/-; prime P.A. heifers, £6/12/- to £7 6/-; lighter. £6/5/-; prime ex dairy cows £6/10/- to £7/13/-; fat ditto. £4/10/- to £6; light cows. £3/5/- to £4/5/-; paddock cows, ex dairy. £l/10/- to £2/7/6: boner cows. 10/- to 20/-. Dairy cows, forward. ’£2/15/- to £3/10/-; backward. £l/10/- to £2/10/-; dairy heifers, forward. £2/10/- to £3/7/6; backward, unsaleable. Pigs: A heavy entry. Light baconers. £2/4/- to £2/10/-: heavy porkers, 36/- to £2/2/-; porkers. 32/- to 35/-; light porkers. 29/- to £3; forward stores. 23/to 27/6; stores. 16/- to 21/-: rood slips. 17/- to 20/-; slips. 14/- to 16/6; good weaners. 16/- to 18/6; weaners. 12/- to 14/6: Bershire boars. 4J to s}gns.; Tamworth boar. sgus.

Stortford Lodge Sale By Telegraph.- - Press

Hastings, August 28.

Particularly strong selling was experienced in the fat cattle section at t<>-nay’s sale at Stortford Lodge, with values for female beef of good quality rising 10/and more a head, and bullocks selbng at firm to improved values. The entry totalled 250. Dairy sorts also sold well. The store cattle numbered 560 head, principally steers and bullocks, which sold at rates on parity with recent sales. Fat sheep were in short supply, and improved 1/- to 1/6 a head on ewes,, with wethers and hoggets steady to slightly improved. Principally hoggets were on offer in the store sheep section, and sold at~late rates on ewe hoggets, with wether hoggets easier. Fat cattle: Bullocks, medium to prime, £B/15/- to £10; cows, medium to prime, £6 to £7/15/-; others, from £4; heifers, medium to prime, £6/10/- to £B/../-; others, from £5. Store cattle: Bullocks, to £7/6/(>g steers, to £6/5/-; cows, r.w.b., to £3/15/-. Fat sheep: Ewes, medium to prime, 16/6 to 20/-- wethers, to 25/-; hoggets, to 23/2. Store sheep: Ewe hoggets, to 27/9j wether hoggets, to 19/6; wethers, to 23/-.

Westfield Sale By Telegraph I’r-s- Association Auckland. August 2b.

The strong tone of the beef market at last week’s Westfield fat stock sale had the effect of bringing in an increased number of cattle to-day. but the yarding was still below average. The quality of the ox beef was the best for a considerable time, and competition was again brisk, with a further rising tendency in values. Extra choice ox realised fully 30/- per 1001 b. in all but a few cases, with other classes also improved. The offering of cows and heifers, in addition to many of high quality, included a fair proportion of rougher sorts, but here again there was a firming tendency by at least 1/- per 1001 b. Prices for individual lines ruled higher than at any other sale since September last. Extra choice ox beef, 30/- per 1001 b.; choice and 'prime, 26/- to 29/-; secondary and plain, 22/- to 25/-. Prime young cow and heifer beef, 25/- to 29/-; other cow beet, 17/- to 24/-. Extra heavy prime steers made £l3 to £l4/5/-; heavy prime £ll 5/- to £l2/17/6; lighter prime, £lO to £ll/2/6; light prime, £B/15/- to £9 17/6: small and unfinished, £6/10/- to £o 12/6 Extra heavy prime young cows and heifers. £9 to £lO/10/-; heavy prime. £7 7/6 to £B/17/6; lighter prime. £6/5/- to £7/5/-; other killable cows. £3/10/- to £6/7/3. The yarding of calves was a full one. but good runners were again in very short supply. The market was composed mainly of lighter vpalers and smaller calves. A bright demand was the feature of the sale', and fully late rates were maintained, with a decided advance in cases for good heavy vealers. Runners, 45/- to 110/-; vealers, 30/- to 86/A larger number of sheep was penned, the offering including a good proportion of prime heavy sorts. Competition was again good, and values for wethers remained well up to those of last week, though ewes were a shade easier. Lambs in forward condition were in good supply and sold freely at unchanged rates. Only a few spring lambs were offered and. sold to 27/-. Wethers, nrime, 24/- to 33/-; unfinished, 21/- to 23/9. Ewes, prime, 17/- to 23/9; unfinished. 8/- to 16/9. Lambs, prime, 18/- to 23/9; unfinished, 15/- to 17/9. The pig yarding was a good one for the time of the ye'ar. but the demand remained strong, with baconers at unchanged prices. Porkers were again the subject of keen bidding and values improved slightly. Store pigs were in heavy supply and the demand was easier. Prices per lb. for fat pigs: Baconers, sd. to sid.; porkers, 5Jd. to sjd. Baconers made 47/- to 71/-; porkers, 32/- to 46/-; large stores, 20/- to 28/-. Prices at Masterton Dominion Special Service. Mastertoil, August 28. Fat sheep, through being offered in fairly large numbers, suffered a slight easing in prices, especially in the case of ewes, at the weekly Masterton sale today. Store sheep, however, me; with considerable demand, and realised very good values. A few station cattle were also offered, selling very well, but dairy cows and heifers met with poor demand, realising only low values. On the other hand the pigs submitted found a spirited market, the prices realised show : ng a good increase on those realised at late sales, \ The New Zealand Farmers’ 00-opera-

tive Distributing Co., Ltd., submitted a yarding of 725 sheep. -60 head of cattle, and 64 pigs to a very large attendance of buyers, making the following r°alisatious:— Sheep: Fat wethers, 24/9 to 25/9; heavy fat ewes, 18/- to 19/-; goccl fat ewes, 16/6, 17/- to 17/9; light ewes, 13/6 to 14/6; fat hoggets, 19/-, 21/- to 24/3; ewes in lamb to b.f. (late) 18/3 to 21/9; ewes with lambs at foot, 23/-; w.f. tyether hoggets, 19/1, 19/10 to 20/-; b.f. hoggets, 17/-. 18/6 to 19/-; ewe hoggets, 20/- to 24/3. . Cattle: Forward three-year ILA. steers, I £6/19/-; two-year P.A. steers, £5/15/-; I store eows, 25/- to 34/-; potter cows, 15/to 20/-; small weaner Jersey calves, i 21/-; springing heifers, £2/5/-. £2/12/6, to £3; other cows, £2 to £2/10/-. Pigs: Very good wcaners. 23/-, 23/6 to 25/-: good weaners, 17/-, 18/- to 20/-: small weaners. 12/- to 16/-. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., entered a good yarding of stock, effecting a total clearance at the following range of prices:— Sheep: Ewe hoggets, 21/6 to 25/-; v ether hoggets, 19/2 to 20/5; fat wethers, to 24/3; light fat ewes. 14/8; b.f. hoggets, 16/11; m.a. ewes. S.D. ram. 26/6. Cattle: Fat cows, £6 to £7/5/-; fat bullocks £6 10/-; P.A. cows, r.w.b., £2. _ Horses: Five-year draught gelding, £25; eightyear draught gelding, £32. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., offered a good yarding of sheep, together with a small entry of cattle, realising the following prices:—Sheep: Best woolly wether hoggets, 18/9 to 20/2; medium woolly wether hoggets, 15/9 to 17/8; b.f, hoggets, 19/6 to 20/-; woolly ewe hoggets, 22/2; light fat ewe®- 14/-: store wethers, 22/1; cull hoggets, 13/9 to 14/9. Cattle: P.A. yearling steers, £4; yearling dairy heifers, 30/- to £2; potter cows, 28/-. Values at Johnsonville A large yarding of cattle and an average offering of sheep were forward at the Johnsonville stock sale held yesterday by Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams, Ltd. Very few heavy bullocks came forward, the yarding of ox beef being chiefly light weight and unfinished cattle. Competition for good quality cattle was keen, with prices firm on last week’s rates. Second quality bullocks, however, were hard to sell. Prime heavy weight cows and heifers sold well at late rates, unfinished.and light heifers met a dragging sale. Prime heavy wethers met a keen demand owing to the short yarding, prices being 6d. to a 1/per head up on last week, medium weight and plain sorts being on a par. There was a keen demand for all classes of ewes with no alteration in prices. Hoggets met with a good sale, prices being firm at late rates. . Cattle: Prime extra heavy bullocks. £ll/8/-, £ll/5/-, £11; prime heavy bullocks. £lO/15/-, £lO/12/-, £lO/10/-. £lO/6/-, £lO. £9/15/-; heavy bullocks, £9/10/-, £9/5/-, £9; extra prime heavy cows and he’fers, £B/6/-. £B/3/-. £B. £7/16/-, £7/12/-; prime heavy cews and heifers, £7/8/-, £7/6/-, £7/2/6, £6/15/-, £6/9/-; cows and heifers, £4/4/-, £3/15/-, £3/7/-, £3/2/-; runners, £3/15/-, £3/12/-, £3/9/-, £3/5/-, £3/1/-. Sheep: Prime extra heavy wethers 27/6, 27/3, 27/-; prime heavy wethers, 25/11, 25/4; medium wethers,_ 22/6; prime extra heavy ewes, 20/-, 19/5. 19/3. 19/-; prime heavy ewes, 18/3. 17/11, 17/9; medium ewes, 16/9, 16/6. 16/3; heavy hoggets. 24/3, 23/6, 23/4, 23/-; light hoggets, 21/9, 21/3, 21/-, 20/6. Pahiatua Prices Dominion Special Service. Pahiatua, August 28. There was a keen demand for the better class of springing heifers and cows at the weekly Pahiatua sale yesterday, but poorer sorts met a dragging market. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., entered a small yarding of sheep and dairy cattle to a good attendance of buyers, effecting a clearance at the following prices:— Sheep: Fat wethers, 21/-, Cattle: Springing heifers, £2 to £4 15/-; springing cows, 35/-, £3/5/-, £4 to £4/5/-.