LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 200, 21 May 1936, Page 14

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Price Movements At Yesterday’s Sales

Sheep entries at Addington yesterday were smaller, with store ewes up 1/- a head. Fat. lambs were easier, but fat sheep advanced 1/- A heavier entry of fat; cattle saw values fall 20/- a head, best beef making to 27/- per 1001 b. Values generally ruled very firm at Westfield At Stortford Lodge fat cattle were down 15/- to 20/-, stores also easing. Store sheep receded 1/6, ami fats were down by 1/6 to ■>/- Values were unchanged at Wanganui. Sheep were firm. with cattle dull of sale at Johnsonville. Prime cattle were firm at Burnside, .oilier sorts easing by 10/- a head. Prime wethers were firm, but other sheep values eased 1/- to 2/6.

Addington Market By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, .May 20. Entries were smaller in the sheep section and larger in the fat cattle section at the Addington market to-day. there was a good market for sheep and a weaker one for cattle. ~ ~ Store sheep: All classes sold well. Ewes were better by up to 1/- a head, also forward wethers and ewe lambs. Ewe lambs made to 32/3, and forward wethers ranged fro”i 22/- to 23/9. . Fat lambs were slightly easier, the market export competition not being so widespread. Fat sheep met au improved sale by up to 1/- a head, the entry being IKK) less (han last week. Best wethers sold from 27/- to 34/-; good, from .-•>/- to 26/6; best ewes, from 22/- to -</-: prime medium weight .from 18/- to 23/-; export, from 14/- to 17/-. __ Fat cattle: A heavy entry of u.iO beau and a weakening in values by up to 20/-. Best steers made from £lO to £l3/i/b; good, from £8 to £9/10/-; inferior, £4 5/- to £6/10/-: best heifers, £7 to £9; medium, £4/10/- to £5/10/-: best cows, £6/10/- to £9/10/-; medium, £4 to £o. Best beef made 25/- to 2</- a 1001 b.; medium. 22/- to 24/-. . Fat pigs: Baeoners were firmer anil porkers cheaper. There was no export buying. Baeoners. 47/6 to £4; average price‘per lb.. sd. to s,{d. ; porkers, 2S/fo 41/6, average price per lb., old. to ui'.. Choppers made 30/- to £3/18/6. Burnside Sale Dy Telegraph. —Press Association. Dunedin. May 20. The entry of 26S fat cattle at. the Burnside stock sale to-day was smaller than usual. Prime heavy bullocks were not forward in numbers, the bulk of the yarding consisting of medium quality bullocks, together with a large percentage of cows and heifers. Butchers wore still holding supplies from last week, and throughout the sale medium quality bullocks. cows and lieifer.s sold at a reduction of 10/- per head. On account of the short supply, prime heavy bullocks sold at late parity throughout. There were 310 store cattle forward, the entry including n larjje proportion of vealers, which did not realise Inst, week’s prices There were very few steers, the best of these, a pen of' three-year-old beasts of good quality, making to £5/18/-. The entry in (lie dairy cow section was average, only voting cows close to profit being required. X small entry of 707 fat lambs was forward, including a few consignments of light and unfinished sorts, the entry ou the whole being unattractive, and prices generally were about on a par will) those ruling lit the previous market. There were 1497 fat sheep penned, consisting for the most part of medium quality ewes. There Wits a dearth of heavy wethers nnd a smaller percentage than usual of prime heavy ewes. Heavy wethers sold at late parity, while medium quality wethers and heavy ewes showed a drop of 1/- per head and medium quality descriptions eased fully 2/6. Of the 120 fill pigs yarded a large proportion consisted of porkers. There was a brisk sale for both porkers and btieoners, the latter selling to £4/10/-. and the former at late rates. There was a larger entry than usual of slorc pigs, and p slight casing resulted. Stortford Lodge Values By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, JI ay 20. All stock values at the Stortford Lodge sale to-day were easier. The fat cattle entry comprised a moderate entry of prime ox .beef, and an over-supply of cows, which included many plain and aged sorts, and values eased 15/- to 20/- per head. Prime quality heavy ox beef made to £ll/10/;: lighter. £9 to £10; prime heavy cows, £6 5/- to £6/15/-; medium prime, £5 to £6; other killing sorts. £4. Store cattle were in short supply, with values showing a further drop of 10/- to 15/- on last week's reduced levels. Grown eat tie made £j 10/-; extra good 18 months steers, £5 15/-: weaners, to £4/6/-. . Heifers found little inquiry, 30-months lines selling to £l/12/6. ‘ u , Store sheep: Wethers were 1/6 a head easier, extra good killable selling to 26/’6: good breeding ewes, r.w. Down rams, to 25/-: good shorn wether lambs, 19/8. Fat sheep: Wethers and ewes were 1/6 to "/- easier, butchers showing little activity. Wethers, extra heavy prime quality, to 26/6: prime ewes, extra good to 23/-; lighter prime, 20/6 to 21/G; medium, 17/9 to 19/-; freezing operators secured most of the lambs nt slightly reduced levels. Westfield Sale By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland. May 20. The feature of the Westfield fat stock market to-day was the demand for baeoners. Bidding was extremely brisk throughout the sale in this section, and quotations showed a sharp rise on late rates. Ox beef was again iu comparatively short supply, and values remained firm ou last week's sales. Cows and heifers were yarded in good numbers, and bidding was spirited, recent values being maintained. Extra choice ox sold Io 27/per 1001 b.: choice and prime. 23/- Io 26/-; secondary and plain, 18/- to 22/-; prime young cow and heifer beef. 23/- to 26/-; other cow beef. 18/- to 22/-. Extra heavy prime steers made £lO to £ll ; heavy prime steers, £9/5/- to £9/15/-: lighter prime. £B/10/- to £9; light prime, £7/10/- to £B/5/-: small and unfinished. £4/10/- to £6/5/-; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers. £7 to £B/15/-; heavy prime. £5 to £6/5/-; lighter prime, £4 to £4/10/-; other killnble cows, £2 15/- to £3/5/-. Calves came forward in full numbers and in this section there was a bright sale. Values generally were firm, but small vealers showed a further improvement. Runners, £2/8/- to £5/14/-; heavy prime vealers, £3/9/- to £3/16/-; medium. £2/16/- to £3/3/-: light, £2/6/- to £2/13/-; unfinished and bucket-fed. 16/t<> 29/-. Bobbv nnd rough calves. 4/- to 1 I/-. There was an average yarding of sheep, comprising many pens of well-finished wethers. Competition was keen with values firm nt Into quotations. Extra heavy prime wethers. 31/9 to 32/6: heavy prime. 30/6 to 31/6; medium prime, 29/to 30/-; light prime. 26/- to 28/6; small and unfinished, 23/- to 25/9; prime maiden ewes. 23/6 to 30/6; heavy prime. 22/- to 23/-; medium prime, 20/- to 21 z 6; light nrime. 10/- to 20/6; just killable, 15/- to 18/-; poor ewes, 7/6 to 12/6. Lambs, which were penned in average numbers, sold readily. Heavy prime lambs realised 25/- to 26/-; medium prime. 23/- to 24/6; light prune. 20/- to 22/-; small and unfinished. 17/lo 19/-.

While (here was a particularly keen demand for good baconers. good quality porkers nlso sold readily at a slight in-

crease on late rates; values were much easier, however, for, plain and unfinished porkers. Choppers, 30/- to 67/- heavy and medium baeoners, 63/- to 75/-: light baeoners and heavy porkers, 50/- to 60/-; medium porkers, 32/- to 48/-; small and unfinished, 18/- to 25/-. The demand for store pigs showed an improvement, and values were firmer. Large stores, 20/to 23/-: slips, HZ- *o IT /’l weaners, 5/- to 12/-. Wanganui Sale Dominion Special Service. Wanganui. May 20. At the Wanganui sale to-day Freeman R. Jackson and Co. offered a good yarding. Although there were no alterations in values the sheep sale was not as free as that of last week. Fat cattle were on a par with last week, values being unchanged. In the pig section a good entry of breeding sows sold freely, averaging £3/2/6, stores and porkers being at late rates. Sheep: Fat wethers. 26/6; prime ewes. 21/- Io 22/3; fat. 18/- to 19/-; light. 16/- to 17/-; fat lambs. 21/- to 22/-; 4 and 5-year owes, mated Down rams, 24/8 to 25/-: wether hoggets. Io 18/2; medium ewes, hoggets, 20/3 to 20/11 ; culls. 14/4 to 19/u; cull lambs. 12/6 to 13/-; cull owes, aged. 5/4 to 7/7; m.a. wethers. 21/3 to 22/4. Cattle: Prime heavy cows, £6 to £6 17/6: good fat cows, £4/10/- to £5; lighter. £2/17/6 Io £4 ; sound Holstein cows. £3/15/- to £5/3/-; unsound, £2/17/- to £3/9/-; good slorc cows, £2 to £2/10/-; boners. 25/- to 35/-; heavy bulls £4/o/to £4/10/-; light. £2/2/6 to £2/12/6; Sood dairy cows, early cal vers, £6 to £4 : later. £4 to £5. Pigs: Light baeoners, to £2/4/-; good porkers. 30/- to 34/-: porkers 26/- 1° 29/-; light porkers. 21/- Io 25/-; good stores, 11/- to 15/-; slips, good. 8/- to 10/-; .average. 6/- to 7/6; sows to farrow. £3 to £3/10/-; aged and late, £1 Io £2:. Vealers: Good vealers, £2/15/to £3/3/-; average. £2/7/6 to £2/12/6: calves. £l/8/- to £l/15/-;: average over yarding. £2/10/-. Masterton Sale .Masferton. May 20. Al Illi' Mnslcrton sale to-day Wright. Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., had a big entry of 1085 sheep. Bidding uus not so keen as last week, and inferior sheep, of which there were several pens, mot with poor competition, better-class sheep, however, making good values. Fats were almost the same, and cattle made last week’s ra 1 os. Sheep: Fat wethers. 28/- to 29/-; forward 2-tooth wethers. 25/- to 26/6; forward ewes, 17/1 to 19/-; shorn wether lambs. 19/- to 20/1 ; b.f. lambs, 17/- to IS/-: woolly wether lambs, to 18/5; 2tooth ewes. r.w. S.D.. to 25/-, Cattle: Empty cows. £2/1/- to £4 19-'-; Jersey heifer calves, to £2/12/-. Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., had a yarding comprised chiefly of ewes, which sold.

readily at prices well up to those of last week.'Sheep: Aec. Manawa Station, 69 4 and 6-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D., 29/4 ; 34 2-tooth ewes, r.w. S.D., 28/4; 82 4 and 5-year ewes, r.w. S.D.. 25/-; ace. A. W. Campbell. 130 b.f. lambs, 17/6. Horses: 1 rising 4-ycar station hack, £B. Values at Johnsonville An average yarding of cattle and a large sheep entry were forward at the Johnsonville stock sale held yesterday by Wright. Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham anil Williams, Lid. All classes of cattle met with a dragging .sale, with prices easier than those riding Inst week. Sheep: 'Wethers met witli a good sa'e with no alteration in prices. Ewes, a keen sale for prime heavy sheep resulted, while plain sorts were not wanted. Lambs, the quality was not up Io tin* usual standard, only prime lambs being in demand. Cattle: Prime extra heavy bullocks, £l3/5/- (single pen): prime heavy bullocks, £l2/11/-. £l2/6/-. £l2/2/-: heavy bullocks. £lO/10/-, £lO/7/-, £lO/6/-, £10; extra prime heavy cows and heifers. £7/2/-. £6/IS/-. £6/15/-; prune heavy cows and heifers. £6/10/-. £6/5/-, £6; cows and heifers. £5/10/-, £5/3/-. £•>. £4/12/- £4/7/-. £4/2/-, £4: vealers. £3 12/6 £3/8/6. £3/5/- £2/9/-. £2/5/-. £2/2/-. £2. £V9/-. £l/4/-. Sheep: Prime extra heavy wethers, 28/9; prime heavy wethers. 27/3; medium wethers. 26/-. 25/9. 25/7: prime extra heavy ewes. 24/-. 23/10: prime heavy ewes, 23/-. 22/9. 22/7: medium ewes. 21/2. 21/-. 20/11. 20/9; heavy spring lambs. 25/- (sninll pen). 24/6: medium spring lambs. 22'9, 22'6; light spring, lambs. 18/11. 18/9, 18/6.