LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 11, 8 October 1936, Page 16

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Price Movements At Yesterday’s Sales

Sheep met a linn market at. Addington yesterday. Stores recovered the loss in values at the previous sale. Spring lambs advanced _/-, wethers ’’7- and ewes 2/6. Beef values were easier by 20/- to -a/- a m d best makin- 36/- to 3S/- per 1001 b. At Stortford Lodge fat cattle were’ firm, but. stores were in over-supply and eased. Sheep were firm ami unchanged. Burnside saw an easing in both sheep and cattle values while at Wanganui also fat sheep and cattle eased. I.rime collie Advanced 5/- to 10/- at Johnsonville. Wethers were unchanged, J 1- up luUets V- to 1/6 down aud lambs 1/- to 2/6 down Beef maintained latorates at Westfield, best making 36/- per 1001 b., but sheep showed an easing tendency.

Addington Market

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Christchurch, October 7.

There was a firm market for all classes' of sheep at to-day’s Addington market, but a drop in fat cattle values. Store sheep: A much smaller entry and a larger attendance of buyers. Wether hoggets more than recovered last week’s drop of 1/6. while ewes and lambs showed a further slight firming. Best ewes and lambs sold to 22/6; wether hoggets, to 26/9; ewe hoggets, to 33/9. _ Spring lambs: An entry of 100 sold spiritedly at a 2/- increase in value, recovering last week’s drop. Fat sheep: About 4090 were penned, and with the smaller entry, there was a much unproved sale, wethers being better by 2/-, and ewes by 2/6. Best wethers made 36/- to -10/-; medium, 31/- to 35/-. Best ewes, 30/- to 37/-; medium, 25/- to 29/-. Fat cattle: 509 were penned, mostly of excellent quality, but the over-supply caused an easing of 20/- to 25/- a head for steers, and less for cows and heifers. Best, beef made from 36/- to 3.8/- a 1001 b.; good, 34/- to 35/6; inferior, down to 30/-. A show steer made £2O/2/6; other heavy weights, £l5 to £l7/7/6; good, £l2/10/- to £l4/10/-; best heifers, £ll to £l3/10/-; good, £9 to £lO/10/-; best cows, £9/10/- to £l2; good, £8 to W5/-. Fat pigs: Values were scarcely up to those of last week. Porkers made from 36/6 to 50/6, an average per lb. of 6d. to 6i{d. Baconers, 52/6 to £4/13/6, an average per lb. of ojd. to 6|d. Burnside Sale By Telegraph—Press Association, Dunedin, October 7.

There was a substantial easing iu the value of beef at the Burnside stock sale to-day, and mutton was also cheaper. The yarding of fat cattle was large, 255 head being forward. Prime buUocks realised £l4/17/6 to £l6/17/6; best heifers, £6/12/6 to £lO/2/6; best cows, £6/12/6 to £lO. About 200 head of store cattle were forward, including several pens of well-bred three and four-year-old steers, which brought up to £9/5/-. Good, fresh young cows made to £5. The entry of dairy cows was disposed of at recent values, best sorts realising to £6/7/6. The yarding of fat sheep totalled 2aoo. At the commencement prices showed a drop on last week's values, and eased further as the sale progressed. Extra heavy prime wethers made £l/17/- to £2; prime. £l/14/-to £l/16/6; light, down to £l/8/-1 prime heavy ewes, £l/12/- to £l/15/o; -prime, £l/8/- to £l/11/-; best quality hoggets. £l/6/6 to £l/10/-. Twenty-nine spring lambs were forward, best sorts making £l/8/3 to £l/10/6; medium, £1 3/6 to £l/5/-; light, 18/3 to £l/1/-. The medium entry of 121 fat pigs consisted principally of porkers. Good baconers brought £4/13/-, while porkers sold under keen competition up to io. There was a keen demand for stores, or which there were 142 forward. A consignment of breeding sows was entered, and realised up to £5/15/-. "Westfield Market By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, October 7. Beef cattle sold steadily at up to 36/pcr 1001 b. for the seventh successive week at Westfield to-day. The yarding was slightly heavier, although the quality was only fair, there being many lines of plain cattle. Extra choice ,ox sold to 36/- per 1001 b., choice and prime 30/to 35/-, secondary and plain 26/- to 01 /’ > prime young cow and heifer beef, 2J/- to 35/-; ordinary, 22/- to , 28/-- Extra heavy prime steers ranged from ±l3/10/to £l5/10/-; heavy, fl 2 / I ®/; to lighter, £ll/10/- to £l3/o/-; 10/- to £ll/15/-; small and unfinished, £7/10/- to £9/5/-; extra heavy prime voung cows and heifers, £lO to £l3/o/-; heavy. £8 to £lO/5/-; lighter, fO/W- to £B/15/-; light, £5 to £7/5/-; other killable cows, £2 to £4/15/-. Only a moderate entry of sheep was offered, comprising mostly ewes with a few good-quality wethers. In spite or the steady demand, values were fractionally weaker. Hoggets were scarce but some choice lines appeared. Spring lambs were also less plentiful, previous rqt.es being well maintained in both sections. Heavy prime woolly wethers made 36/to 38/3; medium, 33/- to 37/-; light, 30/- to 35/6; unfinished, 26/- to 30/6, extra heavy prime shorn wethers,,3l/- to 33/6; medium, 26/- to 32/-; light, 24/6 to 30/-; unfinished, 25/- to -7/6; extra heavy prime woolly ewes, 34/6 to 00/-, heavy, 33/- to 34/6 ; medium. 00/- to 32/6; light, 25/- to 30/-; imfimshed. 10/to 24/-; prime shorn ewes, 20/- to -b/6, extra heavv prime hoggets, 00/- to 41/-: heavy, 27/3 to 34/-; medium, 2u/- to 28/9; shorn, 21/9 to 22/9; small and plain, 19/- to 23/-; spring lambs, 10/- to 33/6. Few heavy vealers were available in a smaller consignment of calves, which improved in value under brisk buffing by an average of 2/- a head. Runnei. made £2/10/- to £7/14/-; heavy vealers, £4/10/- to £5/16/-; medium, £o/16/- to £4/10/-; light. £3 to £3/16/-;/mailer, £2/8/- to £3/3/-; unfinished and bucketfed, £l/8/- to £2/8/-; bobby and rough, 6/ Pig° S 3 were in full supply, the demand over the entire sale 1 P r^ UCl "’ h £?/6?. 1 : ues. Choppers, £IAO/- to Wffi 'f I 'i t! -.line 10/- to 30/-; weauers, 11/- to 96/1- young boars, £3/3/- to £5/la/b; Awsi £2/10/- to £6/6/-. Baconers averaged 6d. a lb., and porkers 61(1.

Gisborne Cattle Fair

Dominion Special Service.

Gisborne, October 7.

tt Gisborne, for the second spring cattle fair, the entry totalled 30.0 stores. The "eneral condition was below the previous'’fair, With a larger proportion m dairy types.than usual. Outside buyeis were absent, and local conditions, with the meagre spring rainfall, Jesuitic! m . substantial decline in , , Q ~ . Bullocks, best hues, ±B/-/6 to £A t>/-_. three-year steers, average lines, £< to ±« ||/-; mixed types, £6/10/-; --year blecis. 1 nediuni, £6/9/-; yearling steers good L. 5/- to £5/9/-: medium, £4/li>/- to £o, empty cows, forward, £4/14/- to £4/18/-; si ore condition, £3 to £3/12/-; breeding cows, young, frosh, £6; average sorte, £4 5/- to £5/2/6; grown heifers, good, £a 15/- to £6; two-year heifers, top lines, £5/5/- to £5/19/-; average £3/10/- to £4; yearling heifers, generally £3/2/6 to £3/15/-: cows, running calves, extra. £6 11/-; good, £5/5/- ; medium, £4/12/- to A well-finished entry of 150 cows Prime heavy made £6/16/- to £7 11/-; good, £5/9/- to £6/5/-: bullocks, £B/5/- to £lO/9/-. A largo proportion of the 'store cattle was passed in.

Values at Stortford Lodge

By Telegraph—Press Association,

Hastings, October 7.

Fat cattle met a bright market at Stortford Lodge to-day when values for prime sorts improved on last week. Heavy Bullocks were in demand, making to £l3 13/-; best prime cows, to £9/12/-; medium to heavy, £7 to £8; light finished and inferior also were well traded. Good heifers were again in short supply, best medium heavy making to £9/12/-. A large yarding of store cattle saw an easing in values, many sorts dropping up to £1 a head, while passings were frequent in a dull and dragging sale, steers principally being affected, yearlings in comparison doing much better than two and three-year-old sorts. Best grown bullocks were hard to quit at to £B/12/-. Store sheep were again in good demand being traded at little change .in values. Fat sheep fully maintained last week’s recovered levels, exceptional wethers reaching the record level of 38/-. Best heavy prime ewes made to 36/2; medium to heavy, 28/- to 31/-; prime shorn ewes made to 25/10, the market being bright and keen for all sorts. Wanganui Values Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, October 7. At the Wanganui sale to-day Freeman R. Jackson and Co. had a good yarding of 1000 sheep, 800 cattle, and 112 pigs, with a good sale and a total clearance. Store sheep sold very freely. Both fat cattle and fat sheep were decidedly easier,, more sb fat cattle. Oyer 700 store cattle were yarded, and prices were hardly as high as at some recent sales. Porkers were a short entry and sold at high rates, stores being at last week’s prices. Sheep: Prime maiden ewes, to 34/-; fat ewes, 29/- to 30/3; fat wethers, 29/9 to 33/9; fat hoggets, 24/10 to 27/6; wether hoggets, 26/6 to 27/-; medium, 23/7 to 26/1; good ewes and lambs, £2; aged, 30/-; store ewes, 15/- to 21/-. Prime cows, ex dairy, £6 to £7/5/-; fat, £4/10/- to £5/15/-; three-year steers, good, to £B/17/-; two-year steers, average, £6/14/- to £6/19/-; two-year crossbred, £5/5/- to £6/10/-; yearling P.A. steers, £5/15/- to £6/6/6; Hereford, £5 5/- to £6/2/6; heifers, £4 to £4/12/6; P.A. yearling heifers, £4/10/- Jo £4/18/-; two-year heifers, £4/15/- to £5/2/6; runbred empty cows, £4/15/- to £5/10/-; good paddock cows, £3/15/- to £4/12/6; store Jersey cows, £2/5/- to £3/10/-; crossbred I.C. cows, £4 to £6; good yearling Jersey heifers, £3/15/- to £4/10/-; yearling Jersey heifers, £2/5/- to £3 .12/6; two-year empty jersey heifers, £3 5/- to £4/5/-. Dairy cows met a poor sale, making £3 to £4/15/-. Pigs: Choppers, £l/15/- to £2/2/-; heavy porkers, to £2/12/-j porkers, 32/5 to £1; light porkers, 26/- to 31/-; stores, 20/- to 23/6; good slips, 18/6 to 21/-; weaners, 16/- to IS/-; small, 9/- to 12/6; sow and litter, £5/15/-; sows to farrow, £2/5/- to £3/10/-. Masterton Sale Masterton, October 7. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., offered a good yarding of stock at the weekly Masterton sale to-day. making the following realisations: —Sheep : W.W. hoggets, 23/9 to 25/-; shorn fat ewes, 24/- to 25/6; woolly fat ewes, 26/3 to 28/6; forward ewes, 15/- to 17/9. Cattle: Jersey heifers on drop, £3/5/- to £4/10/-. Pigs: Weaners, 14/- to 18/-; slips, 18/to 23/9. The New Zealand Farmers Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd., entered, a large yarding of sheep and cattle, making the following proces:—Sheep: Fat Southdowns, 23/3; fat shorn ewes, 18/-; fat shorn wethers, 25/7; fat ewes, 26/-; b.f. hoggets, 19/6; w.f. wether hoggets, 22/to 26/-; store ewes, 15/- to 16/3; aged Romney ram, 12/-; aged Southdown ram, 17/6. Cattle: Good quality springing Jersey heifers, £5/10/-, £6/10/- to £7/10/-; fat heifer, ex dairy, £3/10/-. Dalgety and Company offered a small yarding of sheep, realising the following rates: F. and f. ewes, 17/3; fat. Southdown ewes, woolly, 25/8; fat Southdown 2-tooths, 25/-; w.b.f. hoggets, 24 '.. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., also submitted a small entry of sheep, effecting a clearance at the following values: Ewe hoggets, 31/-; ewes and lambs (all counted), 15/7; light fat ewes, 26/1. Johnsonville Sale An average yarding of cattle a.mi a large sheep offering were forward at the Johnsonville sale held yesterday by Wright, Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., and Abraham aud illianis. Ltd.- Prime heavv cattle mot a ready sale at prices up 5/- on last week’s rates, medium cattle were unchanged, while light ami unfinished sorts were slightly easier. Several pens of exceptionally prime heavyweight cows and heifers met with spirited coinpetition. Medium and plain cows were down 10/- to 15/- per head. No cows ex dairy were yarded. The' yarding of runners and vealers was of 'indifferent quality and met with little demand. The wethers comprised chiefly heavyweight sheep with a few pens of medium and unfinished sorts. Prime heavy wethers and mediumweight sheep showed no alteration. The yarding of ewes was of exceptionally good quality, comprising extra heavyweight sheep with a few pens of light and unfinished sorts. All classes met with a ready sale, prices for heavyweight sheep being 1/- firmer, and for light aud unfinisred sheep, no alteration. The hoggets yarded were of poor quality, and prices were 1/- to 1/6 per head easier. There was the usual yarding of good quality spring lambs, but owing to the drop in wholesale prices there was not the keen demand for lambs that there was the previous week, prices being in some cases; easier to the extent of 2/- to 2/6 per head for heavyweights and 1 /- to 1 ''6 for light lambs. Cattle: Prime extra heavy bullocks. £l5/2/- down to £l3/10/- (single) : prime heavy bullocks, £l3 down to £l2 12/6; heavv bullocks, £l2/10/- down to £l2; light and unfinished bullocks. £ll 5/- down to £lO/7/6; extra prime heavy cows aud heifers. £lO/12/6 down to £9 18/-; prime heavy cows and heifers. £9 15/- down to £9/2/6; cows and heifers. £B/10/- down to £7/5/-; runners, £4 5/- down to £3/16/-; vealers, £2/12/6 down to £2/5/-. Sheep: Prime extra heavy wethers, 40/- down to 38/6; prime heavy wethers, 38/3 down to 37/6; medium wethers, 37/- down to 36/3; nrime extra heavy ewes. 36/9 down to 35/6; prime heavy ewes. 35/- down to 34/2; ewes. 32zdown to 28/-; heavy hoggets. 32/6 down to 30/-; light hoggets, 27/6 down to 25/-; heavy spring lambs. 30/- down to 2“/-; medium spring Jambs. 2l> 6 down to • > s'2- light spring lambs, 24/6 down ■ to 22.