LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 41, 12 November 1936, Page 17

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Price Movements At Yesterday s Sales

Values generally showed little change at yesterday’s live stock sales. At Westfield beef was firm and unchanged, with sheep showing a slight improvement and pigs easier. Cattle and sheep were firm at Stortford Lodge, but lambs were in over-supply and values eased. In a short entry at Wanganui sheep prices improved with cattle firm. Cattie made a slight advance at Burnside, with sheep slightly easier. Prime cattle and sheep were unchanged at Johnsonville, with plain sorts slightly down in value, while lambs eased in sympathy with the lower export schedule.

Bumside Sale By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, November 11. The market for fat cattle at the Burnside sale to-day was about on a par with last week until toward the end, when prices, especially for better quality sorts, improved. Prime heavy ox brought to £l7/7/6; prime, £l2/17/6 to £l3/17/6; medium, £lO/12/6 to £l2/7/6; light, down to £9/17/6; prime heavy cows and heifers, to £lO/12/6; prime, £7/7/6 to £9/7/6; medium, £6/2/6 to £7/2/6: light, down to £5/12/6. There were 105 store cattle yarded and a pen of well-bred fouryear steers realised £B/1/- under keen competition. The entry of dairy cows numbered 31. and the few good young eows forward met a good inquiry. Outside competition kept, the market for fat sheep firm until the final races, when there was a noticeable easing. Prime heavy wethers in wool brought to £2; shorn, to £l/10/6; prime, in wool, £l/15/6 to £l/17/9; shorn, £l/5/6 to £l/7/6; medium, in wool, £l/11/- to £1 15/3; shorn, £l/2/9 to £l/5/-; light and unfinished, in wo.pl, down to £l/7/3; shorn, down.to 19/-; prime heavy ewes, in wool, to £l/16/-; shorn, to £l/7/-; prime, in wool, £l/11/9 to £l/14/-; shorn, £l/3/6 to £l/5/9; medium, in wool, £l/5/9 to £l/9/3; shorn. £l/2/to £l/3/3; light, in wool, £1 to £l/3/9; shorn, 17/9 to £l/1/6. The 130 fat lambs forward met a firm market until the latter stages, when there was an easing up to 2/- a head. Prime heavy lambe made to £l/11/6; prime, £l/3/6 to £l/8/-; light, down to £l/1/-. Flit pigs numbered 160. Baconers brought from £3/8/- to £4/4/-; porkers, from £2/8 to £3/5/-. Stores, of which there were 240 offered, realised from £1 1/- to £2, according to size and quality.

Westfield Market By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, November 11. Firm beef values were maintained at Westfield to-day. The market was well supplied with many choice lines, and bidding was especially keen. Extra choice ox sold to 36/- per 1001 b. for the 12th successive week; choice and prime, 32/- to 35/-; secondary and plain, 28/- to 32/-; prime cow and heifer beef, 30/- to 35/-; ordinary, 21/- to 29/-. Extra heavy prime steers made £l4 to £l6; .heavy, £l2/10/to £l4/17/6; medium, £ll/12/6 to £l3 17/6; light, £lO to £l2; unfinished, £5 to £lO/10/-; extra heavy cows and heifers, £9/10/- to £ll/2/6; heavy, £7/10/- to £9 10/-; medium, £6/10/- to £7/15/-; light, £4/10/- to £6/15/-; unfinished, £2 to £4 10/-. Practically no woolly sheep were offered in a wide selection, which attracted slightly better bidding than last week. The quality generally was fair. Extra heavy shorn wethers, 29/- to 30/6; heavy, 27/- to 29/3; medium, 25/6 to 27/9; light, 23/6 to 26/-; unfinished, 20/- to 22/6; extra heavy ewes, 25/- to 27/3; heavy, 23/- to 25/9; medium, 20/- to 23/9; light, 17/6 to 22/3; other ewes, 10/- to 20/-; prime woolly hoggets, 28/to 34/-; shorn, 24/- to 28/-; unfinished, shorn, 21/- to 23/6; spring lambs, 15/- to 32/-. A full yarding of calves included many plain sorts. All classes sold readily, but values eased toward the close of the sale. Runners. £2/10/- to £6/18/-; heavy vealers, £5/2/- to £5/15/-; medium, £4 to £4/10/-; 'light, £2/3/3 to £3/14/-; smaller, £2/5/- to £2/15/-; unfinished and bucket-fed, £l/9/- to £2/5/-; bobby and rough, 7/- to 35/-. Baconers eased up to 4/- a head, and porkers to 1/-, averages being quoted at sid. and 6Jd. a lb. respectively.. The full entry included much of splendid quality. Choppers, £l/10/- to £.3/2/-; , heavy baconers, £3/6/- to £3/14/-; medium, £3 1/- to £3/8/-; light, £2/16/- to £3/1/-; heavy .porkers, £2/9/- to £2/6/-: medium, £2/4/- to £2/9/-; light, £l/15/- to £2 1/-; unfinished, £l/4/- to £l/14/-; stores, £l/4/- to £l/15/-; slips, 18/- to 25/-; weaners, 8/- to 21/-. Stortford Lodge Values By Telegraph —Press Association. Hastings, November 11. Last week’s advanced rates tor both fat cattle and sheep were maintained at Stortford Lodge to-day. Prime medium weight ox beef was sought after, but second quality lines met. a quieter sale. Outstanding in the female section was the Haupori draft of prime heifers and eows, which made to £lO/17/6, and averaged well over £9. Inferior cows sold surprisingly well. An exceptionally short yarding of store cattle contained very few station-bred lines, the best offering being forward Aberdeen Angus yearlings which made the splendid value of. £7/1/-. Good two-year-old steers realised iS .Shorn two-tooth wethers predominated in the store sheep section, host lines making 23/-; aged woolly owes with lambs made to 16/4 all counted. Both prime ewes and wethers maintained last week's rates, but spring lambs were in over-supply, and were hard to quit. 'Best sorts made 26/-, buyers showing no inclination to exceed the freezing schedule. Masterton Sale Masterton, November, 11. There was a very strong inquiry at the weekly Masterton sale to-day, and prices were firmer than last week. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., offered a small yarding of stock to a good attendance of buyers, effecting a clearance at the following prices:— Sheep: Shorn two-tooth wethers, 23/to 23/6; shorn b.f. hoggets, 22/8 to 23/5; w.w. hoggets, 26/8. Cattle: Forward cows, £4/5/-; store cows, £2/10/- to £3/1/-. Pigs: Weaners, 14/- to 19/6; slips, 20/6 to 22/6. The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Co., Ltd.,’s yarding included a line of four-tooth wethers from “Mamaku” Station, these realising the satisfactory price of 23/4. Other prices were: — Sheep: Fat wethers, 24/1; woolly fat ewes. 26/3; Southdown fat ewes, 23/6; ewe hoggets, 36/6; b.f. small wether hoggets, 21/6; w.f. wether hoggets, 20/-; small two-tooth and four-tooth wethers, 22/4; two-tooth wethers, 24/6. Pigs: Weaners, 17/6 to 19/-; porkers, 30/-. Norsewood Sale Late rates were maintained at the Norsewood sale on Monday. Williams and Kettle, Ltd., mnde the following sales: —Fat ewes, 30/2; shorn fat ewes, 22/-; ewe hoggets, 26/-; wether hoggets, 26/-; good second calvers, £6/12/6; sound Jersey bulls, £6/5/-; store cows, £l/9/to £3/2/-; 1 Tamworth sow, in pig, £3; light porkers, £l/5/6; weaner pigs, 16/to 19/-. The Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Association, Ltd., report sales as under: —Shorn fat ewes, £l/1/-, £l/2/6; wether hoggets, £l/4/- to £l/7/6; fat Jersey cows. £3/10/-, £4/15/-: store cows, £l/12/6 to £2/15/-; yearling Jersey heifers, £2/10/- to £3; weaner pigs, .15/6, 17/6, 18/6 to £l,

Values at Johnsonville Good yardings of both cattle and sheep were forward at the Johnsonville stock sale held yesterday by Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and Abraham and Williams. Ltd. The offering of cattle was mostly of extra prime heavyweight class with a few pens of lighter weights. The bidding was brisk, prices for. ox beef showing little alteration, while light cows and he'iferg were 5/- to 10/- easier. No runners and vealers were yarded. The yarding of wethers consisted chiefly of medium-weight sheep with a few pens °f prime heavyweight sorts. All classes met with a keen sale, prices for heavier classes being on a par with those ruling hist week, prime medium-weights 6d. to 1/per head easier. The yarding of ewes was of good quality and comprised chiefly prime medium shorn sheep with a few pens of extra-heavy shorn and woolly sheep. Prime heavy sheep were firm, on last week’s rates while light and medium weights and unfinished ewes were 1/easier. A good sale resulted for all classes of lambs. Owing to the drop in export prices of Id. per lb. on last week, prices realised to-day eased in sympathy.

Cattle: Prime extra-heavy bullocks. £l4/15/-. £l4/7/6, £l4/3/-, £l4 to £l3 13/6; prime heavy bullocks. £l3/5/-, £l3 2/-, £l2/19/-, £l2/18/-, £l2/15/6 to £l2 8/6; heavy bullocks, £l2/2/6, £l2. £ll 19/-; prime medium bullocks, £ll/11/-. £ll/8/-, £11; extra prime heavy cows and heifers, £B/16/-, £B/14/-, £B/12/to £B/2/-; prime heavy cows and heifers, £7/13/-, £7/12/6, £7/11/- to £7/4/-; cows and hdifers, £6/17/- to £6/1/-. Sheep: Prime extra-heavy wethers (shorn), 29/3, 28/10 to 28/7; prime heavy wethers (shorn), 28/2. 28/-, 27/6; medium wethers (shorn), 25/11; prime extra-heavy ewes (woolly), 35/-, (shorn), 26/6, 25/6. 25/-, 24/9; prime heavy ewes (shorn), 23/10, 23/6, 22/9. 22/6, 22/-; medium ewes (shorn) 21/-, 20/1 to 19/-; heavy hoggets, 25/6; light hoggets, 21/6; heavy spring lambs, 24/9, 2-1/3. 24/2; medium spring lambs, 22/-, 21/10; light spring lambs, 20/-. Values at Wanganui Wanganui, November 11. Yesterday’s sale, being show week, Freeman R. Jackson and Co. bad a short entry in all sections, comprising mainly fate. A feat ure of the sale was the sharp rise in fat. shorn ewes and hoggets. Fat cattle sold well, and maintained last week’s values. Sheep: Good fat shorn ewes, 25/- to 26/7; mid fat shorn ewes. 22/6; fat shorn b.f. hoggets, 28/-; fat shorn b.f. hoggets, 24/6; spring lambs, 23/- to 27/6. Cattle: Fat P.A. cows, £6/15/- to £7 17/6; fat med. cows, £6 to £6/10/-; fat coloured cows, £l/12/- to £5/12/-; coloured yearling and two-year steers, £5 2/6; boner cows, to £3/6/-; yearling heifers, to £2/12/-. Pigs: Heavy tiorkers, 37/- to £2/8/-; medium porkens, 27/- to 35/-: store pigs, 18/- to 26/-; weaner pigs, 14/- to 18/6. Levin Sale At the Levin sale on Tuesday, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., offered a large yarding of pigs and cattle. A good clearance was made at the following prices:—• Pigs: 'Small stores, 16/- to 21/6: light porkers, 26/6 to 31/-; heavy do., 39/- to £2/7/-; baconers, £3 to £3/'l2/-. Cattle: Fat cows, ex dairy (best), £6/5/- to £7 17/6; do. (good), £5/5/- to £6/5/-: do. (light and 'unfinished), £4 to £4/15/-; small vealers. 33/- to £2/1/-; medium springing heifers, £4/10/- to £5/10/-; store cows, £2/6/- to £2/12/-. HIGH-CLASS RED POLL Tasmanian Stud Sire Arriving To-morrow INTEREST IN FRESH BLOOD Proof that leading cattle breeders throughout the Domiuion have, for some time past, realised the necessity of importing fresh blood iu order that they may maintain the high standards of their herds, is shown by the numbers of highclass pedigree sires and herd matrons which have arrived in the Dominion during the past few months, despite the high costs of importing cattle from overseas countries. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, M.L.C., the well-known sheep and cattle breeder, has now secured from Tasmania an outstanding stud Red Poll bull for his “Otahuua” stud. Purchased from the “Ivanhoe” stud through the Stud Stock Department of the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., the bull will arrive in Wellington by the Marama to-morrow. A particularly good type of animal, with a very nice head, clean nose, wide flat loin, good width between the pin bones, and of the correct colour, Ivanhoe Ladas was calved at the end of August. 1935. His sire. Woodburn Wiseboy (1515), and his dam, Northwood Bourne Lass (3466), are both double A rating, and trace back to some of the very best AA cattle bred in Victoria and New South Wales. On his breeding alone, without his good appearance, Ivanhoe Ladas will doubtless appeal to many Red Poll breeders. OPENING UP LAND A Further 38,022 Acres For Selection This mouth a further 38,022 acres of land to be opened up by the Government, the areas being described as suitable for dairying, grazing and mixed fanning. Of this total acreage one selection in the Marlborough province situated in the Molesworth and Leatham survey districts accounts for 35,224 acres. There are only two other blocks in the South Island, one being of 143 acres 12 perches in the Southland province, and the other is of 6 acres 3 roods 8 perches in the Elderslie Settlement, Otago.

The North Tslaud selections available are all located in the northern part of the island. One comprising 4 acres 3 roods 34 perches of grazing country is at Waari Hamlet, North Auckland. Four are in the Auckland province. Two of these are situated in the Maungatautari survey district and are suitable for mixed farming, their respective areas being 345 acre.* and 198 acres 2 roods 9 perches. The other two consist of grazing land, one of 539 acres being located iu the Kawhia North survey district, and the other of 317 acres 1 rood 20 perches iu the Maung.-imangero survey district. The only remaining North Island section is one of 1213 acres of grazing country in the Tuaha survey district, Gisborne,