LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 147, 18 March 1937, Page 16

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Price Movements At Yesterday s Sales

A heavy yarding of cattle, including some of the finest ipiality brought to market for many months, sold at last weeks rates at yesterday’s stock sale at Westfield. Calves were numerous, ami although the quality was not up to the usual standard prime sorts made up to 3/- a bead better than recent values. A short yarding of sheep sold firm on last week’s improved nites, and pigs vieie traded at late values. In a firm market at Addington store sheep sold at a slight increase on recent rates, and most. fat. sorts were in good demand. Cattle sold at the best of last week's rates. At Burnside there was a slight improvement in the market for best sorts of fat. cattle, and stores met with good competition. There was a general hardening of prices for sheep. Both sheep and cattle met with a slow market at Slortford Lodge stock sale. Apart from well-done lambs, rates for sheep showed a further slight decline, while, with quality lacking, passings were frequent in the cattle section.

Addington Market Firm

Bv 'Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, March 17. There were full entries at Addington stock market to-day and a good sale of all classes resulted. A heavy entry of store sheep sold at a slight increase on the firm rates ruling at recent, fairs. Good two-tooths sold nt up to 46/'-. and four-year to 30/-. Failingmouthed ewes were also in keen demand. Fat lambs sold freely at: slightly more than schedule rates for butchers sorts, exporters taking the remainder. Prime fat wethers were in good demand, as were export ewes, but medium wethers were a shade easier. Best wethers made from 29/- to 35/-, and best ewes from 22/- to 25/-. A heavy entrj’ of 500 head of fat cattle sold at the best of last week's rates, the holiday demand stimulating competition. Best steers brought £l2 to IJS/10/-: prime -edium. £lO/10/- to £ll/15/-; best heifers, to £11; good sorts. £B/10/- to £10; good cows. £8 to £lO/10/-. In the fat pig section porkers were easier by 2/- to 3/- a head, but baconers showed no change. Porkers sold at 33/6 to 47/6, the average price per lb. being 5Jd. to 6d; baconers, 44/6 £u/t/6, average price per lb. s}d. to 5Jd. Good Sale at Burnside By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, March 17. There was slight improvement in rhe market for fat cattle as far as choicest sorts were concerned at the Burnside stock sale to-day. The yarding numbered 340 head, mainly composed of medium descriptions. Prime heavy bullocks made to £l5/12''-. prime £ll/10/- to £l2/10/-, medium £9 to £lO/10/-, and light down to £6/10/-. Extra prime cows and heifers brought, to £lO/12/6. prime £7/10/- to £B/17/6. medium £5/10/- to £6/10/-, and light down to £3/10/-. The yarding of stores totalled 200 head, including a consignment of station cattle which met with good competition and realised £6/2/- to £B/19/- for three and four-year-olds. In the fat sheep pens there were IboO forward, and there was a general firming of prices. Prime heavy wethers realised to £l/13/-; prime, £l/8/6 to £l/11/-; medium. £l/5/- to £l/7/6; and Tightdown to £l/1/-. Prime ewes brought £1 2/6 to £l/6/-; medium, 19/- to £l/1/-. and light down to 15/-. Approximately 650 fat lambs were entered, and prices were firm at late rates. Prime heavy lambs brought £l/12/-; prime, £l'6/- to £l/7/6; medium. £l/1/6 to £l/3/-. and light down to 15/-. The 127 fat pigs forward sold at recent. values. Baconers were worth from £2/5/- to £3, and porkers from £3 to £4/3/-.

Dull Market at Stortford Lodge

Dominion Special Service. Hastings, March 17. A yarding of 13,000 store sheep at Stortford Lodge to-day met with slow bidding and a dull market. Rates for forward wether Jambs were about on a par with recent quotations, but poorer qualities were very dull. Apart from well-done lambs, rates, generally, showed a further slight decline. Small-grown woolly lines were slow at 15/-, while breeding ewes were not in demand, one of the best lines making 23/6. Fattening ewes ranged from 12/- down to as low as 7/6 for poorly-con-ditioned lots. Rates were as follows; —Moolly whitefaced lambs, well grown, early shorn. 19/6, 19/1: smaller grown, 16/6, passed at'l4/- and 13/9; woolly ewe lambs in good order, passed at 25/3; small-grown black-faced lambs, 17/-; two-tooth ew?s, early shorn, good order, 32/6; five-year ewes in good order, early lambing proposition. passed at 23/6; medium framwi. 21 /6 and 20/9 ; well-grown wethers, 25/3 : store ewes, fattening proposition, in light order, 12/6. 12/-, 11/-. Two hundred head of fat cattle were yarded at Stortford Ixidge to-day. but quality was lacking and bidding slow on all except prime ox beef. The sale, opened with frequent passings for plain lots, making freezing schedule rates, which vendors were not prepared to accept. Prime ox beef made values on a par with or in advance of late rates, extra heavy entries being large boned and plain finished. Prime quality was confined to a few tnediumweight and very young entries, which made up to 32/6 per 1001 b. A few; pens of very prime heifers made up to £9. .>/- or os/_ per 1001 b." Top lines of heav.v cows "made £S/10/-. and good mediumweights up to £7/10/-. but light, unfinished sorts were difficult to trade at £6/o/-, some not even receiving bids. The heavy varding of a fortnight ago enabled butchers to stock up, and they were apparently reluctant to enter the market to-day for lines that were not well done.

Wanganui Prices Firm Dominion Special Service. Wanganui. March 17. Freeman R. .lackson and Co. report that thev offered a fair yarding of s-heep and a heavy entry of pigw nt Wiinganni. Onlv fat cattle wore yarded, no stores coining forward. There was a good attendance of buyers. Prices generally were linn on Inst week. The ewes yarded were of the aged ein varietv and sold very well. I'nt sheep, cattle and pigs were at last week’s values. Good store pigs sold well, but weaners were hard of sale and a good inanv of the small weaners wore unsaleable. there being practically no demand for this class of pig. 9'llo following prices were realised: — Sheep: Prime ewes. 2(1/- to 2J/2: 18/- to 19/6: fat wethers. 25/6 to 26/6: Downs. 23/6 to 24/9; fat lambs. 19/7. 22/- to 26/6: two-tooth wethers’. 24/9 to 25/4; medium. 22/7 to 23/-; m.a. ewes, 27/4 to 2.8/1; s.m. ewes. _2l/- to’ 22/8: fattening ewes. good. In/- to 18/10: small two-tooth owes to 28/8; wether lambs good, to 17/8: medium. 11/- to 16/6culls. 8/- io 12/-: b.f. lambs. 13/10. 15/1 to 16/4 ; one-shenr Romney rams. Igns. to .signs.: two-stienr. "gns. lo gns; aged. 20/- to 50./-; one-shear ftowns, 2gns. to -ilgns.; mixed, aged. 20/to I.">/-.

Catlie: Crime ex dairy young eows and heifetv. £5/15/- to £6/10/-; prime Holstein cows. £6 to £7's/-; tat cows. £4 to £5/5/-; light. £3/5/- to £4: heavy bulls, £4/5/- to £4/10/-; light. £2/5/- to £3 5/-; weaner .Jersey heifers, 30/-. Pigs: Choppers'. extra, to £3/11/-; heavy porkers. 40/- to 45/-; porkers. 32/- to 40/-; light. 27/- to 31/-: good stores. 32/- to 26/6; stores. IS/. to 21/-; good edips, 14/- to 16/6; elips. 10/- to 12/6: good weaner*. 3/- to 10 '6; small. 3/- to 6/-.

Vealerr': Hood vealors*. £2''l2 '6 to £3 -; £l/15'- to £2, 10.-: lacking tish, 20/- to 32/6: calves, 7/6 to 25/-.

Good Demand at Westfield

By Telegraph—Press Association. Aucldand, March 17. The heaviest yarning of beef lor a considerable time -sold under lair demand at last week's reduced rates al \\ e.stlield today Bome of the lines! quality catlie brought to market fur mauy months were divided between butchers and exporters. Extra choice ox made 33/-; choice and prime, 29/- to 32/-: ordinary, 24/- to 28/-; prime cow and belter heel, 2u/- to 29/-; ordinary, 16/- lo 24/-; extra heavy prime steers, 10 nm 'c xll/-’/6 to £ll/17/6; medium, £lO/2/6 to £ll/5/-; light, £9 to £lO/10/-; unfinished extra heavy prime cows and heifers, £8 to £l.O/16/6; heavy,, £6/10/to £7/16/6; medium, £6 to £6/li/b; light. £4 to £5/16/6; untinisheil, to £4/5/-. ~ . . Another short yarding ot sheep included a good proportion of fair quality stock. Aalues were quoted firm on last week's improved rates. An average entry of lambs sold readily at steady prices, quality being satisfactory, Exporters bought several choice lines. Extra heavy wethers made 33/- to 34/-; heavy, -J/ b to 32/9; medium, 27/- to 29/-; light, 24/- to 27/9; unfinished, 28/- to 26/9; heavy ewes, 24/- to 26/-; medium 22/- to 24/-; light, 19/- to 22/-; unfinished, b/7o 9/9; prime lambs, 22/- to 31/-; unfinished, 10/6 to 21/9. Calves were as numerous as last week but the quality was not up to the usual standard. Bidding was firm,- prime quality sorts being to 3/- a bead better than recent reduced rates. There was little eltaii'T in other quotations. Runners sold at £2/10/- to £5/12/6; heavy vealers £3/18/- to £5; medium, ±3/u/- to £3/11/-; £ -, / SA to £2/18/-; smaller £l/16/- to £2/3/-; unfinished, 18/to £l/12/-; bobby and rough, 3/- to 15/-. An average supply of pigs, including 'mostly porkers, was traded at late values. Duality generally was good. Choppers made £l/5/- to £/18/-; heavy baeoners, £3/9/- to £3/12/-; medium, £3/3/- to £3/7/-: light. £2/17/- *3/ 2 /-! heavy porkers, £2/8/- to £2'l3/-; medium. £2/2/- to 1 £2/6/-; liaht, £l/10/- to £l/1/-; unfinished. £l/5/- to £l/11/-; stores, IS/- to £l/7/-; . slips. 10/to 19/-: weaners, 4/- to 12/-. Baeoners and porkers averaged to s}d. per lb.

Levin Sale Dominion Special Service. Levin, March 17. Messrs. Abraham and AA'illiams Ltd. report that at their weekly sale yesterday there were good yardings of pigs and medium yardings of sheep and cattle, which were presented to the usual attendance

of bi'jerw. I'ompetition wan keen ami prieen' remaiiK’.l ou a par with those of the previous week. Realisations were as follows Pigs: Light icrk. 32, 6. 37.'b_: medium, 37/G t<> £2/2/-; heavy to £2/15/-; choppers, 30/- io 12 17'6; weaner*. 6 - to 9/-: e-lins, 10/- to 1-1/-. Sheep: Stores. !.»/- tn 29 6; store ewiv., 13/- io 15 6; lambs-. 10/- to 12'6; b.f. lanibn, chorn. IS/- to 18/10; S.D. rams, Ign. to 3,]gns. ~ , Cattle: l''at cows, £3 In - tn L 1 ; heavy fats. I'4 10/- to £.>/.>/-; extra heavy ditto, £5 to £6; prime extra heavy. £6/17/6 to £7 15 -: bullocks-,_£S to £S 15/-; runners. £l7/6 to £4/17/6:_ vealers, 26 ’- to £2/17/6; store vows, £2 to £3; bulls. £3/10 to £5 '5/-. Dairy stock: Springing cows:, £4 to £•>

Good Clearance at Marton

Marton, March 17. 'rhe Now Zealand Far tn ers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Co.. Ltd., report a yarding of 1800 6-heep ami 50 pigs at the Marton sale to-day. There was a good attendance and the market was firm throughout. The yarding consisted principally of aged owes and several pens of well-bred medium lambs, and with the exception of one pen we report a total clearance as follows: —- Good medium two-tooth ewes. 20/l to 29/-; small, 24/3; goot four ami five-year ewes, 25/9: good five-year ewes. 23/2; six-yoar ewes, good condition, 20/2 ; tattening ewes. 13/4 to 16/-; far ewee, 17/9 to 18/-; tail-end lots. 7/3; good medium ewe lambs. 2(1/3 to 23/10; smaller lots to 15/9: good w.f.w. lambs. 15/7 to 15/9: forward shorn b.f. lambs, 17/10; medium woolly to 13/1 ; medium wether lambs. 10/2 to 11/2; medium tn.s. lambs, 14/1; tail-end lots to 6/-; S.D. rams, llgus. to 2lgns'.; aged. Ign.; culls. Ign. Best weaner pigs-, 1.4/6 to 16/-; medium sorts,’9/- to 12/-; small sorts, 5/6 to 8/6.

Masterton Sale

Mastertoil, March 17. At the Masterton sale to-day the Loan and Mercantile Co., Ltd., offered* 1563 sheep, 20 head of cattle, and 35 pigs, to a large attendance of buyers. Breeding ewes sold at late rates, and lambs met an improved market. Prices; — Sheep: Two-tooth ewes, account H. Myers, 33/-; account other vendors. 26/6 to 29/-; four and six-tooth ewes, 27/6; seven-vea'r ewes, 27/- to 27/6; tn.a. ewes, 22/6; aged ewes. 16/- to 17/6; b.f. lambs. 15/- to 17/-; woolly wether lambs. 17/6; cull lambs, 8/3 to 10/6; good Southdown ranis, sgns.; aged S.D. rams, 1 to 2gns. Cattle: Fat cows, ex dairy. £4 to £4 6/-; forward cows, ex dairy, £3/IQ/- to £3/15/-; weaner J_ersey bull, £l/2/6.

Pigs: Porkers. £2/2/-; good weaners. 14/- to 15/-; weaners, 10/- to 11/6: small weaners, 6/-. AV right, Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., submitted 2760 sheep and effected a total clearance. Bidding was more spirited than last week, and prices were firmer, lambs showing the biggest iuiprovemeut. Prices: —

Sheep: Four-tooth to four-year ewes, to 27/3; two-tooth ewes, to 32/-; four-tooth ewes, to 26/-; f.m. ewes, 15/10'to 19/4; cull ewes. 11/- to 12/10; b.f. lambs. 15/11 to 19/10; medium woolly wether lambs, to 15/10: medium shorn wether lambs, 16/6 to 18/5; small shorn wether lambs. 11 /5 to 13/7 ; medium shorn ewe lambs, to’ls/6; cull lambs. 4/6 to 8/-: fat four-tooth wethers. 10_27/4; forward four-tooth wethers, to 24/7; fat b.f. twotooths, to 26/-; forward b.f. two-tootbs. to 22/10; one-shear S.D. rains, to aligns.; three-shear S.D. ranis. 41 to 7gns.; m.a. S.D. rams, to 11gns.; aged S.D. rams, Ign. to Ign. Pigs: Good weaners. 10/- to 10/-; porkers, '33/- to 47/-.