LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 70, 16 December 1937, Page 19

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Cattle Demand Uneven At Yesterday s Sales

Beef values firmed at Westfield, extra choice ox realising 39/- per 1001 b. Choice sheep were forward, and extra heavy wethers brought to 30/6. Extra heavy ewes made to 23/- and prime lambs to 27/6. Porkers rose in price, making to £3, and baconers brought to £4/1/-. There was a good yarding and keen demand, at Stortford Lodge. Ox beef macle to 36/- per 1001 b. Four heavy Aberdeen Angus cross bullocks brought £l3/8/6, and a Shorthorn cross prime heifer realised £ll/15/-. A line of store lambs made 19/7. Early shorn four-tooth wethers brought 23/6. Fat ewes sold up to 18/3. A'alues declined very sharply at the Wanganui market, best prime cattle and sheep showing the greatest drop. Prime heavy ewes made to 19/- light two-tooth wethers to 25/8 and heavy lambs to 29/-. Good Hereford heifers brought to £S/15/-, Jersey cows to £6/5/-, light baconers realised to £2/15/-, porkers to 45/- and good weaners to 14/-. There were large entries at Addington, about 300(1 store wetlieis being forward, the best making to 25/5. Best fat ewes brought to 29/-. Steers sold at up to £l7, extra special heifers and cows to £l3. Pigs eased, porkers making to 51/6 and baconers to £4/15/6. Fat cattle eased at. Burnside, extra prime bullocks milking to £l9/15/and extra prime cows and heifers to £ll/7/6. Prime wethers brought to £l/14/9, prime young ewes to £l/9/- and fat lambs to £l/10/- Baconers were worth lo £4/5/- and porkers to £3.

Westfield

By Telegraph—Presi Association.

Auckland, December 15.

Beef values firmed at late rates at Westfield to-da- lower grade stock being dearer. In many instances quality was good in the ox section, but again inferior and patchy among the cows. Restricted selection produced stronger competition. Extra choice ox realised 39/a 1001 b., choice and prime, 33/- to 38/-; unfinished, 25/- to 35/-; prime cow and heifer beef, 30/- to 37/-; unfinished, 22/to 32/-. Extra heavy steers made £l2 15/. to £l4; heavy, £l2/12/6 to £l4; medium, £ll/10/- to £l2/15/-; light, £lO 7/6 to £ll/12/6; unfinished, £7/10/- to £lO/5/-; extra heavy cows and heifers, £9 to £lO/17/6; heavy, £7/10/- to £3 15/-; medium, £6/15/- to £7/10/-; light, £5 to £6/10/-; unfinished, £3 to £4/15/-.

Prime quality sheep were offered in large numbers, some ot the choicest lines available for some time being sold at firm rates. Sheep lacking finish were inclined to be easier in price. Extra heavy wethers brought 29/- to 30/6; heavy, 27/6 to 28/6 ; medium, 26/- to 27/-; light, 24/- to 25/9; unfinished, 18/- to 23/6; extra heavy ewes, 20/- to 23/-; he_ayy, 18/- to 19/6; medium, 16/6 to 17/9; light, 14/9 to 16/6; unfinished, 5/- to 15/-. Lambs were in keen demand for Christmas markets and realised fully firm values on recent schedules. Prime grades ranged 21/- to 27/9; smaller and unfinished, 10/- to 20/6. The full supply of calves lacked quality and bidding was very slack. Prices declined about 5/- a head, making a decrease of more than 8/- in two weeks. The demand for calves has deteriorated unaccountably. Runners realised £2 10/- to £6/12/6; heavy vealers, £4 to £5/5/-; medium, £3 to £4/2/-; light, £2 6/. to £3/6/-; smaller, £l/10/- to £2/8/-; rough, 10/- to 24/-; bobby, 5/- to 14/-. A large proportion of prime baconers was included in the good yarding of pigs. There was no improvement in bacon values but the keen demand for porkers resulted in a general increase of 1/- a head. Stores sold readily. Choppers brought £2 to £4/9/-; heavy baconers, £3/14/- to £4/1/-; medium. £3/8/- to £3 12/-; light. £3/1/- to £3/6/-; heavy porkers, £2/12/- to £3; medium. £2/5/- to £2/12/-; light, £l/19/- to £2/6/-; unfinished, £l/9/- to £l/17/-: stores, 27/to 35/-; slips, 20/- to 29/-; weaners, 10/to 22/-. Baconers averaged 6id. a lb., and porkers 61dWanganui Dominion Special Service. Wanganui, December 15. Although easing from week to week, the AA'anganui live stock market has been until to-day at slightly higher values than surrounding markets; but to-day sale values receded very heavily to a parity with other centres. The primest and heaviest cattle and sheep showed the greatest drop, light weights not showing the same decline. Heavyweight cows declined up to £2 a head, while prime heavy ewes declined 2/- to 3/6 a head. Fat pigs were also decidedly easier. No store sheep were offered. A good entry of store cattle came forward but lacked the keen bidding of last week’s sale, passings being fairly frequent under the hammer. Private sales made afterward disposed of most of the yarding. The final sale of the year will be held on Tuesday. Quotations arc as follows:— Sheep: Prime heavy ewes. 17/- to 19/-; handy weights, 1(5/6 to 18/6; light twotooth wethers, 24/9 to 25/8; light b.f. 21/6 to 23/6; heavy lambs, 29/-; good, 24/- to 26/-; light, 20/- to 22/6. Cattle: Extra heavy Hereford cows, £7/10/- to £B/2/6; good, £7 to £7/15/-; heifers, good, £7 to £B/15/-; prime heavy ex dairy cows, good colours, £5/15/6 to £7; Jerseys, good, £5/10/- to £6/5/-; average, £4/12/6 to £5/7/6; light, £3 15/- to £4/12/6; store P.A. and Hereford cows,, £5/9/6 to £6/3/-; P.A. threeyear steers, £9; two-year R.S. steers, £8; cows and calves, £6; two-year Hereford heifers, £4/17/6; good yearling heifers, £4/15/-; yearling P.A. steers, to £5/5/6; boner cows. £2 to £3/15/-; heavy bulls, extra, to £9; average. £3/10/- to _£s; dairy cows, in milk, £3/15/- to £5/5/-; extra, to £7/10/-. Pigs: Light baconers. £2/10/- to £2 15/-; heavy porkers, 35/- to 45/-; average, 30/- to 35/-; light. 27/- to 30/-; good stores. 22/- to 26/-; average. 16/to 21/-; good slips, to 18/-; average, 14/to 16/-: good weaners, to 14/-; average, 9/- to 12/-.

A’ealers: Good vealers. £3/7/6 to £4 8/-; average, 35/- to £3; small calves, 17/- to 25/-.

Addington

By Telegraph—Press Association.

Christchurch, December 15.

Entries at to-day's weekly market at Addington were larger than normal, the main increase being in the store sheep -section. About 3000 wethers were forward from Marlborough and the Chatham Islands, and with the improved feed prospects and better tone of the wool mar.cet wethers advanced by 2/- a head. Best local wethers made to 25/5, Pitt Island to 23/9, and a big pen of Marlborough to 18/-. Fat lambs: A small entry was msu.ficient for butchers’ needs and butchers dominated the market, prime lambs making from B|d. to 9(1. per lb. Fat sheep: 5250 were penned. Exporters bought more freely than usual, paying slightly more for light ewes, with wethers up to the best of last week’s rates. Heavyplain ewes were the only 'class to ease generally. The market was up to 1/6 a head better. Best wether prices were 29/- to 32/4, medium-weight prime 2u/to 28/-; best ewes to 29/-, good 24/- to 26/-, freezing 16/- to 17/-. Fat cattle: 425 were penned. Prime medium and lightweights retained values, selling for the best sorts at up to 40/- a 1001 b. Heavy bodies were down by about 20/- a head. Best steers sold from £li> to £l7, good £l2/10/- to £l4/10/-; extra special heifers and cows to £l3, good heifers £9 to £lO/10/-: good cows £8 to £lO, light down to £4/10/-. Eat pigs: The market eased still further, export buyers restricting their purchases. Porkers made from 29/6 to 51/6, an average a pound of 6d. to 6Jd. Baconers made 54/6 to £4/15/6, an average a pound of 6d. to 6Jd. Store pigs: A keen sale. Weaners brought 14/- to 23/-: slips, 24/- to 26/-; stores, 27/- to 31/-. Stortford Lodge Dominion Special Service. Hastings, December 15. A better yarding and keener demand, particularly for store sheep, were features of the Stortford Lodge live stock sale today. There was a sound market for fat cattle, and although values showed a drop of 15/- a head on the extreme prices paid last week, due to a very short yarding, ox beef made 36/- a 1001 b. and heifer 31/6; there was a very firm tone throughout for store sheep, the first line of s_tore lambs offered this season making 19/7. 'The fat sheep market showed little life despite the fact that the yarding was very small. Some realisations were :— Fat cattle: Account Athol AVilliame, Netherton station, entry of horned heavy prime Hereford cows, extra good order, £lO/10/-; line o'f well-finished heavy prime Hereford cows from Mangakuri Station, £lO/5/-; pen of dehorned aged Hereford cows carrying a lot of condition, £7/7/6; account R. Harding, Raukawa, four heavy’ well-finished Aberdeen Angus cross bullocks showing prime quality, £l3/8/6; in the same pen a single heavy prime shorthorn bullock, £l4/10/-; also from Raukawa, five dehorned Hereford bullocks, smaller than the previous pen but equally well finished, £l2/15/-; account 11. Al. Glazebrook, AVashpool, draft of several pens of dehorned Hereford and Aberdeen Angus heifers, medium grown and solidly finished, showing prime quality throughout, sold after keen bidding at up to £lO/18/-; from Netherton Station small extra prime shorthorn heifer, £9; in the same pen, heavy shorthorn cross prime heifer, showing extra good quality, top of the market at £ll/15/-; account B. L. Chambers, Potutu Station, extra prime medium-grown Hereford heifer, £lO/5/-; account N. M. Campbell, draft of several pens of well-finished me-dium-framed Aberdeen Angus and Hereford heifers, showing good quality, up to £lO/10/-. Store sheep: 130 of a line of 682 me-dium-grown early-shorn four-tooth wethers brought 23/6. balance passed at this price; offering of 427 well-grown earlyshorn two-tooth wethers, 22/4 for the first 300. remainder making 22/7; line of 98 fat forward Southdown cross twotooths in good condition, 21/5; line of 61 early-shorn two-tooth wethers, 21/9; entry of two-tooth wethers, forward order, 22/6; line of 87 two-tooth wethers, medium to good store order, 21/8; railed from AVairoa, 94 Down cross lambs, medium to well grown and in forward order, 19/7; line of 107 two-tooth wethers, miscellaneous sorts, 21/-; line of exceptionally good Down cross two-tooth wethers, splendid condition, 22/6; trucked from AVairoa, line of medium-grown Southdown lambs, 19/4; line of shorn aged ewes with medium-grown Down cross lambs at foot, 14/6 (all counted). Fat sheep: Fat ewes brought to 18/3; good line from Pukekura, 17/6; lighter ewes down to 16/-. No wethers were penned. Lambs brought 22/- to 25/3, and a line of Leicesters averaging 301 b sold at 23/6.

Burnside By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, December 15. Fat cattle prices showed an easing at the Burnside stock sale to-day. The large yarding of 335 head included a few trucks of prime, but the bulk of the entry consisted of light to medium quality. Prices were as follows :— Extra prime bullocks to £l9/15/-, prime £l4/10/- to £l6, medium and light £lO to £l2/10/-; extra prime cows and heifers to £ll/7/6, prime £B/10/- to £lO, medium £6 to £B, light down to £4. On a per 1001 b. basis there was a general easing. Extra prime bullocks were quoted at £l/18/6, prime £l/14/-; prime cows and heifers £l/15/-, inferior quality £1 8/--

The yarding of store cattle was very large, 313 being forward. Young cattle predominated, but the demand was poor and values generally eased. One pen of exceptionally good five-year steers brought £ll/4/-. In the dairy cattle section good young sorts close to profit made to £7. The entry of fat sheep totalled 1376 head, mainly medium and light sorts. Prime wethers brought to £l/14/9, medium £l/3/- to £l/6/-, light down to 18/-; extra prime young ewes to £l/9/-, prime £l/2/- to £l/6/-, medium 16/6 to 19/-, light and inferior sorts down to 10/-. Nearly 330 fat lambs were offered and the supply was just sufficient for butchers’ requirements. A'alues firmed slightly on recent parity. Extra prime lambs brought to £l/10/-, prime £l/6/- to £l/8/6, me dium £l/2/- to £l/4/6. The fat pig section found prices on a par with those ruling a week ago. Baconers were worth to £4/5/- and porkers to £3.