Addington

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 16

Addington

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, February 23. The entry at to-day’s Adidugton market was the largest of the season, consisting of about 35,000 head, of which about 26,000 were store lambs and breeding ewes. There was an easing tendency for. all classes of stock except fat lambs, which sojjl at above the export schedule. Store lambs: About 11,000 were penned. The best pens of rape lambs sold at from 17/- to 18/6; few specially good to 20/-; Romney cross ewe lambs, to 24/3. Store sheep: Most of the ewe entry were travelled and aged. Medium to good pens of two-tooths made from 30/- to 32/-, best to 37/-; Chatham Island mixed aged ewes, 27/6 to 28/G; good four-year to 22/-, four and five-year ewes, 17/6 to 20/-; failing-mouth ewes, 14/to 16/6; a pen of Chatham Island wethers, 27/6; balfbreds, to 23/-. Fat sheep: A total of 6300 were penned. There was a general easing of about 1/- to 1/6 a head, except for export ewes, which nearly maintained recent values. Best wethers made from 29/- to 34/-, good 27/- to 28/6, medium 24/- to 26/tj, light down to 20/-; best ewes, 19/- to 23/-, a few tops to 28/-, medium 17/6 to 19/-, export sorts 14/to 16/6. / Fat cattle: A total of 520 were penned, of mixed quality, except for a few outstanding pens. ■ Values were down by 10/- to 15/- a head in the case of cows. Best beef made from 33/- to 36/- a 1001 b., a few tops to 37/6. The top price was £l9/7/6, good £l3 to £l4/15/-, medium to good £ll/10/- to £l2/5/-; good cows and heifers to £2/12/6, medium to good heifers £8 to £9/15/-; inferior and ordinary, £5 to £6/10/-.

Fat pigs; The small porker’entry improved by 2/- to 3/- a head, making from 6Jd. to 6?d. a lb. Baconers sold at a slight firming a lb., values being from 6d. to 6s. Stortford Lodge Dominion Special Service. Hastings, February 23. Record prices were made in the store cattle section at Stortford Lodge to-day. Values were admitted to be.excessive by buyers, but exceptional growth following the recent rains left them no alternative but to meet the market, which was regarded as phenomenal and greatly exceeded expectations. Fat cattle showed a general rise of 20/- a head and upward, butchers bidding strongly. Quality.pens were few in number but brought strong competition from buyers, prices finishing in record levels. Owing to butchers bidding freely poorer quality pens made very dear buying. The store sheep market was sound, with lambs slightly easier than last week. Many good lines were offered, wethers being the best buying of the day. As the sale progressed all values showed a tendency to harden. Realisations were as follows: —

Sheep: White-faced, wether lambs light, shorn, 14/-; well-grown shorn, 18/- to 18/9; medium to good, well woolled, 17/- to 18/-; Down cross, medium grown, to 18/4; two-tooth ewes, early shorn, good order, 29/9; well-woolled white-faced wethers, fairly forward condition, 18/10, good 23/-, fat and forward to 2q/-; breeding ewes, 26/1. Store cattle: Young bullocks, good order, £ll/8/-; smaller grown, £lO/8/-; small grmyn 18-month steers to £7/2/-; cows with calves at foot, £9/8/-; empty cows, good store condtiion. £7/3/-; wellbred 30-month dehorned Hereford steers, £lO/1/-. Fat cattle: Aberdeen’ Angus heifers, killing at 5501 b.. £lO/17/-, medium-fram-ed, light. £B/10/-: Red Polled;*’solidly framed, £l2; Hereford cross prime, killing at about 7001 b., £l2/5/-: Herefords, prime young, medium framed. £ll/10/-, dehorned, good quality, £ll/1. lighter finished, smaller, £9/15/- to £7; Holsteins. solidly finished, prime. £lO/15/-; Aberdeen Angus cross, solidly finished, good weights. £ll/12/6 to £ll/5/-, lighter, but. showing quality, killing out at about 5751 b.. £lO/5/-. Vealers; Hereford, good condition, well grown, passed at £4/5/-; Aberdeen Angus, small grown, medium order, 70/-. The only male cattle in this section were two badly bred unfinished Aberdeen Angus steers. Masterton Ewe Fair Dominion Special Service. Masterton, February 23. The second Masterton ewe fair was held to ; day. Dalgety and Company report that fully the advertised numbers were offered to a large attendance of buyers and local farmers. Some attractive lines of annual drafts came forward in good order and the demand from the start of the sale was strong, and prices, which were considerably firmer than late quotations, were maintained throughout. The quality of the young ewes yarded, however, was not up to the standard of past years, but competition was keen.

A good sound line of maiden four-tooth ewes sold on account of Messrs. G. and J. Moore topped the sale at 35/-, and the same vendors obtained-32/6 for a line of two-tooth ewes. 4 An attractive pen of 388 five-year ewes, sold on account of ,1-1. J. Nitz, again topped the markte in this section at 28/9.

A total clearance was effected under the hammer at satisfactory prices, which at times exceeded vendors’ expectations. Following are some of the principal sales:— One hundred and ninety-two two-tooth ewes, account G. and J. Moore, 32/6; 141 two-tooth ewes, account Otahome Estate, 27/-; 80 two-tooth ewes, account IV. A. King, 28/7; 130 two-tooth ewes, account Mrs. A. Bunny, 30/1; 174 two-tooth ewes, account G. and J. Moore, 27/10. Other two-tooth ewes, according to size and quality, 25/- to 27/6; hold-over twotooth ewes. 21/6 to 24/6; 200 maiden four-tooth ewes, account G. and J. Moore, 35/-; 138, account same vendors, 34/0; and 178 six-tooth ewes, account same vendors, 31/9. Five-year ewes: 3SS account H. J. Nitz, 28/9; 408 account Clifton Grove, 26/4; 203 account Otahome Estate. 25/1.; U2 account W. A. King, 23/8; 227 account Sulphur Wells, 23/6; 56 account H. J. Nitz, 23/1; 158 account R. D. Perry, 22/-; 76 account Clifton Grove, 21/10; 84- four-year-old ewes, account L. Donald, 27/6; 174 sixyear ewes, account Clifton Grove, 23/-, and 51 at 17/4; failing-mouth ewes, 16/- to 17/6; fattening ewes, 13/- to 15/-

The New Zealand Farmers’ Co-opera-tive Distributing Company submitted a full yarding of ewes. Top price for four-year-old ewes was obtained for a choice line on account of Mr. 11. West, Miki Miki, which brought 30/3. In the five-year-old section, a particularly attractive line on account of Mr. M, D. McGregor, Glenstrae, made 28/-, and the same vendor topped the market for six-year-olds at ( 2s/-. Following are some of the realisations :—

Best two-tooth ewes, 30/6 to 33/-; ordinary, 27/6 to 30/-; cull, 22/- to 24/-; best six-tooth ewes, 33/6; others, 28/to 30/-; best four-year-old ewes, 28/- to 30/3; others, 23/- to 27/-; extra, good five-year-old ew«, 26/6 to 28/-; good, 25/-; others, 18/6 to 23/-; best six-year-old ewes, 23/- to 26/-: good, 20/6 to 22/6; others, 17/6 to 20/-; m.a. ewes, 23/- to 27/-; aged ewes, 12/- to 16/-; b.f. lambs, 18/-: cull, 11/-. S.D. rams, 1-shear, sgns.; S.D. rams, 3-shear, 3gns.