LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 92, 12 January 1939, Page 6

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Varied Trend at Many of Yesterday’s Sales

With the exception of a few small recessions, prices showed little change at yesterday’s Johnsonville stock sale. Light and medium-weight bullocks were down 5/- to 10/- a head on the previous week, ami light: and unfinished cows were down 10/-. Prices for prime sheep were maintained, but light wethers were (id. to 1/- a head clieapei. 1 rime lambs were wanted, but inferior sorts were hard to sell.

Keener competition resuited for a smaller yarding 01. beei. at jestfield, where prices remained firm. Values for slieep and lambs shotted a slight advance on late rates. Bacouers made the best sale in the pig section, which was exceedingly heavy.

Fat cattle values remained firm in a heavy yarding at Stortl’ord Lodge, when more than 300 head were offered. Store cattle, on the other hand, were hard to quit, even at decidedly lower rates. A small yarding of fat slieep met good competition, resulting in a sharp improvement in values.

Store cattle met a keen market at Wanganui, ami late rates were maintained. The average range of prices for all classes of sheep was 5/- lower than for the corresponding sale last year. ' Beef, mutton, ami pork were slightly easier on last week’s rates, but there was a. keen sale for store pigs.

Prices for fat slieep recovered tiie margin lost last week at Addington yesterday, when only a'small entry was yarded. Cattle, however, were slightly easier because of a heavy supply. Butchers competed for fat lambs and rates rose above Hie export schedule. Porkers sold to late rates and bacouers with little variation.

Because of the small yarding, values for heavy bullocks at Burnside showed an advance of about 10/- a head. I alues also improved fo>. heavy wethers and ewes, which were firmer by 1/- a head. Fat lambs realized full schedule rates, as did store pigs. Fat pigs receded in value by 5/- to 10/- on recent late rates.

Johnsonville A large yarding of cattle and an average yarding of sheep were offered at the week'lv Johnsonville stock sale yesterdaj. The bullocks penned were chiefly heavyweight cattle, with a few pens of light and mediumweight. Extra prime heavy bullocks met with good, competition, prices .showing little alteration, and light and niediuiuweight bullocks were earner bv 5/- to 10/- a head. Unfinished bullocks were hard to quit even at reduced rates The yarding of cows and hellers was of good quality. Prime heavy cows met with good competition, with prices firm ou last week. Lightweight and unfinished cows were easier by 10/- a head. No prime runners came forward. The wetherd penned were of good quality, all classes meeting with good competition. Prices were linn on last week for prime sheep and light wethers were easier bv 6d. to 1/- a head. Very few hoggets‘came forward. There was a smaller yarding of ewes than usual, prices showing no alteration. A large yarding ot lambs met a demand only for prime quality, inferior lambs being hard to sell.

Quotations: — , , Prime extra heavy bullocks, ilu/JU/to £l4/15/-, prime £l4/13/- io £l3/10/-, heavy £l3/5/- io £l2/18/-, light and unfinished £l2 to £lO/10/-; extra prime heavv cows and heifers £O/18/- to £J. prime heavy £B/10/- to £B. others? U 10/- to £6/18/-; runners £4/18/- tv £4.; vealers £2/2/- to 20/-. Prime .extra heavy wethers to 20/3. prime heavy 20/- to 19/-, medium 1.8/6 to 17/-; prime extra heavy ewes 15/3 to 13/S, prime heavy 13/6 to 12/6, medium 11/6 io 8/-; heavy hoggets 2.1./to 20/-. light. 19/- to 17/6; heavy spring iambs 22/- to 20/-, medium 18/9 to 12/6. Westfield By ’.telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, January 11. A smaller yarding ol’ beef provoked keen competition at the Westfield stock sale today, when some very good average prices were made in nil sections. Prices: Extra choice ox bee! made, 38/a 1001 b.; choice and prime, 33/- to 37/-; choice and prime cow and heifer, 30/-to 35/-; boner and rough, 22/- to 29/-. Extra heavv prime steers made £l4/o/- to £l5/17/6; heavy, £l3 to £l4/17/6; medium, £ll to £l3; light, £9/10/- to £ll 15/-; unfinished, £5/15/- to £lO/10Aj extra heavv prime cows and heifers, £J to £lO/15/-; heavy, £7/10/- to_£9/o/s medium, £6/5/- to £8; light, £u to £7; unfinished. £3/5/- to £5/1.0/-. Competition was steady throughout a long sheep sale. and. generally, firm rates were maintained with advances in some instances. Prices: Extra heavy prime wethers made 22/3 to 24/-; heavy, 21/3 to 22/3: medium, 19/6 to 21/9; light 10/3 to 19/9; unfinished. 14/- to 17/-; extra heavy prime ewes. .15/- to 16/9; heavy, 13/- to 15/3; medium. 11/6 to 13/9; light, 8/3 to 11/6; unfinished. 1/- to 8/6, "Lambs came forward in average numbers and values improved' slightly, prime lambs making 22/- to 25/3, and others, 5/6 to 21/9. Good quality runners and vealers were .in demand in a small yarding of calves, and values for these firmed a little; poorer sorts made late quotations. Prices: Runners made £3 to £l3; heavy vealers, £5 Io £6/10/-; medium, £4. to £5/5/-; light, £3 to £4/6/-; smaller. £2 2/- to £3/5/-: small, 18/- to £2/8/-; bobby and rough, 3/- to £l/10/-. Bacouers were keenly sought in a slightly larger entry of pigs, and improved in price. Porkers sold* steadily and choppers made £2 to £5/1/-. , Prices: Heavy porkers realized £2/16/to £3/4/-; medium, £2/10/- to £2/16/-; light £2/3/- to £2/8/-: small and unfinished. £l/10/- to £2/1/-; heavy bacouers, £3/15/. to £4/1/-; medium. £3/10/- to £3/14/-; light, £3/4/- to £3/10/-; stores, 30/- to 38/-; slips, 24/- to 30/-; weaners, 1.0/- to 25/-; baconers averaged_6id. to OJd. a lb., and porkers, 7d. to '}<!• Addington Bv Telegraph— Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, January 11. There was a recovery in prices of tat sheep at the weekly stock market at Addington today because of the small entry due to farmers being busy with early harvesting. There was a heavier supply ot (at cattle, which showed an easing in price. Store lambs sold well. The store sheep entry practically comprised of lambs, of which about ooW were penned. For forward lambs a, very steady sale resulted, ami a number of pens sold from 15/- to 16/4. Less forward lambs sold at 13/6 to 1.4/6; and backward sorts up to 10/-. A pen of 148 ewe lambs sold at 17/1. . The entry of fat lambs comprised about 2650 head, but quality was somewhat disappointing, a fair proportion of light lambs being penned. The schedule was

Wanganui

Dominion Special Sehvice

unaltered from that of last week —to ifd. for 36's and under—and for this class butchers were dominant. paying a fraction more than the export schedule. Other grades made full schedule rates, except for rough and unfinished, which brought no more than the best lambs in the store pens. Tiie fat sheep entry was the smallest for some months, totalling about. 3300 Ifead, compared with 5000 last week. The small entry reflected in the sharp advances in prices and most of the loss of last week was, on the average, more than recovered. 'There were no more wethers than the local trade could do with, and these rose on hist week’s rates by about 3/- a head. Good ewes recoverd by 21/for better sorts and light ewes by 1/-. Prices Extra prime heavy wethers realized to 25/1; prime heavy, 22/9 to 24/-: prime medium, 20/6 to 22/6; light, to 17/-: extra prime heavy ewes, to 19/10; prime heavy, 17/6 to 19/6; prime medium, 14/- to 17/-; light, to _9/6.

The entry in the fat cattle section constituted something of a glut, for this season of the year, when the demand for beef normally declined because of the hot weather. The penning comprised 545 head compared with, 390 last week, quality being better than it has been at an ordinary sale this season. The market opened indifferently, but under the pressure of the heavy entry weakened and on an average good steers were down by 10/-, with cows and heifers a similar amount, and heavy steers by 15/-. Prices: Best geef sold at 33/- to 35/-, tops to 36/- and medium 31/- to 32/6 a 1001 b. Extra prime heavy steers brought to £l5/17/6; prime heavy, £l4 to Jl5 5/-; prime medium, £l2/10/- to £l3/15/-; light, to £9/5/-; extra prime heifers, to £l2/2/6; prime, £9/5/- to £lO/10/-; light, to £6/15/-; extra prime cows, to £lO 12/6; prime, £7/5/- to £9/5/-; light and aged, to £5/5/-. 'There was a large entry of both pork and bacon in the fat pig section, and pork prices concluded about, on a parity with hist. week. Baconer pigs showed very little variation, competition being rather lifeless. Prices: Porkers realized 36/6 to 57/6; average price a lb. Gid. to 7id.; baconers, 56/6 (o £4/2/6; average price a lb., 6d. to Bjd. Burnside Bv 'l?elegr:ij»h—Pros,-? Association. DUNEDIN, January 11. In the fat: cattle section of the Burnside stock sale today, there was a much smaller yarding of prime heavy bullocks, the market opening with values for this typo firmer by IQ/- a head. The bulk of the offering consisted of mediumweights with a fair proportion of cows and heifers, for which there was a firm sale at late rates.

Prices: Extra prime heavy bullocks made to £l9/12/6; prime bullocks, to £l7 7/6 ; medium, £l2/15/- to £l4/7/6 ; light, £lO/17/6 to £ll/17/6; extra prime heavy cows and heifers made to £l4/7/6 ; prime, £B/12/6 to £9/12/6; medium. £7/2/6 to £B,'2/6; and light, £5/5/- to £6/7/6. 'l'he fat sheep entry was smaller than last week, 1532 being penned, the bulk of the entry being mediumweights. Prime heavy wethers and ewee were in an improved demand, values being firmer by 1/- a head. .Prices; Extra prim heavy wethers made to 27/9; prime. 21/6 to 23/-; medium, 18/- tn 19/6; light, 1.6/- to 1.7/6: extra prime heavy ewes made to 22/-; prime, 15/- to 18/6: medium, 11/- to 13/6; and light, 8/6 to 10/6. There was a medium entry of fair quality fat: lambs, values' keeping up to full schedule rates.

Prices: Prime heavy made to 27/-; prime, 22/- to 23/6; medium, 19/- to 21/-; and light, 17/6 to 18/9. There was only a small entry of store cattle, there being a keen demand for cows and heifers at full late rates. Dairy cattle and vealers were poorly represented, though they were in fair demand. There was a good entry of fat pigs, mostly baconers, which eased in value by 5/- to 10/- a head. Store pigs met with a good demand, values being firm at late rates.

WANGANUI. January 11. At the Wanganui stock"sale today, Freeman R. Jackson and Co.’s offerings were considerably smaller, and there was a totally new range of prices for store anil fat. sheep. All lambs were about 5/a head below last year’s corresponding sale. The general condition of today’s lamb entry was only fair, with no really forward-condition rape lambs offering. A good attendance of buyers was present and competition was quite good. A good entry of store cattle was yarded, and there was a good sale for cattle of two years and over, but without the same competition for yearling cattle. Beef, mutton and porkers were down slightly ou last week, but there was a keen sale for all classes of store pigs. Quotations: — Sheep: Prime heavy tambs realized 23/2 to 24/-; light fat, 19/3 to 20/9; light wethers, 18/2 to 18/3; fat ewes, 9/- to 10/6; forward woolly b.f. lambs, 11/2 to .15/6; shorn, to 14/9; culls, 8/5 to 9/5; woolly wether lambs, to 12/7; shorn, .1.1/- to 13/7: good culls, 6/1.1 to 8/-; small, 3/2 to 5/9; cull ewe lambs, to .11/6.

Cattle: Fat P..\. cows and heifers brought £6/10/- to. £7/15/-; fat Hereford heifers, to £7 ; heavy ex dairy cows, £5 to £5/10/-; fat, £4 to £5; forward bullocks, £B/17/6 to £9; 3-year steers, £7 13/- to £8: 2.1-yeur P.A, steers, to £7 12/6; yearling P.A. steers. £4/5/- to £5 .1/-; good 15-month P.A. heifers, £4/3/to £4/4/-; small, £2/JB/- to £3/5/-; Hereford heifers, to £3/15/-; store P.A. heifers and cows, to £6; crossbred paddock cows, £4/3/- to £4/10/-; boner cows, £l/10/- to £3/5/-; heavy bulls, to £7 10/-; average, £4/15/- to £5/10/-; dairy cows, in milk, to £7; springing, £6 to £7; aged and backward, £3/5/- to £4/10/-. Pigs: Heavy porkers made £2/2/6 to £2 10/-_; average, £l/15/- to £2; light, 31/lo 35/-; good slips, 29/- to 32/-; average, 24/- to 27/6; good weaners, 18/- to 21/6: small. 13/- te 17/-. Vealers, average, made £2/5/- to £3 7/6; light runners, io £-1.

Stortford Lodge Dominion Special Service, HASTINGS, January 11. Though there was a large yarding of fat cattle, totalling 300 head, at Stortford Lodge today, values for best sorts were fully firm on last week. Plainer animals, however, were difficult to quit at decidedly lower prices.

A. draft of prime bullocks from Rukumoana Station, Te Pohuc, made up to 12 and averaged close to 30/- a 1001 b. Primo heifers were in short supply and made up to £9/14/-; cows made to £8 .1.0/-, averaging up to 24/- a 1001 b.

The yarding of store cattle was a very small one of 200 head, the outstanding entry being a Gue of 27 three-year forward bullocks, which made to £lO. A very small yarding of fat slieep, about 450 head, saw a sharp improvement m values, heavy ewes making up to 15/4. The store sheep yarding was practically all lambs, totalling 13.000, and the market for the best lilies showed a very slight eassing on last week. An extra forward line offered on behalf of the Kay Estate, Puketapu, made to 16/8; forward Down cross lambs, rape lines, made to 15/.6; small grown lines were slow to sell, making as low as 8/-; forward two-tooth wethers made to 15/6.

Quotations : — Fat cattle: On account, of Rukumoana Station, Te Pohue. six heavy Aberdeen Angus cross bullocks, light prime condition, sold to £ll/12/-; account of the same vendors, two horned Hereford bullocks, medium, prime finished, made £ll 15/-; in the same pen three dehorned Hereford cross bullocks averaged £lO 15/-; six heavy-framed Shorthorn cross bullocks, medium prime order, sold at £l2; a single heavy Aberdeen AngusShorthorn cross bullock sold at £l2/10/-; a pen of Aberdeen Angus cross bullocks, better finished than the previous pens, sold at £l2; account of Mr. G. Holden, Pukehaumoamoa, an entry of prime finished Aberdeen Angus cross heifers sold to £9/7/6; a draft of prime quality Aberdeen Angus heifers from Kereru Station sold from £B/19/- to £9/14/-; account Mr. C. J. Phillips. Middle Road, several pens of Aberdeen Angus cross and Shorthorn cross cows made to £B/9/-; two pens of dehorned Hereford cows macle to £7; on account of Mr. M. Connor, Omapere, six horned Hereford cows, well finished, sold up to £7/14/-. Store cattle: A line of 28 three-year steers realized to £7/15/-; a line of 20 two-year dehorned Heret’ords to £7/10/-; a line of 27 forward Polled Angus bullocks to £lO. Fat sheep: Prime heavy ewes brought, up to 15/4; medium 1.2/- to 1.3/-; lighter

down to 9/-; best wethers up to 21/-; fat lambs, best 20/8.

Store sheep: Ou account of Apley Station 406 woolly Romney cross wether lambs realized to 12/-; on account of Mr. .11. Hassall, 300 Romney cross wether woolly lambs, medium order, made 13/-; on account of Apley Station 200 early-shorn two-tooth wethers made to 13/9; on account of Mr. C. Miller, Mangakuri. 151. woolly Romney cross wether lambs, good condition, made 13/-; on account of Te Aute College, 158 woolly Romney cross wether lambs, forward condition, made 15/3; account Mr. S. Williams, Mangakuri, 208 woolly Romney cross wether lambs, medium grown and good store order, made 12/3; account Mr. G. Mabey, Waikare. 174 small-grown lyoolly Romney cross wether Jambs, light, condition, to 8/9 ; on account of Mr. F. M. Jenkins, Sherenden. 204 forward Down cross lambs, splendid order and off the hills, to 16/6; 195 smallergrown Down cross lambs, to 14/5; 200 Down cross lambs, medium grown, to 13/8; 394 small-grown Romney cross wether lambs, light condition, to 8/-; account Messrs Brodie and Peacock, Te Apiti, .138 woolly Romney cross wether lambs, good order, to 14/1; account Mr. F. M. Jenkins, Sherenden, 201 small to medium-grown Down cross lambs, to .12/8; account of Kereru Station, 181 forward Romney cross wether lambs, to .15/1; account Mr. A. J. Field, Middle Road. 130 early-shorn two-tooth ewes, good condition, to 25/4; from the Springhill Station, Nuhaka, 256 small to medi-um-grown woolly Romney cross wether lambs, light condition, to 8/9; account Mr. M. Gordon, 'Taurapa Station, 518 shorn Romney cross wether lambs, good order, 10/7; account of Kereru Station, 100 woolly Romney cross wether lambs, good store condition, to 11/9; from Atua Station, 308 nicely-growu fat and forward Romney cross woolly wether lambs, very good condition, to 14/-; account Mr. E, MaeKintyne, a Hue of Romney cross woolly wether lambs, good store condition, to 11/-; account of Kay Estate, Puketapu, 163 extra well-grown, wellwoolled Romney cross wether lambs, very forward condition, 16/8; account Mr. lan McGregor, 189 woolly Romney cross wether lambs, 11/3; from the same source, 150 similarly bred lambs, lighter order, 9/1; from Kairakau, 101 earlyshorn, well-framed two-tooth wethers, very forward condition, 15/6.