LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 128, 23 February 1939, Page 14

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Johnsonville

Wright, Stephenson and Co.. Ltd., anil Abraham and Williams Ltd. offered a small yarding of cattle and an average yarding of sheep at the Johnsonville stock sale yesterday, ’the bullocks penned were of good quality. There was good competition for prime heavyweight, bullocks, though medium and lightweight caltie were hard to sell, with frequent passing. The cows and heifers were of good quality these meeting with good competition at prices showing no alteration. There was a good stile for runners and vealers. with prices slightly easier than those ruling last week. , No heavy wethers came forward, the yarding consisting chiefly of medium and lightweight sorts. Only prime quality wethers were sought after, these sei nig at from Gel. to 1/- a head easier titan last week and plain and unfinished sorts were hard to sell. Good quality ewes sold readily, though plainer sorts were not wanted. Prime quality lambs met wttn fervent competition at late rates,e though lightweight and plain lambs were bard to sell. Quotations are:— Cattle: Prime extra heavy bullocks. £lo 15/- to £l3/5/-; prime heavy bullocks, £l3 to £l2/8/-: heavy bullocks. £l2/o/to £ll/18/-: light and unfinished bullocks, £ll/10/- to £9; extra prime heavy cows and heifers, £9/o/- to £B/10/-, prime heavy cows and heifers, £B/8/- to £7/10/-; cows and heifers, £‘A’/- t° 3/-; runners and vealers, £3/;)/- to t--2/-: and small calves 20/- to 12/6. Sheep: I’rime extra heavy wethers, 20/6 to 19/9: prime heavy wethers. 19/b to 18/10: medium wethers. 18/6 to 1 </•->; prime extra heavy ewes. 12/6 to 10/6; prime heavy ewes. 10/3 to 9/9; medium ewes, 9/- to 7/-; heavy hoggets, 20/- to 19/-; light hoggets. 18/- to lu/3; heavy lambs 21/- to 20/-, medium bnnbs 18/6" to 15/4, light lambs 15/- to 12/6.

Westfield

By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 22. Heavily over-supplied with store and beef cattle, the market declined sharply at the weekly Westfield stock sales to the lowest levels for about a year. Ox beef lost 2/- a 1001 b. and cow beef 1/- to 3/-. Extra choice ox beef made 36/- a 100 lb.; choice and prime, 33/- to 35/-; choice and prime cow and heifer beef, 27/- to 30/-; and boner and rough, 16/- to 26/-. Extra heavy prime steers made £l2/10/to £l4: heavy, £ll/10/- to £l2/15/-; medium, £lO/JO/- to £ll/15/-; light, £9 to £lO/10/-; extra heavy prime cows and heifers, £9 to £lO/2/6; heavy, £8 to £9; medium, £6/10/- to £8; light and unfinished, £2/10/- to £6/10/-. Entries of sheep were at about an average number, and under steady competition fully firm late rates were maintained with slight increases in some cases. Extra heavy prime wethers made 22/6 to 24/-; heavy, 20/- to 22/3; medium, 17/6 to 19/9; light, 12/6'to 17/-; extra heavy prime ewes, 13/- to 14/9; heavy, 12/- to 13/-; medium, 11/- to ,12/3; light, 9/6 to 10/6; unfinished, 2/6 to 9/-. Lambs, which came forward in average numbers, sold steadily at late rates, prime lambs making 17/6 to 28/-; others, 5/- to 17/-.

The .sale was lifeless for a heavy entry of calves, and only prime quality runners and vealers made late rates, other sections losing as much as 5/- a head. Runners made £3 to.£B/5/-: heavy vealers, £3/15/- to £5/5/-; medium, £2/10/- to £4; light. £l/12/- to £2/8/-; smaller, 20/- to £l/1(1/-: small, 14/- to 19/-; and bobby and rough, 3/- to 15/-. Steady competition was responsible for the firm tendency in the sale of an average entry of fat pigs'. Heavy baconers made £3/13/- to £3/19/-; medium, £3 8/- to £3/11/-; light. £3/1/- to £3/6/-; heavy porkers, £2/14/- to £2/18/-; medium, £2/6/- to £2/11/-; light, £l/18/- to £2/3/-. Average quotations wore 6}d. to 6Jd. a lb. for baconers, and Gid. to 7d. | for porkers.

Values At Yesterday’s Sales

Addington

By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. February 22. If today's stock market in Addington is taken as an indication, ewe 'prices will be very cheap this year. , Prices were the lowest for sonic years and were on about the same basis as some slump seasons. The entry of store sheep of about 21,0(H). including about 6000 lambs, was an excellent selection, but there appeared to be very few buyers in the large crowd of farmers attending. The best of the lambs unide about last week’s rates, but inferior sorts were down by about 1/6 a head. Good rape lambs made 10/- to 13/-. with average sorts at from 7/6 to 9/6. Hold-over lambs showing signs of qualify made 4/- to 7/-, and light and plain types that made 6/- to 7/- a fortnight ago were back to 2/- and 3/6 Prices were almost disastrous in the adult sheep section. The selection of ewes was good and contained many of standard lines regularly seen at Addington at this time of the year. For the crossbreds and the few Romneys entered there was a good demand at, reasonable prices, but fine-woolled sheep were difficult to sell. It took exceptional fouryear halfbreds to make 11/-, and the best five-year ewes made to 9/6.. The best two-tooth ewes made to 25/6, but the great bulk sold at from 13/- to 16/-, and good aged ewes sold at from 4/- to 6/-. Yalues'were lower than for some years. The fat lamb entry was about 2000. as compared with 1800 last week. The quality generally was spoilt by too big a proportion of light lainbs. Good butchers’ lambs met keen competition at full schedule rates and, in cases, a trifle more. The fat sheep entry of about 0000 was almost the same as last week's, but the quality was better. At the outset there was a marked decline in price for ewes and wethers, but as the sale progressed buyers warmed up „ and prices returned to about ' the same levels as last week, except. for light, freezing ewes, which were about 6d. cheaper over all. The sale was slightly easier than last week, but not. quotalily so. Extra prime heavy wethers made to 24/7, prime heavy, 20/6 to 22/-; pritneTnedium, 18/- to 20/-; light, to 15/-; and extra prime heavy ewes made o 16/4; prime heavy,, 13/- to 14/9; prime medium, 11/3 to 12/9; light to 8/6.

The entry of fat cattle, which numbered 540 against 460 last week, was considered too large for requirements, and though, the quality was better than for some "weeks' the. sale was dull. Values were down by £1 a head all round, and much of the best steer beef failed to make 30/- a 1001 b., the choicest not exceeding 32/6. Extra prime heavy steers made to £l5/17/6: prime eavy, £l2/10/- to £l3/10/-; prime medium, £lO/10/- to £l3; light, to £7/15/-; extra prime heifers to £lO/7/6; prime £B/10/- to £9/10/-; medium, £6/10/- to £8; light, to £6; and extra prime cows to £9/17/6; prime, £6 10/- to £8; medium, £4/15/- to £6; light, 'to £4/10/-.

In the fat pig section the entry of porkers was small at the start, but the numbers increased, later making practically a normal offering. From the outset values maintained the high level of last week but when the last face was reached there was a drop of from 2/-,_ to 3/- it head. Developed choppers were in medium supply and again met ;i good sale. Baeonei'S were forward in medium numbers and prices were fully maintained at last week’s rates. Porkers made 44/6 to 56/6. an average price a lb. of from 61d. to 740.; and baconers made 59/6 to £4 12/6. ait average price a lb. of from 6d. to 6Jd. Choppers made £3/3/6 to £5/3/6.

Stortford Lodge

'Dominion Special Service. HASTINGS, February 22. At, a slow stile easier prices were tiie main feature in the store sheep market at Stortl'ord Lodge today. Lamb prices were down by 2/- to 2/6, and wethers by 1/6 to on last week. The decline in prices approximates that experienced at Waipukurau yesterday, and in must eases vendors appeared to meet the market, pausings being not unusually numerous. Later in the day prices improved slightly, and 17/- was paid for a line of fat and forward black I need lambs, a of well-grown t.wo-tooth,s realized 25/10, and a pell of 117 Kai.waka district wether.s, well grown and in forward condition, realized 15/9. Generally. however, prices were well below these figures. Realizations for the sheep section are as follows*: Line of 180 woolly wether lambs, dipped, fairly grown, 9,-; 129 wether lanrbs. evenly grown, fresh coll; dition. made 9/4; an Eskdale draft ot 177 woolly wether lambs, well grown, in fresh condition. 11/6; Putorino woolly wether lambs, medium to well grown good order. 14/6; a Te Pahue line of 87 wether lainbs. snittll grown, 6/-I : a draL of wether lambs. medium-grown, weilframetl, 15/1; Down cross lambs. 6/9 '.o 11/1, nceorditrg to condition; mediunigrown woolly ewe lambs, passed at 13/1 : two-tooth ewes showing quality aool, solidly-grown, 25/10, in forward store condition 20/3, in average store order 14/10 to 1-1/-; four-tooth ewes, small to medium. 1-1/-; a line of, 288 Mangatapira four-tooth half-bred ewes, medium order, passed at 11/-. reserve being 14/-; four and five-year ewes, well-mouthed and iu average store order, 11/3 down to 7/-, according to quality. Little change was s'hown on last week's iat sheep market, the drop in price experienced yesterday at Waipukurau not being sustained. Some splendid quality two-tooths aim lambs were penned, and were readily sought after by butchers. Extra prune heavy Down cross lambs brought 25/-, good medium pens 22/-; smaller lambs, just weaned, in good order, averaging close on 301 b.. 18/-; extra prime Down cross two-tooth wethers, 18/9 to 19/3; similar quality Romney cross wethers, 19/3, with light pens selling to 18/-; prime ewes, from 10/- to 11/6, second quality pens making to 9/-. The fat cattle market was steady, the quality being in very short supply, with no prime ox beef on offer. The tops of the heifer pens provided some splendid quality, which sold at £B/15/-, averaging 27/- a 1601 b. The cow pens were, very mixed, and the market was inclined to be erratic for . several pens of unfinished cows, in fair s'tore order only, and far from killable. Young cows showing finish made good selling, the best being an entry on account of 11. Maulder, M aihau, which made 24/- a 1001 b. Other good pens realized 23/- a 1001 b. Some of the best buying was for Hereford cows in good order for nn average of from 21/6 to 22/- a 1001 b. Inferior quality unfinished sorts suitable as boners made IS/- a 1001 b. No interest was shown m the store cattle section, practically everything being passed.

Burnside

By Telegraph—Press Associatiou. DUNEDIN. February 22. Light to medium-weight bullocks preponderated in an entry of 360 head of fat cattle at the Burnside stock sale today. With a full yarding of cows and heifers, prices for the best prime heavy sorts were easier by £1 a head from the start of the sale, and other sorts went down by 30/- a head as the sale progressed. Extra prime heavy bullocks made to £lB/2/6. prime heavy £l4/“/6 to £l5/12/6, prime £l2/i/(> to £l4/2/6, medium and light £B/2/6 co £lO/17/6; extra prime heavy cows and heifers made to £ll/2/6, prime £7/7/6. to £B/12/6 inediiiin £4/17/6 to £b/l</6, and light and unfinished from £3/12/6. More than 2240 bead of fat sheep were offered, a sprikling only of wethers being'included. In a large yarding of ewes prime butchers’ sheep were firm, but all other sorts depreciated. Prime heavy wethers made to 23/9. medium 17/- to 19/-, light and unfinished 14/9 to 16/6; extra prime heavy ewes made to 17/3,

medium 10/- t# 12/-, light from 5/- to 9/-. A good yarding of 1250 fat lambs, of better quality than that seen recently, was offered. All good quality sorts maintained scheduled rates, but light and unfinished descriptions eased in sympathy with the reduced export price. Extra prime lambs made to 27/3, prime 23/- to 25/-, medium 19/- to 22/6, and light and Unfinished 16/- to 18/6. The sale of fat pigs was not a keen one, and values were, down by .5/- to 7/a head. Exceptional baconers brought to 90/-, and others from 65/- upward.