ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 99, 23 October 1913, Page 2

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET

(BY TELEGRAPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 22nd October. At the Addington live etock market today thero wae an average yarding of stock and a fair attendance. Fat cattle showed no ohange in price. Store Bhoep wore firmly foeld, and several lots were passed. Fat lambs were eaaier in coneoquenee of tho larger yarding. The fat sheep eale ' opened well, but the sale was irregular. I Fat pigs showed a decline in prices. Store Sheep.— Two and four-tooth shorn wethorJ, 14s od j shorn wether hoggets, Us 3d to 12&; shorn ewe hoggets, 14s; woolly owe hoggets, 21s 3d (passed) ; woolly wether hoggets (medium), 10s 10d to 16b sd ; exceptionally good mixed woolly hoggets, 20s ; sound-mouth woolly ewes with good lamß, 13b Od (all counted) ; aged owon in the wool, with lambs, 12s 4d (all counted) ; aged cull ewes (empty), 7s 9d. Fat Lambs.— Bert lambs, 18e to 21s 6d; other*, 16e to 17s 6d. Fat sheep — Extra prime woolly wethers, to 355 ; prime, 25s 6d to 29s 9d ; others, 22s ,to 255 ; prime shorn wethers, 19e 6d to 22s 9d; others, 16s 3d to 19b j woolly ewes, 21» lOd to 29b 6d, shorn ewes, 16s 3d to ?,2s 6d; woolly hoggets, 23b; woolly morino wethers, 21s 4d to 23b Yd. Fat Oattle.—Steers, £9 to £12 ; extra, to £19 Se; heifers £6 5p to £9 se ; oows, £5 10b to £9; extra to £12 10s. Store Cattle Yearlings, £1 13s 6d: 15 to 18-months Borts,, £2 4» to £3 9s 6a ; 2-year steers, £4 17b 6dj 2-year heifers, £4 to £'4 4s 6d; 3« year heifere, £5 10s; 3-yeai cows, £1 19s to . £5 ss. Dairy cows m&do £3 to £10 10b. Fat Pigs.— Choppers, .£3 to £4 15s; heavy baconers, £3 5e to £3 13s; extra., to £4; others, £2 12a to £3. Those prices wore equivalent to s id to 5Jd against 6d to 6J_d a week earlier. Heavy porkers, £2 5« to £2 9s; lighter, £1 18s to £2 2s. Store pige — Large stores, 38s to 455; medium, 28e to 37b; ema.ll sorts, 18i to 27e. Weaners wadu from 10k 6d for small sorte to 18s 6d for very good pige.