DOMINION MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1939, Page 16

DOMINION MARKETS

BRISK ADDINGTON SALE

Competition was steady for an average yarding of good quality cattle at th: Westfield stock sale yesterday. Late rates were fully maintained. A good average yarding of cows, in which small sorts prevailed, sold to a good demand at late rates. A full entry of pigs met with . a keen ' sale. Porker values improved. Bidding, generally, was not so keen ior ewes and wethers in an average sheep entry. Values, particularly for ewes, were easier. There was a keen sale for a smaller yarding of spring lambs, values improving on late rates. The offering of fat cattle forward at the Burnside sale included a few trucks of special prime ox. The sale opened quietly, with no outside competition, and prices for all heavy grades, were at par to £1 a head down on last week. In the case of medium sorts, the easing was £1 10s.. In a large yarding of stores; a feature of the sale was a well-grown line from Hawea Flat, which brought to £13 13s for steers and to £9 12s 6d for heifers. Good cows were in keen demand, with old and inferior sorts not -vyanted. Vealers were in short supply arid sold keenly. Few dairy cows were forward, but those, that were sold well, in the case of young sorts at up to £11. The offering of fat sheep included a sprinkling of prime wethers, among a large number of heavy ewes. Prices were j keen from the start and were on the; average up.by 3s a head. Fat lamb J prices were mainly firm on late rates.! The Associated Auctioneers report! that a yarding of 500 head of station cattle, a small.yarding of sheep, and a good yarding, of pigs, were submitted | at this week's Pahiatua sale. The attendance of buyers was good. '. Most 1 of the cattle yarded were yearling steers, for which there was a satisfactory inquiry. Two-year, steers arid small three-year .cattle were slightly easier, the.quality not being up to that! of the fair held towards the end of September. Yearling cattle showed an improvement!. XX,.. . . -. . : Quotations:— Cattle.—P.A. bullocks, in good order, £10; fat*bullocks; requiring finish, £10 15s to £10.17s 6d; . three-year steers; £8, smaller sorts £6 18s; T.A: steers,, good, £4 "to- £&'4s;'.Hereford- yearling steers,' £'3 7s. 6d tb;£4;. two-year steers, P.A: £5-"to1 £6; two-year"P.A. heifers, £3 17s ' Ito £4;lls; P.A. heifers, with calves at foot, £5; fat heifers, station sorts, £10 to £11 10s; ex dairy; £6 to £7- ss. Sheep.-^-M;A. ewes with, lambs, 16s, all counted; • four-tooth wethers, iri fair condition,. 18s 3d; wether hoggets, 20s;; ewe hoggets, medium, 23s 9d. Pigs.—Weaners,' good, 21s to 265.