ADDINGTON STOCK REPORT.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 June 1910, Page 3

ADDINGTON STOCK REPORT.

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OHR-ISTCIiritCH, Juno 8

At AddinLgtnn yards the attendance was well up to the average and there was a good entry of all classes of .stock. The penning of store sheep w;is about itlte average. There was a decrease in the number of fat lambs entered, but fat .sheep were in good supply. The yarding of cattle and pigs was about the same as at the last low sales. Sheep went well or the wholy. The yarding of store sheep, which consisted principally of wethers and lambs with a few pens of aged ewes, was about the same as regards numbers as laslt week. The demand was keen, wethers especially being -enc|uirod for at a slight advance of late rates, and lambs inet with a ready sale at prices about on a par with late nates. The demand for ewes was slack and there were a good many passing in this class of stores. Forward wethers made 13s 6d to lis 8(1, <•; rs lis 9d to 12s Gd. good lambs P o 10s, small and medium 6s to Bs, all two and four-tooth ewes were .is.sed at lis lOd, and broken nioutned owes at 7s. The yarding of fat lambs totalled 583-1, being between eighit and nine 'hundred less than last" sale. The markeit was very firm and exporters were operating freely, doing most ol the buying, only a few lots going to local buyers. 'Hie general quality of the lambs penned wa.s distinctly above that general at the last sale, and this fact discounts to it certain extent the general rises in prices that were noted. Even taking this into consideraitiion, however, there was a practical advance in values per pound of quite an eighth of a penny and the market exhibited a very confined tone, all the lots being disposed of. Ordinary freezing weights made from 13s (id ito l(is, togs to 19s 3d, and light and unfinished sorts from lis 4d to 13 s. The fiat sheep yarding was below recent markets, but the <|i;..ilit.y was mii -h better. I here was keen demand and ewe.", advanced a shilling a iliead ail 1 '! wet'-'ers sixpence. The range of ."rices was; e i\a prime .wethers to 21s (id, prim" 17s to 90s (id. medium 1-ls (>d to 16k ()'l, others lRq Gd to l is, prime ewes 16s to 18s Bd. m»diuni 13s 6d to 1.5s Gd. others 10s 3d to 13s, merino ewes 9s 9:1 to 15s fid. The yarding of fj.it- cat'le totalled 317 head, the bulk of which were good useful verts. There was it good demand for all offering and the prices gained at the previous week's Hale were fully mainitainod. The average lines of steer beef fetched 18s to 235, and extra to 25s per IOOIbs. Steers brought £6 10s to CIO; extra, to £13 10s, heifers £4 10s to £8, cows £5 5s to £8, extra £9. The yarding of fat calves was .about the average, the quality being as usual even. Prices ranged i' f0« Gd to £2 10s. Fn store calttle the entry was very small and of poor (/ualitv. the demand being very weak. Fifteen to eighteeni months sorts made £1 18s, 2-year-old heifers £2 15.s to £2 17s, 3-vcar-old steers £5 2s 6d, dry coiws £3 10s to £4, dairy cows from £3 10s to £9 17s Gd. There was a full yarding of fta T>'gs, but the demand was very weak. Choppers made .to £3 15s, heavy ibaconers 45s to 525. lighter 38s bo 4wS, equal to 4(1 per lb. Henvy porkers fetched 35s to 375, smaller sorts 2r m, to 3,S ' e(,Unl to 4 * (l P or N>There was a small .warding of | stC'l-e pigs. 110 large animals being [ rv^ nncd. Prices ranged from 9s to 16s, wean era made from fis to Bs.