ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 4, 6 January 1910, Page 5

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET

[press association.]

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 5. At the Addington stock sale to-day there were fair entries of stock and a good attendance of buyers. Store sheep showed little improvement, fat lambs sold at 3d. to Is per head better, and fat sheep were firmer by Is per head. Fat cattle sold at about last week's rates, and; pigs, except for an improved demand for fats in the early part of the sale, met with a slow sale.

There was a moderate yarding of store sheep,- and it was made up chiefly of two, four, and six-tooth wethers, with a few pens of aged ewes with lambs at foot. For the better class of wethers there was an improved demand at slightly higher prices, and medium and inferior wethers sold at late rates. Forward fourtooth wethers made 12s to 12s sd, medium two-tooth wethers 9s 6d to 10s 6d, and small and low conditioned 8s lid to 9s 3d/ The better sorts of ewes and lambs made 6s 2d to 6s lOd, and inferior 5s to 6s Id, all counted. Some small lots of two and four-tooth ewes were passed at 12s 6d to 13s. A pen of down cross rape lambs sold at 8s 2d. • A go, qd many dines of laitobsr •were-of.light;-and-ijaf6ribr rqiaality,-'anaf could have'.'done-."-with; another three weeks ■■ or month, on feed. There was a good demand for ekport, an outside speculator taking a' number of the highest-priced lambs. Average weight figures showed a rise of about 3d per head on last week; heavy weights and tegs, m which exporters came into competition with butchers, advanced tully Is per head; and light and in- ! • enor lambs sold betteY by 6d to Is P®r head in-some cases. There were 2/04 lambs taken for export at 11s to 13s 9d for best, and 7s 8d to TOs 6d tor lighter; 735 were bought by! butchers at prices ranging from 8s 7d to Ids 6d. I

There was a fair yarding of fat sheep and both wethers and ewes showed, an improvement on last week's rates, some business being done in wethers for export. The rise in values was equal to about Is per head and in some cases weiSiers showed an advance of Is to 2s per head. The range of prices was: Prime wethers 14s to 16s lOd, -lighter 12s to 13s 6d • ?A' in xc eYf s 12s 6d to 15s W > medium los to 12s, aged and ii^ht 7s 3d to Vs tid; merino wethers, 10s 6d. There were only 168 head of fat cattle, of average nualitv, penned. There was again a weak demand, and sales were difficult to effect, no chancre m prices being noted. The bulk* of the yarding was supplied by dealers §l e<? rs adß f 6 15s t0 £10'> h^fers io to.£b; and cows £4 17s 6d to £6 l's- fed; equal to 19s 6d to 21s 6d for ?i" inf ■' II s 6 P d to 19s for medium, and 1/s -Q f } } as for-cow and inferior beef

There was a small entry of veal calves ana they sold at 4s 6d to 50s according to size and quality. A medium entry of store cattle met with a slack demand,, yearlings making 31s; 15 to 18-months £2 5s to £3 os, two-year heifers £3 7s to £3 10s, ty.o anda-Jialr year steers £5 (passed) three-yeav. steers £6 oh to £6 9s xhres-year heifers £4 15s. cows with calves £6 Bs, cows £3 14s '6d, and dry cows 3os to £3 Bs. J

I?airy cows made £3 10s t-o £8 10s. Ihe entry of fat pigs.\yas, a small one, -and at. the opening of ' they sale, prices were" better by1 2s to 3s per lead, but later on values receded to last week's level. Stores were dull hpirS >° yrSmfn and niedi«m sorts faemg ; oftered. Large baconers made \°,l> ? nd Ijghter 35s to 39s— equal to 3*d to 4|d per lb; porkers W ?i' S for layg6' a«tV2ss to 30s for smaller-equal to Ud to 43a per 4s;tnT£ llm ?f ore8-SO*-to 245, smaller *s to 18s; andiweaneis 8s 6d-to 12s