LIVESTOCK MAMETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 5

LIVESTOCK MAMETS.

JQHNSONVILLE SALE, A READY MARKET. A small yarding of bullocks, a large yarding of cows and lieifers, and a small yarding of sheep came forward at Jolinsonville yesterday. The bullocks yarded were chiefly good medium to heavyweight cattle, which met with a good sale with prices showing a firming tendency. Cows arid heifers were all of good quality and sold well, prices being firmer by'los a head. A few vealet’s came forward, these meeting with a ready sale. The wethers yarded were chiefly heavyweight sheep with a few pens of lighter sorts. All classes sold well at late, rates. The yarding of ewes was of indifferent quality, only one or two pens of good heavyweight sheep being penned. All classes sold well, prices being firmer by Is a head. There were a few pens of hoggets which sold well. Quotations were:— Cattle.—Prime extra heavy bullocks, £ls 7s fid to £ls 17s 6d; prime heavy, £l4 os to £l4 10s; heavy, £l3 to £l4; light and unfinished, £lO 2s 6d to £11; extra prime heavy cows and heifers, £9 15s to £lO 17s; prime heavy cow's and heifers, £9 to £9 12s 6d ; cows and heifers, £6 15s to £7 10s; runners, £3 to £4 7s 6d; vealers, 32s 6d to £2 10s ; small calves, 13s to 14s. Sheep.—Prime extra heavy wethers. 30s to 31s 7d ; prime heavy, 28s 3d to 28s 9d ; medium, 26s to 26s 9d; prime extra heavy owes. 22s to 24s 6d; prime heavy 20s 3d to 21s 3d : medium, 16s to 19s 3d; heavy hoggets, 20s to 22s ; light, ISs to 195.. LEVIN MARKET. LEVIN, Aug. 24. Full yardings of stock in all sections were offered at the weekly sale. The sale was a good one, though prices throughout showed a slight e.asing tendency, particularly in the fat cattle section. There was an entry of highclass dairy stock which brought prices showing an advance on late market rates. Pigs.—Light porkers, 30s to £2; medium. £2 10s to £2 17s Gd ; heavy, £3 to £3 11s; slips. 20s 6d to 235; stores 25s to 30s. Sheep: Eat’ew'es, 17s 6d to 19s 4d ; fat hoggets, 21s to 22s 9d; prime, 25s to 27s 6d; store hoggets, 14s 9d to 17s 6d; ewe hoggets 255. Light fat cows, £4 12s 6d to £5 10s; medium, £6 to £7; heavy, £7 os to £7 17s; extra, prime, £8 to £9; vealers, 3oa to £3; heavier, £3 10s to £3 15s; runners, £4 5s to £6; store cows, 30s to £3. Dairy stock; Springing heifers, £7 to £8 15s; high-grade heifers, close to profit, £9 to £l2. ADDINGTON QQUOTATIONS. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 24. Pennings were back to normal at todav’s Addington weekly fat stock market, and as a result there was a welcome recovery in values, noticeably fat'cattle. Eat sheep were in demand and prices remained firm for best ewes and wethers throughout, and on an average were about a shilling a bead dearer than last week. Quotations We Sheep.—Extra prime wethers, to 33s 7d; prime, 325; good, 26s to 295; ordinary, 22s to 255; light, 21s 6d; best ewes, 20s 6d to 245; tops, 27s id; good, 16s 6d to 19s; ordinary, 12s 0d to 16s ; light, down to 12s. There was a better tone in the demand for store ewes and lambs, and one line sold at 13s Id; rising two-tooth ewes, 20s Id, sound-mouthed ewes, 19 s 7d; old sheep, down to 6s 9d. lhere was a slack inquiry for wethers. An entry of 375 fat cattle was the smallest for some considerable time. There was an average advance ot 2os for beef on last week, and most good beef made from 40s to 42s 6d a 1001 b, medium, 36s to 38s 6d. Other realisations were: Extra prime sters, to £l9 17s 6d; prime, £l7 10s; medium, £ls 15s; ordinary, £l3 ss; light, down to £lO 10s; extra prime heifers, to £lo 7s 6d; prime, £l2 ss; medium, £lO 10s- light, down to £8; extra good COWS, £l4 2s 6d; prime, £ll Ids; medium, £9; light, £7. „ Choppers, £2 12s 6d to £6 6s; porkers, 35s Gd to £3 6s Gd, with average price a lb 7Jd to 8d; baconers, £3 °l2s 6d to £5 9s 6d; average price a lb, 7d to 7|d. STORTFORD LODGE. HASTINGS, Aug. 24. An unusually small yarding of fat cattle was yarded at Stortford Lodge live stock sale to-day, and met a rise of more than £3 a head over last week’s - values. Butchers had little choice, and were compelled to compete for whatever was offered. Best cow beef made to 35s 1001 b; poorer sorts 8s Ox beef was in short supply, and owing to that fact bullocks which were offered first before the shortness of the yarding was realised, did not 6hare in the higher prices to the same extent as lines offered later m the sale. The top price for cows was £l2 los, which was obtained for a draft of prime animals. A brighter tone was also shown in the fat sheep sale, when the entry totalled more than a thousand, including some extra prime solt , s - Be ewes made to 22s 9d; best wethers, to 275. Store sheep also shared = n , vanced prices with hoggets makin o 1 ““d more than Waipukurau yesterday. The market was topped for the season by a line o well-woolled wether hoggets sold at 23s 9d. ‘WESTFIELD VALUES. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. 24. Improved quality beet realised farm stock sale to-day, although the yardto slightly firmer rates at \\ estheiq ing was slightly smaller than last week's. Several lines of extra choice cattle were offered, and some show steers made the extreme bid ot £rt 12s 6d, which has not been surpassed here for some yeahs. Well-finished <x,ws and heifers from the same dealer sold to £l3 10s, which was also the best price in this section for a long time Aveno-p values were fully firm, fhoice°ox beef being 40s a. 1001 b, choice and prime 36s to 395, secondary and unfinished 30s to 365; prime cow and eiPer beef 33s to 395; plain and . unfinished 25s to 325; extra heavy prime steers £ls 10s to £l7 12s 6d heayy £l4 to £l6, medium £l2 15s to £l4 6d light £lO to £l2 los, unfinishno +o b £]o 15s; extra heavy prime cows and heifers £ll to £l3 £c to fill 10s. medium £3 to £.) 15s, light £6 to £8 15s, unfinished-£4 rto £ cSers entered the sheep market to huv up most of the unfinished . lines, end their operations preserved a better fa M a nee of prices . .Wethers were verv- firm find- ewes -advanced no to + 3s a head. Before the sale closed extra i wethers made 3os to 3is fimshcKl IC* to eh jjj, STK S metom 18s to 21s W, light

16s 6d io 18s 6d, smaller and unfinished 7s Cd to 16s. A good selection •ol hoggets sold steadily, maintaining late rates, from 8s to 295. The first spring lambs offered this season made 25s each. Plain calves predominated in an average supply for which a steady demand was created, with firm bidding. Prices were : liunners £4 to £ll, for extra prime shorthorn steers; heavy vealers £5 5s to £6 16s, medium £4 Ss to £5 6s, light £3 12s to £4 ss, smaller £2 11s to £3 10s, small and unfinished £1 5s to £2 10s; bobby calves 3s to 20s.

j Choppers l bacoiiers £4 os to £4 15s, medium £3 118 sto £4 4s, light £3 10s to £3 16s; ‘ heavy porkers £3 3s to £3 11s, medium £2 6s to £3 2s, light £2 to £2 ss, | smaller and unfinished £1 5s to £1 19s; stores £1 6s to £2 4s; slips £1 3s to £1 ' 14s; weaners 15s to 265; baconers averaged 6}d to 7d a lb, porkers 7id to 7|d. BURNSIDE. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN, Aug. 24. The entry of fat cattle for Burnside stock sale was larger than in recent weeks, 338 head coming forward. Quality, however, was not up to that of yardings of the past few weeks. Cattle.- —Extra prime heavy bullocks to £23 17s 6d, prime £l7 to £lB 7s 6d, medium £l2 2s 6d to £l4 17s 6d, light down to £8 17s 6d; extra prime cows and heifers to £ls 2s 6d, prime £ll 2s 6d to £l2 12s 6d, medium £9 to £lO 2s 6d. Extra prime ox beef was worth £2 3s a 1001 b, prime £2 2s; extra prime cow and heifer beef £2 Is and poorer quality £1 12s. A few good steers in the store cattle pens brought to £ll. The entry of fat sheep numbered 1720. including about 100 hoggets. Best butcher’s sheep were firm on late rates, but others were easier by about 2s a head. Prices were : Extra prime heavy wethers made to £1 19s 6d, prime £1 11s 6d to £1 15s, medium £1 4s 9d to £1 7s, light, from £1 Is; extra prime heavy young ewes to £1 10s, prime £1 2s to £1 5s 3d, medium 16s 6d to 18s 9d, light down to 12a 6d. Vealers again were in short supply, the best sorts making to £5 4s. Porkers brought from £2 15s to £3 10s with baconers worth £4 16s to £5 16s.’