PLENTY OF SHEEP AT ADDINGTON

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3280, 25 February 1926, Page 9

PLENTY OF SHEEP AT ADDINGTON

Lambs Backward, Ewes Forward

CATTLE SCARCE, AND QUALITY IS POOR

[Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 24. At Addington market, well over 26,000 store sheep were penned to-day. The majority of the lambs were mostly backward in condition, eweh were forward from the North Island, Marlborough and West Coast except for rape sorts. Lambs were easier and Owes showed a drop of from 2S to 4s a head. Vendors generally were disposed to meet the market and few fines were passed. ■" Lambs.

Good rape lambs;, 19s to 2ls; good 1 bred ewo lambs 225; medium lambs 16/6 to 18/6; small inferior*lambs 12/6 to 15/9; cull lambs 8/6 tol2s; 12/6 to 15/9; cull lambs 8/6 to 12s; 21s; good 2-tooth Romney cross ewes 30s; good 4 and 6-tooth Romney cross ewes 32/6; 4, 6 and 8-tooth Romney cross ewes 24/6”to 25/9; threequaiter-bred ewes 25s to 28s; sound riioulhed crossbred ewes, low condition 21s to 245; falling mouthed owes 14/6 to 18/6J good half-bred &. M. ewes 28/9 to 32/6; 2-toothed, halfbred ewes 80s to 325; 4 and 6-toothed, half-bred wethers 23/9 to 25/6; fat lambs, smalled entry, totalling 32s a head. . The lower schedule rates were fully maintained.

Extra heavy lamb to 80/1; heavy prime 26/6 to 295; medium weight prime 25s to 27/6; light Inferior 23s to 255; store lambs 20s to 225. Eat Sheep. > For fat sheep there was a heavy yarding of bullc 'ewes, which wet With a free sale at schedule rates with dragging demand over thp final Extra prlpie wethers to '33/10; prime wethers 38/9 to Sis; 'medium wethers 25/9 to 38/9; light wethers 23/9 to 25/6; extra prime ewes 25/6 to 27/7; .prime ewes 22/3 to 24/6; medium weight ewes TO/6 to 225; light ewes 16s to 18/6; old ewes 13/6 to 15/6. Cattle. There was a small entry of fat cattle comprising 420 head. The quality was very poor consisting mostly of cows. Good steers and heifers maintained late values, but the cow element was much weaker.

Best beef made from'34s-to 39s;por lOOlbs; secondary 29s to SSp, rough 22/6 to 28/6: extra heavy weight steers to 19/17/6; heavy,steers 14/15/ to 16/15/0; prime medium i weight steers 12/10/0; to 14/10/0; medium quality steers 10/0/0, to IS/SO/0; light steers. 7/0/oto 9/10/0; extra prime heifers 11/0/0; to 15/12/8; prime heifers 7/15/0 to 10/5/0; ordinary heifers 5/15/0; to 7/10/0; light heifers 4/5/0; to 5/10/; extra prime cows to 12/17/6; prime cows 7/5/0 to 9/10/0; medium cows 4/10; to 7/0/0; light cows 3/5/0; to 4/7/8; Yealers best calves 30s to 60s, runners 55s to 655.

Store cattle; an array of oddments, one small line df steers sold atß/17/6; Dairy cattle best springing cows 11/0/0; to 18/10/0; medium to good 5/15/0; to O/10/OT others 30s to 4/0/0 extra good springing heifers 12/0/0; to 16/0/0; good 7/0/0: to 8/10/0; others 3/0/0;'to 6/10/0;., Pigs.

Fat pigs were in short supply, owing to the railway washout at Otlra holding up several West Coast trucks. Porkers were about the same hut baconers improved: Choppers. 3/0/0; to 7/8/0; boners 8/15/0; to 6/6/0; (average price per lb 68 to 7i); porkers 4,8 sto 70s (everage price per lb 7d to 8d). Store pigs, good sorts sold well but others draggingly—weaners 12s to 255; slips 276 to 345; stores 85s to 52/6. JOHNSONVILLE SALE, Messrs Abraham and Williams Ltd., and Wright Stephenson and Co. Ltd., report on their Johnsonvllle Sale held yesterday. ' t A medium yarding of good quality stock came forward, including a very prime assortment of beef, weight and quality being well represented. Some very nice black-faced wethers were penned and sold well. Good lambs and ewes made up to last week’s quotations. The few vealers yarded sold freely. Wo quote:— Ox, £l3 15/-, £1.3 17/6, £l4, £l4 2/0. £l4 ,10/-, £l4 17/6 to £ls 10/-; light, £11; cows, light £4 10/-; vealers, 25/30/-, 32/6, £2, £2 5/- to £2 10/-; b.f. wethers, 31/6; others, 28/-, 29/6, 30/-, 30/1 to 30/6; ewes, 20/6, 21/3 to 24/6; lambs, 22/3, 24/6, 25/-, 25/9 to 28/9;.