CATTLE AND SHEEP MAINTAIN VALUES

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3614, 15 September 1927, Page 7

CATTLE AND SHEEP MAINTAIN VALUES

Entries on Light Side At Addington Market

SALE' SATISFACTORY FOF

VENDORS

(Per Press Association). CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night.

Entries were on the light side at to-day’s Addington market, and the sale was a very satisfactory one to vendors. Fat cattle sold better. Fat sheep maintained their recent values, and 1 store sheep also met with a firm de.imand, Spring lambs, of winch there were 38, averaged from 32/- to 40/1, the bulk bringing over 35/-. Store sheep: The best of the ewest wethers and hoggets sold well, though backward sorts hardly made the same prices as last week. Ewes awl lambs met with a good sale. Aged ' ewes 15/- to 17/6; falling-mouthed halfbred ewes 28/3; aged ewes and lambs 13/6 to 18/- (all counted); low-conditioned, sound-mouthed ewes 23/3; two and four-toomcd iialfbred wethers 31/- to 33/3; four and sixtoothed halfbred wethers 30/- t« 33/-; inferior four and six-toothed '' halfbred wethers 26/9 to 28/6; crossbred wether hoggets .19/10 to 20/10: halfbred wether hoggets 19/10 to 20/10; crossbred ewe hoggets 25/4 to 26/4. Fat sheep: Outside sheep included several Southland lines, and a good proportion from South Canterbury. These offerings topped the market. The sale varied by 2/- to 2/6 a head., but the market was as good as last week’s- • Extra prime wethers 49/’ to 53/1; prime wethers 43/- to medium wethers 36/- to 42/-; light wethers 33/- to 35/6; extra print*' ewes 39/- to 45/10; prime ewes 34/6 to 38/-; medium ewes 29/- to 34/-: light ewes 25/6 to 28/6; prime hoggets 34/- to 44/10; medium hoggets 29/- to" 3’3/-.‘ , . Pat cattle: A small entry of 436 head. Values were up on last week by over 20/- a head, the earlier part of the sale, but lost this advance in the later stages. Choicest beef made in a few cases 50/- per lOOlbs., medium-weight prime 45/-. to 48/-;: . medium quality 42/-to 44/6; heavy beef 38/- to 42/-; ordinary cow beefs 37/- to' 40/-; inferior 30/. to 35/-. A truck of Southland bullocks averaged £2l li/D; a Manawatu line of 42 steers £18" 1/ a Wanganui lino of 40 to £lO 0/2; a South Otago draft of 25 cows and’heifers 1 £3,4 / 5/-; Extra ,• heavy prime bullocks sold at £2l 17/6; prime heavy steers £l7 10/- M £2O; ’medium-weight steers £ls to £l7; light steers £ll 1/- to £l4 10/-; extra prime heifers to £lB 3/6; prime heifers £l3' 10/- to £ls 10/-; medium heifers ill to £l3; light heifers £8 to £lO 10/-; extra prime cows to ill' 1/6;-prime cows £l3 5/-.to £ls 5/-' medium cows £lO 10/- to £l3: light cows £9 to £lO 5/-; aged cows £7 t« i S 15/-, ■ Vealers: Good calv.es. sold well. Twelve to .18-months to £8 2/C; vealers £3 to £6 10/-; others 10/- to 45/-

Store cattle: Mostly nondescript sbrts were penned. Two .pens of three-year station steers made £ll 3/6; two to three-year steers £6 15/to £S; two-year heifers to £S 15/-. . Dairy cows: A slack sale, values being down by up to 40/- a head. Tlic best received to fourth calves £6 .to £S; others £2 10/- to £5 15/-; heifers £3 to £7.

Fat pigs: Porkers made .a small entry and sold at an advance mostly. Other baconers were too heavy for the trade and they sold at easier values. Choppers £3 to £5 .13/5; light baconers £3 to £3 . 7/-; heavy baconers £3 15/- to £4 4/6 (average price per lb ihd to 65c1); porkers 43/- to 53/-;. heavy porkers 57/- to 62/- (average price per lb 7id to 9d.) Store pigs: A very heavy entry and a dragging sale, with a pronounced drop at the concluding stage. Weaners 15/- to 42/-; large stores 34/- to 42/-; sows in pig, to £4 15/-.