FAT STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19386, 22 July 1926, Page 7

FAT STOCK MARKET.

RATES AT WESTFIELD SALE.! LARGE YARDING OF BEEF. LITTLE CHANGE IN VALUES. Prices for beef at thfe Weslfield fat stock sale yesterday were maintained at about last week's level. Best grade cattle sold freely at late rates, but unfinished lines were slightly easier. There was an average yarding of sheep and recent values were maintained. There was a fairly good offering of lambs and although prices did not range so widely as at last sale, values according to size and quality were maintained. Prices for calves were about equal to late rates. There was again a good demand for pigs, recent values being well maintained. The following table gives the prices realised for fat stock this week and last week:— This Week. Last Week. REEF (per 1001b.) Extra choice ox . 34/- 34/Choice and prime ox . . ... 30/- to 32/- 30/- to 33/Clioico and prime cow & heifer . 20/- to 29/- 20/- to 29/Boner and rough 15/- to 18/- 12/- to 19/SHEEP (per head) — Prime wethers . 27/6 to 34/6 27/6 to 25/3 Unfin. wethers . 21/6 to 27/- 22/6 to 27/3 Prime ewes .. IS/- to 25/6 17/6 to 25/6 Unfinished ewes 12/- to 18/- 12/- to 17/Prime lambs . . 17/6 to 25/- 17/- to 36/6 Unfinished lambs 12/-to 16/- 12/6 to 16/CALVES (per head) — Runners . . . 70/- to 107/6 20/- to 136/Vealers .. .. 18/- to 97/6 30/-to 3SjPIGS (per head)— Baconers .. SO/- to 115/- £7/-to 107/Porkers . .. 50/- to S7/6 38/- to 93/Weanera . . . 10/- to 25/- 10/- to 21/Slips . . . . 27/6 to 39/- 30/- to 38/LONDON MARKET VALUES. Latest quotations for New Zealand meat on the London market are as follow: Sheep.—Canterbury and Southland, 6td per lb.; North Island, 6 l-Bd. Lambs.—Canterbury, light, 9 l-8d per lb.; medium, Bjd; heavy, B§d; seconds, Bgd; North Island, first and seconds, Bjjd. Beef.—Not quoted. Last week's quotations were: Ox fores, 4d per lb.; hinds, ssd.

LOAN AND MERCANTILE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency reportsßeef was penned in extra large numbers, choice bsef selling at fully late Quotations, while plain and unfinished were easier. Extra 'choico ox sold to 3*ls per 1001b.; choice and prime, 30s to 325; ordinary and plain, 26s to 28s; prime young cow and heifer beef, 26s to 295; ordinary cow beef, 20s to 255; rough beef, 15s to 18s; heavy prime steers, £l3 to £l4 ss; lighter prime, £ll 15s to £l3; light prime, £9 15a to £ll 15s; unfinished and small, £7 to £9 ss; extra, heavy prime young cows and heifers, £9 to'£lo ss; heavy prime, £8 to £8 17s 6d llghtei cows, £5 to £6 10s; bulls, 30s to £4 Sheep were yarded in average numbers, selling firmly at late quotations. Hoavy prime wethers made 32s to 345; medium prime, 30s Gd to 31s 6d; light prime, 27s 6d to 30s u small and unfinished, 24s to 275; heavy prime ewes, 23s to 245; medium prime, £1 1b to 22s Gd; light prime, 18s to £1 0s 6d; inferiorly fatted, 12s to 17. Lambs were penned in small numbers and sold at Into rates. Heavy prime made 20s to 255; medium prime, £1 Is to; 235; light prime, 18s to 20s. Pigs penned in average numbers. Choppers sold at £3 3s to £4 17s Gd ; heavy and medium baconers, £5 to £5 15s; light baconers and heavy porkers, £4 10s to £o: medium porkers and light porkers, £3 15s to £4 7s 6d, small and unfinished, £2 15s to £3 10s. Large stores made £2 2s to £2 10s; slips, £1 7s Gd to £1 9s; weaners, 10s to £1 Gs. Calves were penned in large numbers and best qualitv sold well up to late rates, inferior quality being easier Runners made £3 103 to £5 7s Gd; heavy vealers, £4 to £4 17s Gd; medium, £3 7a 6d to £3 17s 6d; light: £2 18s to £3 Gs; smaller, £2 2s to £2 173. small srtd fresh dropped, 3s to £2; rough calves, 15s to 31s.

D ALGETY AND COMPANY. Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report:— Beef.—There wag an average yarding, selling at last week's prices. Three trucks of medium-weight steers, on account of Mr. J. H. Earle, Te Awamutu, sold at £l2 5s to £l3 10s, and averaged £l3 2s 6d. A small line of light-weight Hereford heifers, on account, of the "Waipa Estate, made £8 2s 6d. Wo Quote: Extra choice and prime ox, £3 per 1001 L; choice and prime, 31a to 33a; ordinary and plain, ±1 5s to £1 10a: prime young cow and heifer beef, £1 5i to £1 9s; ordinary, £1 to £1 4s; rough, 12s to 18s. Sheep: An average yarding, prima wethers being slightly firmer, but unfinished wethers and ewes were unchanged. We topped the market with a pen of prime heavy wethers, on account of Mr, R. Hull, at 34s 6d. Heavj primo wethers made 34s 6d; medium prime, 29a Gd to 32s Gd; small and unfinished, 21s 6d to 24s Gd: best heavy prime ewes, 25s Gd, medium, 21s to 235; light and unfinished, 14a to 19s. Lambs: A small yarding sold readily. Heavy prime lambs made 255; medium. 23s to 245; light, 19s to 21s, Calves: A smalT yarding, good quality calves being in keen demand. Runners made £3 12s to £4 14s; heavy vealers, £3 7s to £3 18s; medium, £2 15s to £3 'is; light, 35s to £2 8s; small, 25s to 325; freshdropped, 5s to 18s Pig 3: A larger yarding tnan last week, prices being unchanged. Choppers made £3 to £4 15s; medium and heavy baconers, £4 10s to £5 4s; light baconers and heavy porkers, £3 10s to £4 2a; medium and light porkers, ,£2 103 to £3 ss.

ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS. Alfred Buckland and S'ona, Limited, report.—Our supply of beef totalled 345 head a3 compared with 521 at last Wednesday's sale, comprising 'I&G steers and 149 cows and heifers. The Quality was not equal to last week. There was a steady demand with values on a par with late quotations. Extra choice ox sold to £1 14a per lOOlb; choice and prime, £1 lis to £1 13s; ordinary and plain, £1 5s to £1 103; prime young cow and heifer beef. £1 5s to £1 9s; ordinary cow beef, £1 to £1 4s; plain and rough, 123 to 18s; extra heavy prime steers, £l4 15s t'o £l6 17s Gd; four from Mr. Basil Orr, Tahuna, averaged £l6; heavy prime, £l2 10s to £ll 12s 6d; lighter prime, £ll to £l2 7s Gd; light prime, £9 to £lO 17a Gd, small and unfinished, £5 5s to £8 17s Gd; extra heavy prime young cows and heifers. £8 103 to £9 15s; heavy prime cows and heifers, £7 5b to £8 7s Gd; lighter prime. £5 10s to £7 2s Gd; other killable cows, £4 5s to £5 7s Gd; old and boner cows, £1 100 to £4. There was about an average yarding of sheep and an improved demand for prime wether mutton. Other classes were unchanged. Extra heavy prime wethers made £1 13s Gd to £1 14s 9d; heavy prime, £1 12s to £1 13s 3d; medium to heavy prime, £1 10s to £1 lis 9d; light to medium prime, £1 8s to £1 9a 9d. unfinished, £1 4a to £1 7s 9d; extra heavy prime young ewes. £1 3s to £1 53 3d; heavy prime. £1 Is to £1 2s 9d; lighter prime. 19s to £1 0s 9d; light killable ewes, 17s 6d to 18s 9d; other ewes, 10s 6d to 17s. Only 30 hogget 3 were penned and sold at from £1 Is to £1 9s Gd (1183 sheep sold) Calves were yarded in more than average numbers. very few good quality vealers being penned, values being generally easier. Runnei-3 made £3 to £-1 2s; medium vealers, £2 12s to £3 9a; light, £1 12s to £2 lis; small and fresh dropped. 2s to £1 103 (281 sold). There was an increased ynrding of pigs with a good proportion of first quality baconers. Prices remain very firm with values fully equal to last week's high rates. Choppers made £4 15s to £6 7s {pr extra heavy; lighter, £2 17s 6d to £4 10s; heavy prime baconers. £5 23 to £5 10b: medium baconers. £4 18s to £5; lights £.i 10s to £4 14s: heavy porkers. £4 to £4 12a: medium porkers, £3 10s to £3 18s; light, £3 to £3 8s: small and unfinished, £3 18s to £2 15s. Stores also sold readily. Good framed and conditioned made £2 5s to £2 15s; smaller, £1 16s to £2 2»; slips, £1 10s to £1 14a: good weaners, £1 to £1 4s; small, 15s to 18s The advertised sows in rr'g sold at from 3Jgns." to sJgns <494 pigs sold).

THE HAMILTON MARKET. SMALLER YARDiNG OF BEEF. Reports on the weekly stock Bale at Hamilton last Tuesday are as follow: Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report.—There was a smaller yarding of beef tnan usual, extra prime Quality selling at late rates. Plain bullocks* made £8 to X'S 16s; extra prime heifers and cows, £7 10s to £S 17s; medium quality light heifers, £4 15s to £5 ss; inferior quality cows, £3 7s 6d to £4 2s 6d: tour-year-old forward bullocks, £6 18s to £7 11b; its-calf backward Jersey cross heifers, £3 15s; dairy cows at late rates. There was a fair yarding of sheep. Fat sheep sold at lai© rates, pat wethers made 80s; fat owes, 21s f,d to 24s fol. The demand for ewes in lamb and stores of all classes was weak. We sold full-mouth ewes in lamb at._ 15s to 16a 6d. A small yarding of fat pigs with a large yarding of stores all sold at late rates. New Zealand Loan a"nd Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report.—Wo submitted » medium entry of beef, but few store cattle, and a good _ yardini of sheep. Prime fat cattle, especially cows, sold at advanced rates, but unfinished and plain beef declined in value. Sheep were in slightly better demand than last week, and we disposed of most of our entry at auction and afterwards. We

Quote:—Fat steers, £lO 15a to £l2 10a; prima fat cows, £lO to £lO 10s; fat heifers, £5 15s to £7 9s; medium fa« cowa, £5 17s to £6 15s; dairy cows, £4 10s to £7; fat wethers, £1 7s Id to £1 9s 6d; forward 4-tooth wethers, £1 4s to £1 4s 3d; small hoggets, 12s 6d; good 4-year-old ewes, in lamb to E.L. rams, £1 4s 6d; small 3 and 4-year-old ewes in lamb, £1 Is. An average yarding of fat pigs and a large yarding of stores and weaners came forward; both classes of pins sold at advanced rates. We quote:—Choppers, £4 10s to £6; heavy baooners, £4 8s to £4 16s: medium baconers, £3 17s ,to £4 2s. porkers, £2 10s to £3 ss: stores, £2 2s to £2 9a; others, £1 17a to £'2; slips, £1 -la to £1 12s; weaners, 17s to £l.

RATES AT ADDINGTON. FAT CATTLE PRICES FALL. [by telegraph.—press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. Entries at tho Addington market to-day were small except in the fat cattle section, in which there was an over supply. Store Sheep.—The entry was mainly of i ewes a few of which came from the North > Island. For ewes in iamb there was a j good sale; also for ewe hoggets. A line of ! lound-mouth Romney -cross ewes made 37s j and a specially good pen of ewe hoggets j 32s 3d. Two-toothed crossbred ewes realised j 26s to Cs3 9d; fair conditioned aged ewes, j 22s to 255; sound and failing-mouthed three- j quarter-bred ewes. 2Gs to 31s 9d; low conditioned aged ewes. 14s to 16s 9d: three- I quarter-bred ewe hoggets, to 32s 3d; crossbred ewo hoggets, 20s 9d to 28s 4d: wether hoggets. ISs to 225: cxilled halfbred wethers. 24s to 25s 4d: 6 and 6-tooth wethers. 25s to 28s. j Fat Sheep.—There was a smaller entry, j It was the first sale this season at which j exporter competition was absent, but the i market was a good one. Prices showed ; an advance on tho preceding sale to the i extent of about Is per head for ewes, but | wethers were easier. Extra prime wethers < brought up to 43s lOd; prime wethers, I S4s to 3Ss; medium wethers, 30s to 33s j fid: light wethers. 26s 6d to 295; extra j prime ewes, to 35s 10d; prime ewes. 24s ; fid to 29s Cd: medium ewes, 22s to 24s 3d: j light ewes, 19s to 21s 9d; aged ewes, 14s lid i to 18s Gd. j Fat Cattle.—A heavy entry of 643 head, j including several North Island drafts, was i penned. The qualitv was best for a number of sales, but the heavier entry caused a } decline in values up to' 20s per head. Best beef made to 41s per 1001b.; good prime, 37s 6d to 40a; heavy beef, 35s 6d to I 6d; North Island beef, 34s 6d to 37s (sd: ] medium, 34s to 36s 6d; inferior, 28s to | 31s 6d: rough, down to 22s 6d: extra heavy [ steers, £lO to £2l 12s Gd; prime heavy \ steers, £l6 10s to £lB 10s: prime medium ; weight, steers, £l4 10a to £l6 10s: medium i quality steers, £ll to £l4 ss; light steers. £9 to £lO 15s ; rough steers, £7 7s 6d to £8 15s; extra prime heifers to £l4 7s 6d: \ prime heifers, £9 10s to £l2; ordinary heifers, £7 to £9 ss: light heifers. £4 10s j to £6 15s; extra prime cows, to £l3 7s 6d: i prime cows. £9 to £ll 15s; medium cows, £(• ! to £8 15s; old cows, £4 to £5 15s. Vealors.—A very small entry caused a rise in prices. Good runners to £9 2s 6d; medium. £6 to £7 ss; calves, £3 10s to £5 10s: others, 15s to 303. Store Cattle.—A line of three and four-year-okl steers made from £6 17s 6d to £D 2 s 6d. Dairy Cattle.—Values were easier. Best springers brought £7 10s to £lO 10s; inferior, £3 to £7; medium heifers, £3 to £a <3s. Fat Pigs.—There was a small entry and a good demand. Choppers realised £4 to £8 18s 6d; baconers. £4 30s to £6 17s (average prico per lb. 9d to 9}d): porkers, 50s to 78s (averngo price per lb 103 d to lid). Store Pigs.—A very small yarding met with improved sale. Weaners, 19s to 25sslips, 26s to 28s 6d; stores. 30s to 42ssows in pig, £5 to £5 ss. OTHER COUNTRY SALES. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., report:—! During the week we held sales at Westfield, Pukekohe, Pokeno, Waiuku and Runciman; also three clearing sales. Storo cattle and beef sold at ruling price?. Dairy cows of first quality have improved in price, best cows at clearing sales selling at from £ls to £2O 10s. Good cows made £lO 10a to £l4 10s; second grade and backward calvers, £7 10s to £10; others, £2 10s to £7. Mr. W. Thomas' herd of 53 cows, sold at Bombay on F'riday, averaged £l2 2s and Messrs. Biddick and Newcombes' herd of 75, which was sold on Mondav at Runciman. averaged £ll 13s. Pigs at Pokekoho on Thursday and Waiuku on Monday, realised fully Westfield advanced rates. Mr. E. H. Colliers' owes in lamb made £1 5s 3d, hoggets, 19s 3d., TARANAKI OILFIELDS. Taranaki Oil Fields, Ltd., report as follows for the week ended July 17 Tarata.—Dismantling rig. East Coast No. 1 Well (Waiapu).— Drilled to 852 ft. in hard quartzite shale; last 7ft. in blue sandy shale; 12£ in. diameter casing run to 836 ft. Now preparing to cement casing in order to shut off water.

DEFECT IN APPLES. A STRANGE DISEASE. [from our own correspondent. ] LONDON, June 17. The London buyers of a quantity of New Zealand apples, part of the consignment by the Argyllshire, have been unable to give a name to a peculiar defect in some Jonathans from the Nelson district j The Jonathans in question are from only two orchards. The blemishes are quite unlike bitter pit or Jonathan spot. They are brown blotches which have a peculiar tendency to group themselves on 1 one part of the apple. The group takes the form of a circle. One might describe the marks by comparing them with the marks on a paper target made by a dart or pellet, but they are not uniformly over the apple. It appears as if the disease started at one spot and then proceeded to trace a circle several times. So far no one has recognised the defect as any well-known disease. Certainly the fruit is over-ripe, and this may have something to do with the trouble. Colonel C. Grav, Government representative of the Fruit Export Control Board, has had samples sent to the Food Investigation Board, and it is hoped that they may be able to give the diseasS a name and ascertain the cause of it.

COTTON FROM SAMOA. VALUE OF FIRST SAMPLES. [from our own correspondent.] LONDON, June 17. A few days before the strike there arrived the first samples of cotton grown on the experimental plots in Samoa.* As soon as possible after tile strike the High Commissioner's Department had the bales (16 in all) sent to Liverpool to the Cotton Growers' Association. Experts have examined the cotton, and the High Commissioner has now received a report on the samples. The experts write of the 14 bales first grade: "Strict good middling; _ bright creamy colour; staple 1 l-Bin. to 1 3-16 in.; rough", rather neppy and irregular; norma! value 12d per lb." There were two bales of second-grade cotton. Of one bale the experts write: "Dull stained; staple 1 l-Bin.: soft and weak; value 7d per lb." Oi the other bale they say: "Clean and white; value 10.75 d per lb. These values are based on the June American futures at 9.75 d." To the ordinary reader these reports may not convey much, but those who have a knowledge of cotton will find no difficulty in understanding them. At least the "prices will enable a comparison to be made with cotton from other countries. Yesterday's Liverpool prices, for instance, were: American middling, 9.46 d; Pernarn (Brazilian), 9,69 d; Peruvian, good, fair, smooth, 11.44<1; and good fair Tangnis, 11.19 c!; Sakellaridis (Egyptian), fair, good, fair, 16.40 d; African, middling, West, 9.34 d; good fair East, 11.60 d; and fair good fair Tinnivelly, 8.50 d.