FAT STOCK MARKET

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22318, 16 January 1936, Page 5

FAT STOCK MARKET

PRICES AT WESTFIELD SMALL YARDING OF CATTLE SHEEP AND LAMBS IN DEMAND Heavy pasture growth resulting from recent warm rains was responsible for small yardings of cattle and sheep at the Westfieki fat stock sale yesterday, and, although the quality generally was not outstanding, tho market remained very firm, with a decided improvement in sheep values. Graziers are now compelled to retain their stock to handle one of tho heaviest supplies of feed at this season for many years. Fewer than 600 head of cattle were yarded. The quality of the ox beef offered was hardly up to standard, but a strong demand existed and good lightweight sorts found a ready market, with a top price of 32s per 1001b. for extra choice ox beef. Tho cows and heifers were also of medium quality and sold freely at .rates fully on a par with those ruling last week. The best of the yarding were prime steers from Mr. H. E. Beed, of Waerenga, these selling to £l3 12s 6d.

Easing in Values for Oalves

Calves were offered in full numbers with an unusually good supply of wellfinished vealers. There was a decided easing in values for the first time for several months, heavy and medium vealers suffering most with prices about 10s below those at recent sales. Toward the end of the sale the demand was'decidedly weak. A number of factors combined to make a bright tone in the sheep market. Apart from heavy pasture growth, recent torrential rains made mustering a matter of considerable difficulty. Good prospects for fat lambs and wool also promise to create an exceptionally strong demand for ewes and these were in very short supply. Actually there were a number of buyers operating for ewes for breeding. Bidding was brisk throughout and values made an allround improvement, amounting to as much as 3s in the case of ewes. An average yarding of lambs sold well, with store buyers helping to strengthen the market.

Pigs were again in exceptionally hoavv supply. Bidding was very free for all classes, baconers being very firm at late rates and porkers showing an improving tendency. Stores were in better demand than is usual at this time of the year. Prices per lb. for baconers were quoted at <Ud, and for porkers, 5Jd to ojd. Comparison of Quotations The following is a summary of the prices realised for fat stock for the last two weeks at the Westfield fat stock

Individual Consignments The top price in the ox beef market was that realised for the best of two trucks of prime Shorthorn steers from Mr H. E. lleed, of Waerenga. These sold to £l3 12s 6d, with an average for seven head of £l2 18s 6d. Another excellent consignment was that of two trucks from Mr. C. J. Ryan, of laumarunui, which ranged from £ll to £l3 10s. For a large line sold on behalf of the estate of Mrs. A. Muir, Tuakau, up to £lO 17s 6d was realised, and two well-finished lots to make to £lO 12s 6d were consigned by Mr. TV. J. Mills, of Hangiriri, and Messrs. Dingle and Son, of Waiotira. A truck from Messrs. Judd Bros., of Bickerstaffe, made to £lO ss, and the offering of Mr. K. D. Orr, of Tuakau, 1 sold to* £lO. The only other quotable lines were those of Mr. A. Orr, of Hoteo, and Mr. R. Harkness, of Karaka. In the cow and heifer beef section the best price was £8 12s 6d, paid for good cattle from Mr. 11. F. Hall, of Walton. Another good line which sold to £8 5s was that of Mr. J. Pohlen, of Matamata, while up to £8 was obtained for tlie offerings of the estate of C. Hill, of Ohinewai, and Mr. C. E. Johnstone, of Okoroire. The best of two cows from Mr. J. Wyllie, of Papatoetoe, sold for £7 15s, and up to £7 12s 6d was paid for a" line from Mr. G. It. Walters, of Waiuku. Other good cattle were those of Mr. H. Windsor, of Matangi, and Mr. R. Harkness, of Karaka, the top price being £7 in each case. DETAILS OF SALES AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS DALGETY AND COMPANY Dnlgety and Company, Limited, reports on tho sale ns follows: Beef.—We sold 148 head of beef, comprising 31 steers and 117 cows and heifers, against 201 head last week. The quality was again first-class, and, selling under a steady demand, we have to report a sale at equal to last week's rates. Extra, choice ox sold to 32s per 1001b: choice and prime, 28a to 31s; secondary and plain. 22a to 275; prime young cow and heifer beef, 27s to 31s; ordinary cow beef, 19s to 2Gs. Extra heavy prime steers ranged in price from £l2 to £l3. for steers from Mr. C. J. Ryan, Xiho Niho; heavy prime, £ll to £ll 15s; lighter prime, £!) 15s to £lO 15a: light prime, £8 _los to £9 12s 6d: small and unfinished, £7 10s to £8 os; extra heavy prime young cows and £7 to £8; heavy prime, £5 10s to £G 15s; lighter prime. £1 5s to £5 ss; other killablo cows, £2 5s to £4.

Sheep.—Sheep were penned in under average numbers, and ss n result the demand was keen, with values for both wethers and ewes improved on late quotations. Extra heavy prime wethers. 26s to 27s 9d; heavy prime. 24s 6d to 25s 6d; medium prime, 23s to 24s 3d; light and unfinished, 21s to 22s fid; heavy fi'ime ewes, 17s 6d to 10s; lighter prime, 15s 6d to 17s; other ewes, 12s Gd to 15s, Lambs.—A small entry of lambs sold freely at fully late rates. Heavy prime lamb, 22a to '24s Gd; medium prime, 10s fid to 21s Gd; light prime, 18s to 19s 3d* small and plain. 15s to 17s fid. Calves,—Calves were yarded in fully average numbers. The demand was not so keen, nnd values eased on last week's Quotations, especially for medium and heavy vealers, which were frilly 10s per head lower. Our offering did not include any heavy prime runners. Heavy vealers. £3 to £3 10s; medium, £2 10s to £2 18s; light, £9 2s to £2 8s; smaller, £1 8s to £2; rough calves, 10s to £1 3s; bobby calves, 4s to 8» Pigs.—Another heavy yarding of pigs came forward. The demand was good and alt classes sold readily at values firm on last week's rates. Heavy baconers, £2 13s to £2 18s; medium, £2 8s to £2 12s; light, £2 5s to £2 7s; heavy porkers, £2 Is to £2 4s; medium, £1 17s to £2; light, £1 14s to £1 1 Gs; small and unfinished, £1 6s to £1 12s. LOAN AND MERCANTILE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports on the sale as follows: Beef We had a smaller entry of beef, which met with a freer sale, with values very firm at Into quotations. Extra choice ox sold to £1 12s per 1001b; choice and prime, £L 7s to £1 Us: ordinary and plain. £1 3s to £1 Gs; prime young cow and heifer beef. £1 7s to £1 lis; ordinary cow beef, £1 2s to £1 6s. AVe did not yard any extra heavy prime steers; heavy prime, £lO 10s to £ll 15b; lighter prime, £9 10s to £lO 7s 6d:

liffht prime, £8 to £9 73 6d; unfinished and small, £1 10s to £7 15s. Extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £6 17a 6d to £8 ss: heavy prime, £5 17s 6d to £6 15s; lighter, XI 12s 6d to £5 15s; light cows. £3 to £-1 10s; other cows, £1 15s to £2 15s.

Sheep—We ""had less than an average yarding of sheep, competition was keen and values advanced 2s to 3s per head. Extra heavy prime wethers, to £1 9s; heavy prime, £1 7s Gd to £1 8s 9d; medium prime, £1 fis to £1 7s 3d; light prime, £1 3s to £1 5s 9d: small and unfinished, £1 to £1 2s 9d. Heavy prime ewes, 13s to 18s 9d; medium prime. 17s to 17s 9d; light prime, 15s to 16s 9d; interiorly fatted, 10s to 14s 9d. Lambs.—An average yarding of lambs also met with a ready sale, values improving for all classes, store lambs especially being in demand. Extra heavy prime lambs, £1 5s to £1 5s 9d: heavy prime, £1 4s to £1 4s 9d; medium prime. £! 2s to £1 3s 9d; light prime, 198 to £1 Is 9d; unfinished, 14s to 18s 9d.

Pigs.—There was again an extra heavy yarding o"f pigs. There was a very steady sale, values being firm on last week's quotations. Choppers sold from £l to £2 14s; heavy and medium baconers, £2 10s to £2 18s; light baconers and heavy porkers, £2 2s to £2 8s; medium porkers and light porkers, £1 lGs to £2; small and unfinished, £1 Gs to £1 14s. There was a keen demand for store pigs and values were firmer. Large stores, £1 fis to £1 lis; slips. £1 to £1 4s; weaners. 9s to 17s; sows (in pig), £2 7s 6d to £3.

Calves/ —Calves were penned in average numbers. There was a slackening off in demand, with a result of a patchy sale nt a considerable drop on late quotations. Runners, £1 13s to £i 17s <kl; heavy vealers, £2 15s to £3 Ss; medium, £2 4s to £2 14s; light. £1 14s to £2 2s; smaller, £1 !o £1 12s; small and fresh dropped, 5s to 19s; rough calves, 12s to £1 os. ALFRED BUCKLAND AND SONS Alfred Buckland and Sons, Limited, reports on the sale as follows: Beef.—We penned fat cattle to the number of 275 head, as against 340 head last week, comprising 101 steers and 174 cows and heifers. The demand for ox beef was again firm at last week's rates, with the quality hardly up to the usual standard. The cows and heifers penned were of medium quality find they also remained steady at rates ruling last week. Extra choice ox sold to £1 12s per 1001 b; choice and prime, £1 8s to £1 10s; secondary and plain, £1 5s to £1 7s; prime young cow and heifer beef, £1 8s to £1 lis; ordinary. cow beef, 18s to £1 . ss. Extra heavy prime Bteers ranged in price from £l2 to £l3 12a fid; seven eteers from Mr. H. E. Reed, \> aerenga, averaged £l2 18s 6d; heavy prime. £ll to £ll 15s; lighter prime, £lO to £lO 12s 6d; light prime, £8 10s to £9 10s; small and unfinished, £i to £7 10s. Extra, heavy prime young cows and heifers, £7 to £o 12s Gd: heavy prime, £5 10s to £6 lOe; lighter prime, £4 10s to £5 ss; other killable cows, £3 to £4.

Sheep.—Sheep were yarded in smaller numbers than last week. Competition was keen, with wethers showing a slight improvement on last week, while ewes advanced in price by about 2s to 3s per head. (716 sheep were sold.) Extra heavy prime wethers, £1 5s 6d to £1 7s; heavy prime, £1 4s to £1 ss; medium to heavy prime, £1 3s to £1 3s 9d; light to medium prime, £1 Is to £1 2s; unfinished, 16s 9a to £l. Extra heavy prime young ewes, 17s 6d to 19s; heavy prime. lGs to 17s; lighter prime, 14s 6d to 15s Gd; other killable ewes, 12s Gd to 14s; other ewes, 6s to 10s Gd.

Lambs.—Lambs were yarded to the number of 230. The quality was first class. Bidding was free, with values advancing on recent sales. Extra heavy prime lambs. £1 4s to £1 os; heavy prime. £1 2s to £1 3s 6d; lighter prime, £1 Is to £1 Is Gd; light prime, 18s Gd to £1; small and plain, 10s Gd to 16s.

Calves.—Fat and young calves were again in full 6upply, the offering including several truck lots of prime quality vealers. The demand slackened and values Buffered a decline. Runners made £2 6s to £5 4s; heavy vealers, £3 7s to £3 12s; medium, £2 163 to £3; light, £2 6s to £2 12s; Email, £1 10s to £1 18s; unfinished and bucketfed, 15s to £1 ss; bobby calves, 4s to Bs. (323 calves were Bold.)

Pigs.—Pigs were also yarded in large numbers. Bidding was very free, with values for baconers quite firm at fully late quotations. Competition for porkers was strong, with prices in some instances slightly better. Choppers made £1 10s to £3; heavy prime baconers, £2 14s to £2 18s; overweights, £2 8s to £2 12s; medium, £2 9s to £2 12e; light, £2 (is to £2 Ss; heavy porkers, £2 2s to £2 -4s; medium, £1 18s to jt'2; light, £1 15s to £1 17 s; small and unfinished, £1 8s to £1 12s; good stores, £1 6s to £1 11a; smaller, £1 2s to £1 ss; slips, 16s to £1 Is; good weaners, lis to 14s; weedy and small, 5s to 8s; baconers sold at an average of 4Jd per lb and porkers sid to 5Jd per lb. (A. total of 9SI pigs was sold.)

RATES AT ADDINGTON t FAT STOCK IMPROVE SMALL • YARDINGS REPORTED [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday Much smaller entries in the fat sections of stock "at to-day's Addington market met with an improved sale with a recovery it) prices. • Store Sheep.—About UOOO head of the entry were store lambs. Ihese sold very briskly, ewe lambs making up to 20s and wether to 18s yd. Aauh wethers sold slightly better than the week before and there were too few ewes forward, to indicate any difference in values. Fat Ltmbs. —1850 were penned. There was a sood sale at export values.

Fat Sheep.—3lso wero penned, ds against 7000 last week. Good ewes improved by Is 6d to 2s a head, best wethers by a shilling with other sorts showing little change. The export trade bought freely in the lighter classes. Best wethers made to 265; good, 22s to 23s 6d; and ordinary, down tcv 18s. Best ewes made from 19s to 245; medium, 15s to 18s; and inferior, lis to 13s 6d._ Fat Cattle.—44s were penned, as against 535 last week. Values for good beef were up by 20s a head, and for cow by 10s. In casea young beef made up to 30s per 1001b., but the general range for better quality was from 25s to 28s (id. The top price was £l3 7s 6d for steers, £9 2s 6d for heifers, and £9 12s tVd. for cows.

Fat Pigs.—A good sale for baconers at slightly improved values, pcrkers being unchanged. The average price for porkers wa» sid to 61d, and for baconers, 4id to 5Jd. PUTARURU OFFERING The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company, Limited, reports having held its Putaniru stock sale on Monday, when a full yarding of cattle, with a good proportion of cow beof, came forward, these selling at late rates. A full yarding of second quality and boner cows sold to exporters at late ruling rates. A mixed entry of sheep was mostly of inferior quality. Competition for this class was not keen, but fat sheep and good store lambs found a ready sale. With the exception of heavy porkers, prices for fat pigs were on a par with other centres. Stores and weaners also elicited good inquiry, and prices wero firm. Light fat cows and heifers, £3 18s to £4: killuble cows, £2 16s to £3 10s: heavy boner cows, £2 5s to £2 lis: lighter. 25s to £2; heavy potter bulls, £4 15s to £5 17s fid; lighter. £2 to £3 17s 6d: freshconditioned and store cows, £2 10s to £3 ss; poorer conditioned cows. 2Ss to 365. Sheep: Light fat hoggets, 20s to 21s 6d; ki.llable ewes, 13s to 13s 6d; forward-con-ditioned la nibs, ]2s lOd to 13s 3d: storeconditioned lambs, 8s 6d to 10s sd: cull hoggets. 8s Id to 8s 6d. Pigs: Medium baconers, £2 lis to £2 13s; light, £2 8s to £2 10s: heavy porkers, £2 to £2 ss; medium, 37s to 395: light, 33s to 3fis; unfinished. 29s to 325: large stores, 25s 6d to 28s Gd; medium, 22s 6d to 255; best slips, 18s to 225; weaners. 10s to 16s. / TAUMARUNUI VALUES [by telegbaph—OWN' cobbespondent] TAUMARUNUI, Wednesday

There was a good attendance at the Taumarunui sale, and fair entries of sheep, caUle and pigs. A full clearance was made at late rates. Fat wethers, 19s 4d; two-tooth owes, 19s Id; two-tooth wethers, 15s 3d: four and six-tooth ewew, 23s 8d; cull ewes, 10s 3d; black-face lambs, 14s Id to 17s; mixed sex woolly lambi". 20s; wether lambs. 15s 7d; cull lambs, 10s 3d; forward lambs. 15s (>d; fat bullocks. £7 15s; fat steers. £7 15s; fat cowe. £2 9s to £4 10s; small prime steers, £4 Is; store steers, £3 to £5 3s; yearling steers, 35s to £2 4s; 18months steers. £3; 15-months steers. £3 6s: empty cows, 375: runners, £2 10s; empty heifers, 30s to £2 10s; store cows. £1: cows in calf, 31s; heifers in calf, £2 ss; bulls. £4 Is to £5 15s; cows in milk, to £3 ss. Piss: Weaners, 10s to 13s fid; small stores, 14s Cd to l(is 9d; large. ISs Gd to 22s (3d; empty sows. 21s; sows in pig. 20s to 335. PIGS FIRM IN THE NORTH [by telegraph—own correspondent] DARGAVILLE, Wednesday At the fortnightly pig sale, held at Maungaturoto on Monday by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, fully advertised numbers came forward and a total clearance was effected. An increase in the demand resulted in a considerable improvement in prices over the previous sale. Heavy bnconers made £2 14s to £2 17s; medium. £2 (>s to £2 13s; light baconers and heavy porkers. £2 to £2 ss; medium porkers, £1 17a to £2 2s; light, £1 ltis to £1 19s; small and unfinished, £1 Us to £1 15s; large stored, £1 Ss to £1 13s; slips, 17s to 265; weaners, 13s 6d to 16s: good heavy choppers, £2; others, 16« to £1 2s.

sales: — Last Week This "Week BEEF (per 1001b.)- - Extra choice ox . 32/Choice and prime 28/- to 31/28/- to 31/ox .... Choice and prime 28/- to 31/28/- to 31/cow and heifer . Bonor and rough . 18/- to 25/18/- to 27/SHEEP (per head) — 21/- to 26/9 Prime wethers . . 23/- to 29/Unfin. wethers . 16/9 to 22.9 17/6 to 20/9 Prime ewes 15/- to 19/13/- to 18/6 Unfinished ewes . 6/- to 14/9 3'G to 12/3 Prime lambs 20/- to 25/9 19/- to 24,'Unfin. lambs 14/- to 19/9 10/6 to 18/6 CALVES (per head)— 52/- to 100/"RunneTB 35/- to 104,'Vealers 34/- to 72/42/- to 85/PIGS (per head)— 45/- to 59'Baconers . • 46/- to 58/Porkers AVenners 35/- to 44/5/- to 14/35/- to 44/3/- to 13'15/- to 21'25/- to 30 fSlips Large stores 16/- to 23/26-'- to 31/-