FAT STOCK PRICES

Opunake Times, 27 June 1939, Page 3

FAT STOCK PRICES

VALUES IN ENGLAND REPORT OE LARGE SALE (Editor’s Note: With quotas of meat exports from the Dominions now so prominent in the public eye, and in view of frequent reference to the steps taken in England to subsidise agricultural industries, New Zealand farmers should be keen to know how values for fat stock in England compare with those in this country. The following article, taken from the “Banbury Guardian” of April 20 last, supplies a report of a stock market, one of the largest in England, and the information will no doubt be of considerable interest to our

readers. We are obliged to Miss Truda Fisher, of C-ha combe, near Banbury, in Oxfordshire, who is at present on a visit to New Zealand, for the newspaper). The report is as follows: Midland Marts Limited report

the following numbers of stock forward at their market on Thursday 494 fat cattle, 380 store cattle, 121 dairy cows, 220 calves. 362 pigs and 2,140 sheep. In the fat cattle section fat hulls barely maintained the previous week’s rates. All classes of fat cows met a fast trade, heifers were also dearer and bullocks hove to be quoted at late rates. The ton price for best beef was 445. ner cwt. Fat bulls made to £23-5/-. fat cows to £2l. heifers fo £23-15/-. and fat bullocks to £2O. Trade for dairy cows, excepting for the best. was not mn't r> so good. Cows in milk made to £2O- -- and heifers in milk to £2315/-. In the calf section the high ■prices recorded at the previous week’s sale were fully maintained. A total clearance was effected at prices in favour of vendors. Fat calves made to £6-15/- and rearing calves to 82-. In the store cattle section larger numbers were forward and a good entry was met. Three-year-old grazing cattle made to £lB-17/6, two-year-olds to £l7, and yearlings to £l2-10/-. No change is to be reported in prices for fat pigs of all classes. All sows made to £l2-12/6, haconers to £B-15/-, porkers to 80/-, 8-10 week old stores 20/- to 29/and 12-16 week old 32/- to 50/-.

Sheep also fully maintained the previous week’s rates. Fat lambs made to 58/-, fat ewes to 45/-. shearlings to 60/-, and fat tegs to G6/6, and store ewes and lambs to Tl/-. In tbe produce section egg* made a top price of 1/6, with an average of 1/6-}. Butter, toil price 1/7, average 1/6. Hens to 4/1. and cockexels to 5/4