ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. CHRISTCHTJRCH. August 12.

Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 40

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. CHRISTCHTJRCH. August 12.

At the Addmgton live stock market to-day there were small entries of stock, and an equally Email attendance at the yards. Fat cattle und fat lambs sold at about the previous v. oek's prices, and £at sheep were rather easier. Pigs met with a good sale A few lines of breeding ewes were mostly good sorts, and add lots of hoggets and w-ethers formed the entry of store sheep. There was- an impiovemen.t in the demand, and a clearance was effected at prices that e>iowed a little improvement in the cases of the better classes of 6heep Two-tooth ewes made- up to l"s 6d ; young ewes of mixed ages to 18s 2d down to 14s lOd ; best hoggets to 13s 3d; and lifclfbred wether hoggets, » lla 9d to 12s 6d. " '

The first line of ewes with lambs for this v.-ere offered, and failed to find a. buyer at the reserve put upon them, though > the lambs were a well-grown and healthy lot

ihere were about a dozen lots of fat lambs penned, and they met with good competition t no to late rates, prices ranging from 12s to

16* Bd. and a few up to 18s

There ■wa.s a small yarding of fat sheep, and owing to the butchers having bought heavily the week before, tho demand was slack, «ud prices for wethers were rtithex easier. Ihe range of prices was : Extra prime wethers, 24s 9d to 365 ; prime, 18s Gd to 22s 6d; others, 16s to 18s; extra prime «wes, 225; prime, 17s to 20s; medium, 14s to 16s 6d; aged and light, 11s to 13s Gd ; merino •wethers, 14s 9d

The yarding of fat cattle totalled 236, and th» quality thcaigh good, was not up to tho

level of the previous week. Prices were irregular, but very little change in values tcck place. Best steer beef made 24s to 28s; medium, 21s 6d to 23s 6d ; cow and inferior, 18s to 21s. Steers brought £7 to £11 17s 6d; heifers, £4 17s 6d to £10 ss; and cows, £4 10s to £8 15s.

An average yarding of veal calves sold at 4s 6d to 60s, according to size and quality.

There was an active demand for store cattle, and two-year steers made £2 10s ; twoyear heifers, £2 2s to £2 As ; three-year heifers, £3 8s ; and dry cows, 17s 6d to, £4 2s 6d.

Dairy cows sold at £3 10s to £8.

Pigs were entered in limited numbers, and met with a good sale. Choppers brought JE4 and porkers to £2 Bs, equal to 5Jd to 6d per lb. No baconers were penned. Large stores made 35s to 425, medium 25s to 30s, and weaners 14s to ISs.