BURNSIDE STOCK SALE

Southland Times, Issue 24109, 24 April 1940, Page 3

BURNSIDE STOCK SALE

SMALLER ENTRY OF FAT SHEEP

VALUES IMPROVE BY 2/TO 2/6 A HEAD

(United Press Association) DUNEDIN, April 23. At the Burnside stock sale today there was a yarding of 352 fat cattle. The values were easier from the outset by 10/- to 15/- a head on all unfinished grades, while prime sorts maintained late levels. Extra prime heavy bullocks made to £lB/17/6, prime £l4 to £l6/2/6, medium £lO/2/6 to £l2/2/6, light from £B. Extra prime cows and heifers made up to £l2/12/6, prime £B/12/6 to £lO/7/6, medium and light from £4/7/6. Best three and four-year-old store steers realized up to £lO/10/-.

Only 1394 fat sheep were penned, compared with 2876 at the previous sale. A keen sale resulted, with values up by 2/- to 2/6. Extra prime heavy wethers brought up to 35/-, prime 30/to 32/9, medium 22/- to 24/-, light from 20/-. Extra prime heavy ewes realized up to 27/3, prime 20/3 to 23/6, light from 11/-.

Fat lambs, of which 1624 were offered, sold keenly and were firm on late rates. Extra prime lambs made to 35/6, prime 30/- to 32/6, medium 23/- to 25/6, light from 17/6.

ADDINGTON MARKET SMALLER ENTRIES RESULT IN FIRMER PRICES (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, April 23. Smaller entries again caused a firming of prices at Addington today. The holding of the sale a day earlier was due to Anzac Day falling on Thursday. The store sheep sale was the best since the ewe fail - season. The entry totalled 6000, compared with 8000 last week. The improved feed position was the main factor in the recovery. Last week’s improvement continued with a rise of 2/- to 3/- for fine-woolled sorts. Farmers came freely on the market as a result of the improved feed position. Little change took place in the coarsewoolled sheep prices. Chatham Islands two-tooths brought 30/- and older Chatham Island ewes 26/6. Finewoolled ewes brought 20/6 and 24/3, while four-year-old halfbreds sold at 12/3 to 12/4, with failing-mouthed at 7/4. Best wethers brought about 15/-. Nine pens of lambs were entered, prices for these showing an improvement of 2/- to 3/-, with forward rape lambs at 19/3 and medium at 16/6. The fat lamb entry dropped from 1200 to 800, the quality being poor. Butchers’ sorts sold up to 1/- over the schedule rates, freezing buyers being active at schedule rates.

The fat sheep section totalled 5000, a small proportion being prime wethers. All classes were appreciated, prime wethers being better by 1/- to 1/6. A scarcity of butchers’ sheep caused a firming of up to 2/- a head for best sorts. Best quality brought 28/- to 32/-, with tops at 35/10. Ordinary wethers sold from 22/-, good ewes at 23/- to 26/-, prime pens at 29/7. Medium ewes realized from 18/- to 22/-, export 12/6 to 15/-.

There was a yarding of 430 cattle, the entry including a larger number of well-finished steers. A freer demand existed for good cattle, with an appreciation of from 10/- to’ 15/- a head. Where the quality appealed, butchers competed actively. Good beef made 36/to 38/- a 1001 b. Tops realized £lB/7/6, medium to heavy steers £ll/15/- to £l5/15/-, rough down to £B/10/-. Best heifers made £lO/10/-, medium £6/10/- to £B/5/-. light £6. Cows ranged from £5/10/- to £l3/2/6. There was a small entry of porkers, with little change from last week’s values. Porkers were in short supply. A medium supply of baconers and a heavy supply of choppers were forward. Choppers made from £3 to £6 and porkers ranged from £2/5/- to £3, the average price per lb being 7d to 7.',c1. Baconers realized from £3/5/- to £5/8/-, the average price per lb being 6;id to 71d.

FAIR YARDING AT GORE SALE VALUES ON PAR WITH RECENT sales There was a fair yarding at the fortnightly Gore stock sale yesterday, when values were on a par with those ruling at recent sales. In the fat sheep section fat wethers brought up to 29/-, medium weights selling down to 20/-. The only pen of two-tooth ewes forward brought 32/-, and full and fail-ing-mouth sorts sold up to 7/3. Stor--2 and 4-tooth wethers made up to 23/6. A splendid line of ewe lambs brought 28/1, these being offered bj the Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association Ltd., on account of Mr D. W. McCall (Croydon). Fat steers and heifers made up the most of the cattle entry and these met with a good demand. Steers made up to £B/17/6 and heifers sold at up to £7/12/6. Fat cows made up to £7/10/-. Sales were:— New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.— Three fat wethers at 26/6, 1 at 29/-. Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association Ltd.— One hundred ana forty-six ewe lambs at 28/1, 1 empty cow at £2.

National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd.— Twenty-eight two-tooth wethers at 21/3, 27 f. and f.m. ewes at 7/3, fat steers at £B/17/6, £B/10/-. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd.— One hundred and thirty-two two-tooth ewes at 30/-, 1 fat steer at £B/5/-, 1 at £B/2/6, fat heifers at £7/12/6, £7/10/-, 3 store cows at £3/17/6, 2 at £4/15/-.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd.—Three fat ewes at £7/10/-, 1 bull at £lO/15/-, 15 fat wethers at 21/6, 16 at 21/6, 21 at 22/9, 16 at 20/-, 210 4-th wethers at 23/6, 108 s.m. ewes at 24/3.

RABBITSKIN SALE IN DUNEDIN

There was a full attendance of buyers at the Otago Farmers’ Co-operative Association’s rabbitskin sale in Dunedin yesterday. The quantity submitted was not as large as at last sale. Competition was keen for all grades. Summer skins advanced by £d, and at times 2d per lb, while racks and autumn grades were firmer by Jd to per lb. Some incoming skins realized up to 66d per lb. The following is the range of prices: Small 181 d; summer broken 26d; milky 27d to 35d; runners 33 : ’d; summer bucks 261 d; summer does 28d; light racks 42d; prime racks 38d; autumn broken 32d; dawny autumns 40|d; second early autumns 44d; first early autumns 47Jd; second late autumns 53d; first late autumns 59d; second incomings 60d; first incomings 66d; summer weevilly 223 d; winter weevilly 32d; summer black 28d; autumn black 36d; summer fawn 31d; autumn fawn 38Ad; hareskins 16fd; horse hair 27d. (