STOCK VALUES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 14, 7 April 1927, Page 2

STOCK VALUES

PRICES AT WESTFIELD PORK FIRMER A shorter yarding of beef and a rather heavier yarding of sheep, as compared with last week, faced buyers at Westfield yesterday. Pigs came forward in lesser numbers and prices firmed accordingly. Competition was good for the greater part of the sale, though interest waned towards the close. CATTLE Best quality beasts were being sought after at values slightly in advance of last week’s quotations. Inferior lots were not in great demand. There was an average yarding of mostly good quality calves, but competition was not spirited and prices were even lower than last week. Prices in the cattle pens ranged as follow: Extra heavy prime steers made from £ll 10s to £l2 10s: heavy prime steers, £lO to £ll 7s 6d: prime, £ 9 to £9 17s 6d; light. £8 to £8 17s 6d: small and unfinished, £5 10s to £7. Extra heavy prime young cows and heifers, £7 to £7 17s 6d: heavy, £5 15s to £6 17s 6d; lighter sorts, £4 10s to £5 12s 6d: just killable inferior sorts, £ 3 to £4 7s 6d. Runners made £1 16s to £2 14s; heavy vealers. £2 to £3 4s; medium, £ 1 3s to £2; light. £ 1 to £1 ss; rough and plain, 7s to 12s; small and fresh dropped, 3s to 18s. SHEEP Sheep were penned in larger numbers than last week, but prices held practically at late quotations with an easing tendency towards the close of the sale. quality of the yarding was not as good as last week, the sheep being smaller and, on the average, not so well finished. A wellfinished line of wethers made £ 1 6s 6d; prime wethers made from £1 3s to £1 4s 3d; prime, £1 Is to £1 2s 6d: light and small, 17s to 20s 6d. Few pens made over 235. Extra prime heavy ewes made up to 19s 9d; heavy prime, 15s to 17s; prime, 14s to 15s 9d: lighter killable sorts, 12s 6d to 13s 9d. Lambs, though mostly carrying good skins, could have been better finished, and there were few extra prime pens. The top price for a pen of choice prime lambs was £1 3s 9d; prime lambs made from 20s 6d to 22s 3d; seconds, 18s to 20s 3d; inferior sorts, 14s to 17s 9d. A small yarding of store sheep and lambs was disposed of at the conclusion of the fat stock sale at values allowing little room for profit, prices in some cases being within Is or 2s of the fat pen quotations. PIGS A small yarding of good quality pigs drew greater competition and there was a general hardening in prices, which ranged as follows: —Heavy baconers made up to £3 13s: medium, £3 5s to £3 8s; light, £ 3 2s to £3 4s; heavy porkers, £2 16s to £3 Is; medium, £2 12s to £2 15s; light, £2 6s to £2 10s; small and unfinished. £1 19s to £2 ss; small stores, £1 15s; weaners, 6s to 15s. ADDINGTON STOCK SALES BEEF VALUES LOWER Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. At Addington market to-day there was another heavy yarding of store sheep. There were good entries of fat sheep and lambs and an exceptionally large entry of fat cattle. Pigs were also in heavy supply. There was a free sale for forward store lambs and other sorts met with good demand from South Canterbury buyers. For locallybred ewes the demand was fairly good, while the best of two-tooth North Island ewes were wanted. Other sorts showed a decline of Is to 2s per head on last week’s rates. Fat cattle were down £ 1 to £ 1 5s per head, but the supply was well absorbed by butchers and there were very few passings. Fat sheep and fat lambs showed little or no change in values. Fat pigs sold well up to kite rates. Store Sheep^—Best forward lambs brought up to 17s; forward lambs, 14s to 15s 8d; medium lambs, 11s 6d to 13s 6d; small and inferior lambs, Ss to 10s 9d: cull lambs, 5s 6d to 7s 9d; good half-bred ewe lambs, to 24s 4d; ordinary lialf-bred ewe lambs, 18s 9d to 21s; three-quarter-bred ewe lambs, 16s to 19s 6d; best North Island two-toothed ewes, 27s 6d to 29s 3d; ordinary North Island two-toothed ewes, 24s 6d to 26s 6d; low-conditioned twotoothed Romney ewes, 20s to 23s 6d; twotoothed half bred ewes, 28s Id; inferior two-toothed halfbred ewes, 22s to 255; sound-mouthed halfbred ewes, 24s to 26s 6d; inferior sound-mouthed halfbred ewes, 18s 9d to 22s Sd; failing-mouthed halfbred ewes, 12s 6d to 16s 9d; forward two and four-toothed wethers, to 18s; four-toothed crossbred wethers, 12s 6d to 13s Id; six and eight-toothed wethers, to 16s; six and eight-toothed halfbred wethers, to 16s 6d. Fat Lambs.—The yarding of fat lambs totalled 3,060 and was of mixed quality. Extra prime lambs realised up to 30s Id; prime lambs, 25s to 27s 3d; medium lambs, 22s to 24s 6d; light and unfinished, 18s to 21s 6d. Fat Sheep.—There was a heavier yarding of fat sheep than the previous week, about 14 pens being occupied. There was a good entry sale throughout at about the same rates as last week. Extra prime wethers brought up to 32s lOd; prime wethers, 27s to 30s; medium wethers, 25s to 26s 9d; light wethers, 20s 6d to 24s 6d; extra prime ewes, to 26s Id; prime ewes, 18s 6d to 235: medium ewes, 14s 6d to 18s; light, ewes, 12s 9d to 14s. Fat Cattle.—Values were down about £1 to £1 5s on the average, but the demand kept up well to the end. Extra prime beef sold up to 36s per 1001 b.; prime quality steers and heifers, 30s to 335; medium, 25s to 295; and rough cow beef, as low as 20s per 1001 b. Extra prime heavy steers brought up to £l6 12s Od; prime medium-weight steers, £l2 to £l4; medium-quality steers, £8 5s to £ll 10s; light and unfinished steers, £5 12s 6d to £8; extra prime heifers, to £l3 12s 6d; prime heifers, £7 15s to £9; light heifers, £4 to £7 20s; extra prime cows, to £ll 12s 6d; ordinary cows, £4; prime cows, £6 to £8; rough cows, £3 7s 6d to £5 ss. Large sorts made up to £6 10s; best vealers, £5 to £5 15s; medium vealers, £2 to £4 15s; small and inferior calves, 10s to 30s. Store Cattle.—There was a fairly large mixed yarding, ranging from calves to old cows. Four and five-year-old steers brought up to £8 12s 6d; two-year steers, £3 13s 6d; yearling steers, £2 10s to £3 7s 6d; best cows, £2 to £3 2s; Jersev calves, 10s; bulls, £3 Is to £7 10s. Dairy Cattle.—The entry totalled 79 head and inferior sorts were more plentiful than at late sales. Good sorts sold well. Best second, third and fourth ealvers made £.9 10s to £l4 ss; medium sorts, £6 10s to £9; inferior sorts, £4 to £6; springing heifers, £4 10s to £9 10s. Fat Pigs.—There was a good entry and a god demand for porkers. Choppers made £3 to £7 9s 6d; extra heavy baconers, to £4 10s; heavy baconers, £4 to £4 ss; lighter, £3 10s to £3 15s (equal to s}d to per lb.); large porkers, £2 15s to £3 6s; light porkers, £2 5s to £2 12s (equal to 7d to Sd per lb.). Store Pigs.—There was a large yarding and the market was easier. Weaners brought 12s 6d to 16s; slips, 17s to 245; medium stores, 26s to 31s; large stores, 32s to 3Ss 6d; extra large store, to £2 8s; sows, in pig, £2 12s to £3 ss; ten-months-old boars, to £2 12s 6d. WAIKATO PRICES A large yarding of beef, with an easing in values, was the feature of the Hamilton stock sale held on Tuesday last. In the store section a small

yarding of weaner Jersey heifers and 2 8-months-old Shorthorn heifers xnet. with a good demand. A medium ent y of sheep sold at late rates. The New Zealand Loan and Me * cantile Company, Ltd., quote as to - low: _ c*. Light fat steers, £6 12s to £< 1 prime fat heifers, £4 11s to £4 lbs, * cows, £6 2s to £6 11s; oxdmaxy fat cow--£4 5s to £4 19s; lighter ditto, £-• V. £4; fleshy cows, £2 15s to £3 4s: Jersey heifers, £3 5s to £4 ss, aacows, £5 to £6 15s; fat ewes, Us * to 15s 6d; light fat 2-tooth wethers. * to £1 Os 6d; fat lambs, 19s to £ I f ward woolly lambs, 14s Id to 14s fd; ditto, 12s lid; shorn store iambs, i s 1 f.m. ewes, 13s. rs Pigs.—Heavy baconers, £3 4s to ~ 11s; medium ditto, £2 1«s to £3 -s, baconers and heavy porkers, £2 Ss t 14s; porkers, £2 Is to £2 6s; store. , ~ 4s to £1 9s; slips, 16s to £U we»n» * 10s to 12s. i