BEEF VALUES SHOW DECLINE AT SALE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19154, 21 August 1930, Page 3

BEEF VALUES SHOW DECLINE AT SALE.

STORE SHEEP IMPROVED AT YESTERDAY’S MARKET

Beef values showed a decline of from £1 to £1 10s a head at the metropolitan market at Addington yesterday. Other prices remained firm at late rates, and store sheep showed a rise of up to Is 6d a head over recent prices. Fat sheep were yarded in greater numbers than they were at the National double market a fortnight ago, and met a good sale, maintaining recent rates. There were only very few fat hoggets yarded, but they sold well, recent prices being held. Spring lambs wefe again penned, to the number of sixteen. They met a goo(I sale at rates equal to about Is to Is 2d a lb. Values were:— Tat Cattle. Extra prime heavy steers, to £23 2s Gd. Prime heavy steers. £l7 to £2O. Prime medium-weight steers, £l4 to Medium quality steers, £lO 10s to £l3. Light steers, £8 to £lO. Extra prime heifers, to £l6. Prime heifers, £l2 to £l4. Medium heifers, £9 10s to £ll. Light heifers, £6 to £8 10s. •Extra prime cows to £l6 2s 6d. Prime cows, £ll to £l3. Medium cows, £9 to £lO 10s. Light and aged, £5 to £B. Pat Sheep. Values were:—Show wethers to 43s 9d, extra prime wethers to 365, prime wethers 27s to 31s, medium wethers 23s to 26s 6d, light wethers 18s to 225, extra ppime ewes to 25s lOd, prime ewes 19s 6d to 225, medium ewes 16s to 18s, light ewes 13s 6d to 15s 6d, aged ewes Us to 13s. Extra prime hoggets to 33s 9d r prime hoggets 25s to 28s, medium hoggets 21s to 245, light hoggets 16s to Store Sheep. Extra good two-tootlx half-bred ewes to 31s Gd. Good two-tooth half-bred ewes 25s to 28s 3d. Good six and eight-tooth half-bred ewes 18s to 19s 6d. Medium six and eight-tooth half-bred ewes 14s to 16s. Ordinary six and eight-tooth half-bred ewes to Us. Good s.m. half-bred ewes ISs to 20s 9a. Ordinary to medium s.m. half-bred ewes 12s to 15s 6d. Aged and backward half-bred ewes to 9 s. Extra good s.m. three-quarter-bred ewes to 25s 3d. Four and six-tooth half-bred wethers to 16s. Backward two-tooth wethers to 8s 6d. Ordinary ewe hoggets 15s Gd to 16s 6d. Wether hoggets to 9s lOd. Store Cattle. The yarding of fat cattle was an unusually heavy one, and there was a good

proportion of attractive lines. The Inquiry throughout was keen. Three-year-old Hereford-Shorthorn cross steers made £9, and a pen of 15-months steers of the same cross sold at £4 8s Gd. Yearling steers made up to £3 16s, and a second pen of 15-months steers sold at £4 Is. A pen of Shorthorn heifers, 15 to 18 months old, made £4 13s 6d, and a line of yearling heifers £3 4s. A line of grazing cows of good colours fetched £5 13s 6d, and the best of the cows made up to £6 ss. There were a few potting bulls offered, the top price being £5 Is. Dairy Cattle.

Tlie entry of dairy cattle was a heavy one, totalling 117 head. The offering consisted chiefly of unattractive cows and heifers. The market opened on a basis of the rates ruling at the previous sale and these were maintained until the close. Top price of £l4 10s was paid for a cow sold on account of R. Thomson (Springston). Values were: — Best second and third calvers. £ll to 1 £l3. Extra good sorts, to £1 \ 10s. Good sorts, £9 to £lO 10s. Medium sorts, £7 to £8 10s. Aged and inferior sorts, £4 to £6. Good heifers. £9 to £lO 10s. Medium sorts, £7 to £3 10s. Others, £5 5s to £6 ss. Vealers. There was a fair supply of vealers offered, though a good proportion of them was more suited to the store pens Good killable sorts sold at an advance on recent rates. The top price was £8 3s 6d. Other values \*re:—— Medium runners, £5 to £7. Good calves. 50s to 90s. Small calves. 17s to 40s. Pat riffs. There was a large yarding of porkers in the fat pig pens, and the better sorts mfet with a good demand, though the prices ruling at the previous sale were a little easier. There was a number of porkers that should have been in the store pens. Baconers sold well. Values were:— Porkers, 45s to 55s 6d. Heavy porkers, 58s 6d to 67s 6d. Average price per lb, 9£d to IOJd. Baconers, £3 12s 6d to £4 ss. Heavy baconers to £5 8s 6d. Average price per lb, 72d to BJd. Store Digs. Store pigs met with a good sale throughout. The yarding was a small one, and prices showed an improvement Prices were:— Large stores, 35s to 44s 6d. Medium, 28s to 32s 6d. Small, 25s to 27s 6d. Weaners, 21s to 28s 6d.