ADDINGTON YARDS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20539, 14 February 1935, Page 10

ADDINGTON YARDS.

Larger Entries of Store Sheep and Lambs. GOOD SORTS ADVANCE. Larger entries in most sections at Addington yesterday did not have much effect on prices. In the store sheep pens younger sorts showed an advance of 2s a head, hut the majority of the offering was of poor quality. Store lambs sold firmly. Fat sheep had a fair sale, with wethers in keen demand on account of a short supply. Good ewes also sold well, but for anything else values were down by from Is to Is 6d a head. Fat lamb prices were firm. A lot of rubbish was offered as fat cattle, and a slack sale resulted. Cow values were down 10s a head, and only six steers made over £lO Dairy cattle adI vanced £1 a head; but there was little i demand for a poor lot of stores. | Store Sheep. I The entry of store sheep was much bigger than that of last week. Except , for an odd pen or two of wethers, the i yarding was made up of ewes of mixed ages. Generally speaking, the appearance of the sheep was not much better than it was last week, but the younger sheep sold at prices up to 2s a head better than at the previous sale. Included in the yarding were several pens of Chatham Island ewes and they met with a ready sale. The top price was 28s 6d, which was secured for a line of sixty-five two-tooth half-bred ewes from Cheviot, and 27s 3d was paid for 264 two-tooth Corriedale ewes from Swannanoa. The wethers were a poor-looking lot, the top price being 15s lid. Values were:— Good two-tooth Corriedale ewes, to 27s 3d. Ordinary four and sik-tooth crossbred ewes. 20s 3d to 235. Ordinary sound-mouth cross-bred ewes, to 18s 6d. Good two-tooth half-bred ewes, to 28s 6d. Ordinary two-tooth half-bred ewes, to 24s 7d. Ordinary sound-mouth half-bred ewes, to 16s 6d. S. and f.m. ewes, 10s to 13s. Aged ewes. 5s Id to Ss 6d. Two-tooth half-bred wethers, to 15s lid. Ordinary half-bred wethers, 12s lid to 14s. The principal sales were:— Fat Sheep. The entry comprised 5200 head, compared with 4400 last week, practically all from North and Mid-Canterbury. Outside sheep were fewer than for a long time, but included one good truck lot from Oamaru. Ewes comprised the I bulk of the entrj*. and most of them ! were of very moderate quality. There was a very free sale for the small entry of wethers, and the best ewes, which fully maintained last week’s values. For the other ewes, however, particularly the heavy proportion of indifferent sorts, there was an increasingly sluggish demand as the sale progressed, and these were down on last week’s market by about a shilling to Is 6d a head. 1 There was a number of passings toi wards the end of the sale, j Top price for wethers was 28s lOd, ' secured for part of a line of ten sold | on account of H. Geeson (Domett). Top price for ewes was 21s 4d, which was J paid for sheep consigned by the Kinloch • Estate (Little River), j Values were: I Extra prime heavy wethers to 28s lOd. j Prime heavy wethers 23s to 255. Prime medium-weight wethers 21s to 22s 6d. Medium-quality wethers 18s to 20s 6d. Light wethers to 17s. Extra prime heavy ewes to 21s 4d. Prime heavy ewes 17s 6d to 20s. Prime medium-weight ewes 14s 6d to 17s . Ordinary ewes 3 1s 6d to 13s. Light ewes 9s 6d to 11s. Fat Cattle. The entry of fat cattle comprised 50i> head, a few more than at the sale the previous week, but considerably in excess of the normal entry for some time. It contained mpre unfinished cattle and medium ana inferior sorts than for some months. The station lines contained a big proportion of unfinished steers. Cows of varied quality formed the bulk of the entry. The absence of a market in the store pens is diverting all classes of cows into the fat section, and this is depressing the market very pronouncedly for cow beer and is also having an effect on the value of the best quality. The market opened satisfactorily for the few better pens when the sale began, but there was a slackness throughout, and all round values were about 10s a head below those of last week. Medium and light cows were particularly hard to sell, and for the worst of them anv price was offered. Best price of the day was £lO 2s 6d for a pen of five steers from R. J. Brown (Kaituna) and one from Richmond Hill. It is a long time since only half a dozen cattle reached the double figure mark at Addington. Best heifer price was £7 17s 6d for a beast sold on account of Mason Bros. (Okains Bay). Values were:— 6d EXtra prlme heav y steers, to £lO 2s. Prime heavy steers, £8 to £9. ♦ medium-weight steers, £7 10s to £8 10s. Medium quality steers, £4 5s to £7. Light steers, to £4. Extra prime heifers, to £7 17s 6d. Prime heifers, £4 15s to £6 10s. Ordinary heifers. £3 to £4 10s Light heifers, to £3 15s. Extra prime cows, to £7 2s 6d. Prime cows, £4 10s to £5 10s. Ordinary cows. £2 10s to £4. Light cows, to £2 ss. Store Cattle. Because of the shortage of feed there no * a vei *y sood demand for store cattle, the yarding of which was bigger than last week’s, and comprised a few pens of forward steers. Good coloured two and a half-year to three-year-old steers realised up to £3 15s, and a pen tyf-year-oid forward steers made 15s. The balance of the yarding comprised mostly odd cows. Good coloured young fresh cows, sold up to I A®' ? thers from 10s to 255. Odd ,° ts * of^ ftee !l- rr, onth-old heifers realised P P is,®no 0s ‘ i T s® r ® was a ®mall yarding to 35s 1 ’ and fattenin S bulls sold at up Dairy Cattle. entry of dairy cattle totalled h , ead - Local dairymen competed keenly, and there was a general rise in prices of £1 a head. values were: 10?°to d £ J eco,ld and third carvers, £5 Medium second and third calvers. £3 15s to £4 10s. Aged and inferior. £2 to £3 ss. Good heifers, to £7 12s 6d. Medium heifers, £4 to £5. Others, £2 5s to £3 10s. Vealers. At the opening of the sale, the yarding of vealers was small, but with late arrivals, the supply exceeded the demand and prices fell. Quality was mixed and many beasts m the rough and condition should not have been ln the section. Top price was £3 13s 6d. Values were: Good vealers, 35s to 555. Ordinary vealers, 15s to 30s. Small calves. Is to ss. Fat Figs. , The ?. n,r y *" the fat pig section was or medium size. There was a good demand throughout, the entry being of *? et *er sual,tr5 ual,t r than tha t of last week. Included in the entry was a good truck lot from the West Coast. Purchases for export numbered 125 head, baconers as well as porkers. Values were: Choppers, £2 to £4 16s. Light baconers, 45s to 53s 6d. Heavy baconers, 57s 6d to 64s 6d. Extra heavy baconers. 67s 6d to £3 13s 6d; average price per lb 51d to sfd. Porkers, 32s to 36s 6d. Heavy porkers, 38s 6d to 42s 6d. Average price per lb, sjd to 6d. Store Figs. There was another heavy yarding of store pigs, weaners and slips, showing a further drop on last week’s low rates. On the other hand, all classes of stores sold at prices firm on late rates. Values were: Small weaners, 7s 6d to 9s 6d. Medium weaners, 10s to 11s. Large weaners. 11s 6d to 12s 6d. Slips, 13s to 14s. Small stores, 15s to 16s 6d. Medium stores. 17s to 20s. Large