BURNSIDE MARKET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19441, 29 October 1925, Page 9

BURNSIDE MARKET

FAT CATTLE SLIGHTLY LOWER. STORE CATTLE SELL WELL. PIGS EASIER. [Per Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Oct. 28. At Burnside to-day, the fat cattle sale opened on medium quality cattle at prices that were from 10s to 10s (id lower than those of last week, and continued for a time at those rates. Sheep prices were not greatly changed. Good store cattle sold well, and pigs were easier. Fat Cattle.—A yarding of 236 head, compared with 209 head last week. Some specially prime bullocks, heifers and cows were included in a representative entry. Extra prime handyweight ox beef sold at up to 65s per lOOlbs.; medium quality and heavy weight ox beef, to 60s; prime cows and heifers, from 47s to 50s; old cowf to 40s per 1001 b.; extra prime bullocks. £3O 10s; prime, £24 to £2B; lighter, £l4 to £lB 10s; extra prime heifers. £l6 to £l9 ss; prime cows, £ll to £lB. Sheep.—An entry of 1765 head, made up of prime woollcd wethers and ewes, i together with some shorn wethers and a sprinkling of plain sheep, compared with 1862 last week. Heavies were in full supply. There was a good opening on fair weights and light prime sheep at very firm prices. Prices eased towards the middle of the sale, which, after some irregularity, ran out under good demand. Heavy sorts can be quoted at from par to Is down, and others were practically unchanged. I Prime wethers in wool made from 7d to |7Ad per pound; prime shorn wethers, I from 5-Ad to 6d; prime ewes in wool, I 6d; prime shorn ewes, 43d to sd. Extra ; prime heavy wethers made from 55s to 156 s 3d; prime heavy, 46s to 49s ,9d; ' lighter, 43s to 455. Fat hoggets went to 46s 6d; heavy ewes, 46s to 48s 9d; j lighter ewes, 37s to 40s. Shorn ewes, 37s to 40s. Shorn wethers, which were forward in good order, made from 37s • to 42s Gd; extra prime shorn wethers,' to 44s 6d. Lambs.—Some seventy were forward- I ed of fair to good quality. A few of them wore rather light. The demand was very fair, and the best lambs sold at from 44s to 51s. Lighter sorts, from 265. Prime lamb was worth from Is 6d to Is 8d per pound. .

I Store Cattle.—There was a full yard- [ ing of store cattle, 356 head being for[ward, compared with 100 head last ' week. There were some very fair 'four, three and two-year-old steers, and the balance was made up of cows and heifers. Well-bred cattle met with good demand, and others wore somewhat dull of sale. Some fifty head of forward three and four-year-old bullocks made from £ll to £l3 17s 6d, and backward medium three-year-olds made from £9 5s to* £lO ss. A number of plain cattle were passed in at auction. Pigs.—There were 109 fats and 72 slips. Extra big baconcrs sold well-and average baconcrs and porkers were about 6s per head down. Baconers sold at from 8d to BAd and porkers to 9d per lb.