BURNSIDE MARKET

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19478, 23 December 1925, Page 11

BURNSIDE MARKET

SALE HELD YESTERDAY. ADVANCE IN FAT SHEEP. fPer Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Dec. 22. The stock sale at Burnside, which was a double market on account of the Christmas holidays, was held to-day, which is a day earlier than usual. Fat sheep were in indifferent supply, as also were pigs, but fat cattle and fat lambs were plentiful. Fat Cattle. —There was an entry of 234 head, compared with 334 last week Some prime bullocks were in evidence while medium steers were not inconspicuous, and there was also a fair number of prime cows. The demand at the opening was slack for inferior quality beasts and good sorts brought prices barely on a par with the previous week’s rates. However, the sale brightened towards the close. There was no quotable change in prices. Prime handyweight bullocks were worth from 40s to 43s per 1001 b., prime heavyweight bullocks, from 37s 6d to 39s 6d per 1001 b.; prime heifers, to 355, and cows and light heifers from 22s 6d to 30s; prime bullocks made from £l6 to £lB 10s; heifers from £6 7s 6d to £lO ss; cows from £5 15s to £9 15s.

Fat Sheep.—There were 1121 penned, compared ■with 2229 head last week. The selection was wide, generally of good quality, all but a few pennings being shorn. The sale was good, though values were somewhat irregular and mostly Is 6d to 2s 6d (in places more) in advance of last week’s prices. At the close of the sale prices were slightly easier. Comparatively few ewes were penned. Woolly wethers made up to 535, and shorn wethers to 48s 6d; prime wethers sold on a basis of from 5M to GAd; medium quality from s.}d to 6d; prime ewes 4-}d to sd, and aged and light ewes to 4(1; woolly wethers made from 42s to 535; . extra prime heavy shorn wethers, 45s to 48s 6d; prime, 34s to 395; ewes, 27s |to 32s 6d. ! Lambs. —An entry of 1805, compared with 342 last week. There was a big [proportion of good quality lambs, but Ipennings of light unfinished sorts were

an evidence. Demand opened brightly | .for all good quality animals, and held-" [practically throughout the sale. Values: were little changed in comparison with I the higher rates ruling at last sale.' I Extra prime heavy lambs made from ; [37s to 40s; prime from 31s to 34s 6d; i medium from 27s to 28s 6d; light unfinished, from 24s 6d to 265; prime 1 , land) was bought on a basis of 9Ad and isecond quality to 9d. i Store Cattle. —A yarding of about 1150 head. Some 25 animals were medium three and four-year-old steers, 1 i while the remainder were fair sorts of {condition cows and young cattle. The [demand was rather slack, the steers [being passed at auction. Cows were unchanged. i Pigs.—A yarding of sixty-five fats and sixty-seven slips, and porkers were up rather more than 6s and baconers were also firmer, but not by so much as that amount.