LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 250, 21 October 1937, Page 11

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

THE WANGANUI SALE FAT EWES EASIER At their weekly Wanganui stock sale yesterday, Freeman R. Jackson and Co., Ltd., offered an average yarding in all sections. Fat ewes were easier by about 2s a head for wolly and Is a head for shorn. Fat cattle recovered the drop of the previous week. Store hoggets sold well but there was little enquiry for store cattle, which comprised mostly yearling steers and heifers. Both store and fat pigs sold readily firm at last week's high values and a small entry of vealers sold in the favour of sellers. The range of prices was as follows: Sheep.—Prime woolly b.f. 4-tooth ewes, 345, 34s 6d; fat ewes, 795; b.f. light, 275, 28s 6d; shorn, 20s 4d, 21s; extra prime woolly hoggets to 355, fat, 26s 9d, 28s; shorn, 23s 9d, 26s 3d, shorn wethers, 26s 9d, 275; wether hoggets, 26s lOd, 295; small, 23s 9d, 24s 8d; shorn, 225. Cattle.—Light bullocks, £lO 7s; prime P.A. cows, £9 ss, £ll 12s 6d; fat cows, £7. £9 2s 6d; light, £5 10s, £6 7s 6d; boner cows, £2 10s, £3 10s, yearling Holstein steers, £5; heifers, crossbred, £1 10s, £2 18s; yearling Jersey Bulls, £3, £8 8s; 2-year to £5 17s 6d; aged, £4; springing heifers, good, £7, £7 15s; backward, £3 10s, £5; aged cows in milk, £3 10s, £5. Pigs.—Light baconers, £3 Is, £3 ss; heavy porkers, £2 10s, £3; average, A2, £2 10s; light, 325, £2; big stores to £2 9s 6d; average, 275, 30s; weaners, good, 235, 25s 6d; average, 18s, 225; small, 13s, 16s 6d; sows and litters, £3, £5. Vealers.—Light vealers, £3 Bs, £4; calves, 255, £2 9s. THE WESTFIELD SALE BEEF VALLES FIRM [ Per Press Association. ] AUCKLAND, Oct. 20. For the ninth successive week beet values were quoted firm to 41s per 1001 b. at Westfield to-day. Ox quality was sound, but the bulk of the cow entry included plain and unfinished grades, for which prices were slightly easier. Extra choice ox sold at 41 per 1001 b., choice and prime, 37s to 40s; unfinished, 31s to 365; prime cow and heifer beef, 37s to 40s; unfinished, 26s to 365. Extra heavy steers ranged from £l6 to £l7 17s 6d; heavy, £l5 10s to £l7; medium, £l3 10s to £l5 17s 6d; light, £ll 12s 6d to £l3 15s; unfinished, £8 12s 6d to £ll 10s; extra heavy cows and heifers, £lO 5s to £l3 10s; heavy, £8 17s 6d to £ll 15s; medium, £7 5s to £9 15s; light, £5 to £8 10s; unfinished, £2 10s to £4 10s.

Sheep supplies improved considerably although quality was again at a premium. Prices dropped in heavy sheep about Is 6d to 3s a head. Hoggets and spring lambs were firm. Extra heavy woolly wethers, 37s to 40s; heavy, 34s to 375; medium, 32s to 34s 6d; light, 30s to 33s 6d; unlinished, 26s to 29s 6d; heavy shorn, 31s to 335; medium, 27s to 31s; light, 26s to 28s; unfinished, 24s to 26s 6d; heavy woolly ewes, 33s to 35s 6d; medium, 30s to 32s 6d; light, 25s 6d to 29s 6d; unfinished, 7s to 20s; heavy shorn ewes, 22s 6d to 25s 6d; medium, 21s to 23s 6d; light and unfinished, 18s 6d to 21s; prime woolly hoggets, 22s to 375; unfinished, 15s to 21s 6d; spring lambs, 22s to 375. In consequence of an extra large yarding of calves, there was a slackness in demand and prices in practically all classes eased by about 5s a head. Runners, £3 5s to £9 15s; heavy vealers, £5 to £6 3s; medium, £4 os to £4 19s; light, £3 5s to £4 4s; smaller, £2 4s to £3 4s; unfinished, 15s to 40s; rough, 15s to 255; bobby, 6s to 15s. A heavy supply of pigs included good quaiity and a steady sale resulted in firm rates being obtained for all sorts. Choppers, £2 5s to• £6 15s; heavy baconers, £4 6s to £4 1-s, medium, £3 15s to £4; l‘g h^ o SS A° 10s; heavy porkers, £2 18s to £33% medium, £2 9s to £2 14s; light, £2 2s to £2 6s; smaller, £1 16s to £2, stores, £1 8s to £2 2s; slips, £1 2s to £1 14s, weaners. Ils to 255; baconers averaged 6id to 6Sd a lb. and porkers 7d.

VALUES AT ADDINGTON STORE SHEEP SLIGHTLY EASIER r Per Press Association. ] CHRISTCHURCH, Oct. 20. There were smaller entries at today’s Addington market. Values were well maintained in all sections except store Sheep, where there was an easing for old ewes and their lambs and £ °Sto?e S Sheep.-A line of close on 900 shorn Romney hoggets from the Chatham Islands were a feature of the store market and these sold from 23s to 26s for all except a pen of 80 odd Good ewes and lambs made an even 20s but old sorts ranged about 12s to 14s. Spring Lambs.—Moderate quality was forward and sold up to about 10-ld per lb. Fat Sheep.—A smaller entry of 4000 head. All shorn sheep sold well. Wethers to 36s 4(1, ewes to 33s lOcl. Most wethers forward were shorn and better sorts sold from 28s to 335; woolly ewes from 35s to 445; medium woolly 31s to 345. Fat Cattle.—4lo were penned. There was a good sale, particularly for light bodies, heavy being a shade easier. Much of the best beef ranged round about 40s and in cases to 435. Good 36s 6d to 395. Top price for steers was £2O 2s 6d, cows £l6 2s. Good prime steers made from £l5 to £l7, prime light to medium weights £l3 to £l4 15s, good cow's £lO to £ll 10s, good heifers £lO 15s to £l2 ss, rough cows down to £5 ss. Vealers.—A good sale for prime vealers, big plain runners being easier.

Store Cattle.—A small entry met with a keen sale, two-year steers making to £5 Is and fattening cows from £5 10s to £6. Fat Pigs.—An average entry, prices being well maintained. Porkers 38s 6d to £3 7s 6d; average price per lb 7id to Bd. Baconers £3 6s 6d to £5 12s 6d; average price per lb 7id to Bd.

Store Pigs.—Young pigs were in brisk demand. Weaners 16s to 235, slips 24s to 265, stores 28s to 395, sows in pig £3 10s to £5 10s.