LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 219, 16 September 1943, Page 6

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

THE WANGANUI SALE The heaviest yarding of fat sheep in months was recorded at the Wanganui stock sale held yesterday, state Messrs. Freeman R. Jackson and Co. in their report. All were of good prime quality. Considering the heavy yarding, prices did not ease as much as expected. In a yarding of 2500 store sheep there was little demand for hoggets and passings were heavy. An excellent yarding of prime cows and heifers came forward and good values were registered, being the highest prices fo„' the winter. There was a dull sale for store cattle. In the pig section weaners sold at last week’s rates. Quotations: — Cattle. —Prime Hereford and P.A. cows and heifers, £l2 17s 6d, £l4 Is; prime ex dairy cows, £9, £lO ss; fat, £6 15s, £7 15s; light, £4 10s, £6 ss; boner cows, i2 ss. £3 7s 6d; crossbred steers, £5 10s; small yearling P.A. steers, £4 10; pedigree Jersey cow, springing heifers, £5 10s, £8 15s; cows £5, £6 10s. Sheep.—Fat wethers, 355, 37s 3d; light, 325, 345; prime ewes, 25s 6d, 26s 3d; average, 235, 255; light 19s 6d, 21s; fat hoggets, 245, 275; light, 225, 23s 6d; 4-tooth wethers, 28s 3d; wether hoggets, good to 24s 3d; medium. 16s lOd; average ewe hoggets, 24s 6d. Pigs.—Weaner pigs, 25s 30s; small, 17s, 225. Vealers. —Vealers, £3, £3 15s; 2-year heifers, £7 15s, £8 2s 6d.

VALUES AT ADDINGTON

(PA.) Christchurch, Sept. 15. Fat cattle came forward in larger numbers than last week at to-day s sale at Addington, and prices showed a drop on the high level reached a week ago. The fat sheep entry included several lines from southern districts, and with a keen demand prices showed a substantial increase in both sections. Porkers and baconers both maintained recent rates. Store Sheep.—An entry of 1180, against 570 last week. The quality was very poor, and with a small attendance competition was dragging except for best ewes and lambs, these selling 'from 10s 6d to 18s 6d. all counted. A pen of 80 ewe hoggets made 31s 9d, and another of 76 made 28s. Wether hoggets sold to 26s 2d. Breeding ewes forward were very poor in condition, the best price being 24s 6d for a line of four and sixtooths in lamb to Southdown rams, others making from 14s to 19s 6d. A line of 200 aged half-bred wethers realised 23s 2d.

Fat Sheep.—An entry of 3500, about the same as last week. Several lines came from southern districts and from Southland, and home high-class sheep were penned. Prices for both ewes and wethers showed an advance of up to 3s a head, and for medium sheep the rise was higher. The best price for ewes was 50s Id for a pen of southern 4 and! 6-tooths, and another line of similar sheep made from 39s Id to 48s lOd. In the wether section the highest figure was 60s 7d for a pen from Temuka, a second pen making 53s 7d. Other lines sold from 51s lOd to 59s Id, and from 55s lOd to 58s lOd. A line of 50 shorn wethers sold from 37s Id to 42s 7d. , ,

Fat Cattle.—The high prices at last week’s sale brought cattle forward from a wide radius, the total entry being 580, compared with 370 last week. With the ample supply the market opened at a sharp drop, the first few pens being down by about £.3 a head, but they recovered.during the middle stages when p*ces were stabilised at from 25s to '3os a head below last week. Best beef made from 59s to 63s per 1001 b., good beef 54s to 58s; ordinary to medium, 44s to 50s. Best heifer beef made to 60s, good to 535, ordinary to 425. Best cow beef made 455, medium to 40s, inferior 365.

Fat Pigs.—The yarding of porkers was a good one but the quality was very mixed. All of the best classes were keenly competed for at schedule rates, while plain and unfinished types were mostly bought by bacon fattened. The chopper yarding was the heaviest for some time, but although values were barely up to last week’s rates a very sound market was maintained. The baconer yarding was the largest so far this season. Here again, although competition was brisk, values were easier by from 4s to 5s a head, the average price being 8d to 91d per lb.