LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 270, 15 November 1945, Page 8

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

THE WANGANUI SALE FAT SHEEP VALUES FIRM AT LATE KATES. Reporting on the Wanganui stock sale yesterday, Freeman R. Jackson I and Co. Ltd., state that fat sheep values were firm at late rates. Store sheep, ewes and lambs sold well, with a dull market lor 2-tooth ewes and wetjiers. Fat cattle comprised a light yarding of light weight second quality cow beef a shade easier than last week. Store cattle at late rates over a medium entry, n entry of P.A. bulls sold well. Store pigs, a keen sale showing a substantial rise over a light yarding. Quotations:— Sheep.—Fat woolly hoggets, 33 s lOd, 355: shorn, 255, 28s 6d; shorn ewes, 18s 20s 9d; fat and forward twotooth wethers, 255, 25s 2d; 2-tooth ewes with 110 p.c. b.f. lambs at foot, 24s 8d; fattening ewes, 11s. Cattle.—Fat ex-dairy cows, £6 ss, £7 15s; 3-year P.A. steers, £9 4s, £ll Is; forward P.A. cows, £8 11s; yearling Jersey heifers, £6 17s 6d; small, £4 17s 6d, £5; Jersey bulls, £4 10s £8 ss; 2year P.A. buffs, 21 to 2C guineas; dairy cows to £lO 10s; aairy heifers, £7, £l2. Pigs.—Choppers to £2 10s; porkers; to £3; slips, 295, 345; vveaners, 235, 275. ADDINGTON MARKET tP.A.i Christchurch, Nov. 14. With an increased yarding, and an easing in competition prices for fat cattle at Addington to-day showed a drop compared with last week, but the recent fat sheep figures were sumstantially maintained. Fat pigs also ssld well. The entry in the store sheep section was 2166, against 900 last week, and included a consignment of Chatham Island wethers and a draft of Meadowbank (Marlborough) wethers, totalling about 1000. The demand for dry sheep was up to that at the recent sales, with prices showing little change on late values, but ewes, all in wool, and lambs, dropped by from Is to Is 6d a head. The Chatham Island wethers were yarded in good condition. The best pen of Chathams sold at 30s Id, and the next draft at 29s Id. In all, there were 705 Meadowbank four and six-tooth wethers and these sold from 20s lid to 245. A pen of ewe hoggets sold for 335, and another at 32s 6d, and a small pen of shorn wether hoggets made 26s 7d. Ewes with, lambs at foot were of medium quality only, but the lambs mostly were well grown, and in good order. The highest price was 19s 2d, all counted, with inferior to 13s 3d. Fat sheep.—The yarding totalled approximately 4500 against 3500 last week, and wqre practically all shorn, with only an occasional pen of woolly ewes. The wether entry included a consignment of Chatham'lsland Romney wethers, which sold readily at satisfactory prices. AU good quality wethers sold at well up to last week's rates, and the best quality ewes also maintained recent values, but, as it the previous sales, over-fat ewes were difficult to quit. The highest price for wethers was 64s 4d. for a small pen. Others sold from 47s 7d to 59s lOd. One draft of 200 Chatham wethers sold from 35s 7d to 44s Id, averaging 40s, and others made from 30s Id to 35s 7d. A pen of four-tooth ewes sold from 39s lOd to 41s 4d. Aged ewes made up to 28s lOd.

Fat. Cattle.—An entry of 664 against 474 last week. The quality again was very mixed. Competition was on a lower level from the opening, and prices ranged from 25s to 30s a head lower than for all but the prirrtest been and this maintained last week's figures. Unfinished steers and secondary cows dropped from 25s to 30s a head. The best beef made to 62s per lOOlbs, good 58s, medium 555, best cow beef to 455; secondary to 345. Extra prime steers made £24 to £29 17s 6d: prime, £2O 10s to £23; extra prime heifers, to £l9; prime, £l4 15s to £l6 16s, extra prime cows co £l7prime, £l2 to £l3 10s.

Fat Pigs.—For porkers the competition was very sound and all classes ‘•old at test week’s good lutes. The bacon sect.-n yarding was the largest or several months, and included a’big Percentage of heavy weights. Competition c’ er the opening stages was exceptionally keen, but eased slightly over the Ja.t two races. The a-etage price per lb. was Si'd to 9Jd.