LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 7, 13 February 1902, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. The Addington market yardings in most classes were smaller than those of last week. Fat Cattle.— l 92 head were yarded, Bidding was irregular, with prices easier, there being a drop of fully Is per 1001 b. Steers brought £5 I.'js to £9 15s ; heifers, £5 5s to £8 5s ; extra good, to £9 ; cows, £5 5s to £8 2s 6d , extra good, to £9 2s 6d ; or equal to from 16s 6d to 22s per 1001 b. Store Cattle —A large entry, and the lots were sold freely. There was an average entry of dairy cows. Fat Sheep —There was a smaller entry than for the past few weeks. Tho bulk consisted of fat ewes, with a few pens of prime wethers. Bidding was brisk for all lines of freezers, but fat ewes met with a dull and dragging sale, prices showing a drop of from 2s 6d to 3s per head. Wethers brought 13s 6d to 16s 5d ; maiden ewes, 14s 8d to 15s 8d ; best butchers' ewes, 10s to 13s ; inferior, 4s 6d to 8s Gd ; merino wethers, 4s 3d to Bs. Fat Lambs.— A large entry was yarded. Although prices for all lines were easier at the opening of the sale, they unproved as it progressed. Over 3500 were taken for export at 10s to 13s lid, the butchers securing about 500 at 8s to 13s 2d. Store Sheep — The entry totalled 6500, the majority being lambs, with a few pens of forward wethers and young ewes. Bidding was very dull for store lambs, but good freshconditioned wethers and good young ewes sold at rates fully up to past markets. Pigs showed a much smaller entry. Baconers and porkers sold well, but stores met with poor competition. Baconers brought 35s to 52s 6d, or about 3fd per 1b ; porkers, 22s to 295, equal to 3id to 4d ; stores, 15s to 20s ; medium kinds, lls to 14s ;

small stores and weaners, 5s 6d to 10s 6d.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS Co^^rt^Sfrowl^- 8 -' -* ?ng U ficiH a 3? llg . ht *arn^ss y holes b £ iJSt,? f dly , above the average in Klht q . uallty and n^ers. yy T he eluded « GS • ° ffered ' which in " noH h ™ consignment from the sound ? a VCry useful lot in deed, sound and active, and in every wav fion d l arm horses - mth one y excep ytion, however, they were not heavy enough for town work. There wYs nuSt r n ,T ber ° f larmers P"SSt " quest of horses for harvesting operations, and the whole of the horses cnaTeT? in , thG consi^nt abovl changed hands at quotations. Other t™V n d . rau S hts included the fol-lowing-viz., Bay colt, 4yrs, shafter, Va.o \ S; b , a / Riding, 7yrs, at &,<t^ , bay gelding, Byrs £39 • brown gelding, Byrl, at £36 ; black gelding, aged, at £31. Three very fine young, active spring-dray horses were offered, and elicitfd keen^competition, being sold as follows :— One four-year-old bay gelding at £35 10s°J% Q f ,°" r -y ear -old chestnut mare at &JU 10s ; one ftve-year-old bay gelding at £25 10s. We quots Is follows :— Superior young draught geldings, £42 to £48 ; extra good prize horses, £50 so £55 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £30 to £40 , aged do, |£22 to £28,.- upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £do ; well-matched carriage pairs £70 to £90 ; strong spring-van horses, £28 to £35 ; milkcart and butchers' order-cart horses, £18 to £25 ; tram horses, £12 to £17 • light hacks, £9 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £4 to £7.