ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10, 9 March 1905, Page 13

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

There was a good attendance at Addington yards and fair entries in all sections. Fat Oattle.— The entry was 179 head, mostly fair to priime steters. There was a slight improvement in the market, an/d most of the stock was cleared. Steers sold at £6/5/- to £9/12/6 ; heifers, £5/15/- to £7/10/; cows, £5/5/- to £7/5/-. Beef was wortji 16/- to 21/per 100 Yb. Fat Calves.— A fair entry sold at 7/6 to £2/10/-, values 1 being firm. Store Cattle.— The entry was small, and the demand was no better than of late. Values are shown by the following quotations :— Yearlings, 20/- ; 15 tio 18 months' old, ao/- to 59/- ; two-year-old steers, £4/10/; two-year-old heifers, £3/5/- to £3/10/- ; three-year-old steers, passed at £5/12/6 ; three-year-old heifers, £4/9/6 ; dry cows, 30/- to £4/10/-.

Dairy Cows.— There was a large yarding. Good springing cows and heifers met with fair inquiry, but aged and inferior animals were difficult of sale. Piices ranged from £4/s'/- to £8. Fat Sheep .—The entry was of moderate dimensions, and consisted mainly of wethers, including some station lines, which were keenly competed for by exporters. Butchers' joined issue with exporters for tiie ordinary supply, with the result of a very bfuoyant sale at firm rates for wethers and an advance of quite one sfcillnng on #ooa ewes. The absence of aged ewes is very noticeable at this season. s markets, ihe range of price was . For prime wethers, 22/6 to 25/ a ; lighter, from 20/- to 22/. ; prime iheavy ewes 21/- to 23/3 ; good, 18/- to 20/6 ; agea, 16/6 to 11/6, prime merino wethers, 19/3 to 21/-. Fat Lambs.— About 3000 were penned. The quality generally was goal, but many of the primest lots n,ow come into the " leg " grade. There was good competition by both butchers and exporters, and prices were steady. Curront values were : For tegs, 18/6 t 0 20/3 ; freezers, 16/- to 18/3 ; lighter sorts, from 15/-. Store Sheep and Lambs.— T/he entry was not so large as at the last two or three markets. Competition was extremely keen, and prices made a further advance of 1/-. Ewes sold up to 25/9 for a line of six-tooth crossbreds, with about 25 per cent, older sheep, from Mr W. C. Flemiing, Port Levy. Good young ewes generally commanded from 23/- to 24/6 ; lines of moderate bleeding and condition, 21/- k> 22/6, good sound-mouthed ewes, 21/- to 22/9 ; moderate 18/to 20/-; aged, 11/- t o 17/6; culls, from 11/-; good forward wethers made from 18 1 /- to 19/7 ; fair condition, 17/- to 18/ ; backward and culls, 15/- to 16/9. A line of North Island shorn lambs, very mixed in size arid condition, made 16/7 ; forward lineal, 15/- to 16/- ; backward to fair condition, 13/- to 15/-. Pigs.— Tnere was a good entry of fat pigs, which met with an active demand, prices advancing 3/- to 4/a 'head, best, baconors selling at the rate of 4d to 4^d; heavy weights, to 3|d ; and porkers, sa" to s^d per lh\ airtd some pens even higher. Stores were a small entry' and tihere was a dull sale.