ADPINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1544, 28 April 1887, Page 3

ADPINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET

»■ '. The Addlngton market yesterday waß fairly attended, and there was generally a better feeling m the trade. Cattle. — There was a small supply of fat cattle, especially of good quality, and the demand being fairly active, there was an improvement notioeable m the prices of prime lines. Ordinary and inferior qualities, however, showed littlg change We quote prime beef 18i per 1001 b ; middling to fair, 15 j to 16s 6d ; inferior, 13a to 143. Good steers Bold from £6 to £7 7b 6d, the top price being for a very nice line from North Canterbury, another capita] line of 23 head from the same district being plaoad at £6 ss. The best heifers brought from £6 to £6 10i. A large proportion of the cattle yarded were light and half-fat and sold at £3 upwards. Very few store cattle were en.ered, and the demand being still extremely weak, translations were limitel to odd lots at low pi ices, Good, wo'l-bred dairy cows continued to attraot attention, and brought full prices, but indifferent sorta were noglectod. Springers within a week or co of oalviug sold at £6 to £8 10j, but those not co near the time are not wanted. ►Sheep. — The numbers penned again thowed a reduction towards an average supply, but the quality was better than haß been usual lately. There was an active demand for the best crossbred wethers for export, and butchers also bid freely, co that a rise of Is to Is 61 was obtained on this description. Good Bheep of lighter weights shared proportionately m the advance, a West Coast buyer giving strength to the demand for thetso ; and old sheep were alao the turn against buyers. Prime mutton maybe quoted at lfi per lb ; middling, Id to ljd. An altogether exceptional line of crossbred ewes brought the high average of 10a 6d, one pen bringing 13j 3J v the top price of the day, with the excep ion of a siogle wether, which brought 13j 6d. Prime cross-bred wethers (freezers, Bold at 9s to lls 6d ; lighter weights, 7s to 8< 6d; prime ewes, freezira), 8a to 10a 6d; l'ghter 5s to 7s. Iv merinos a Euperior Hue of wetherß brought 6s 3d ; good wethers, 3s 6d to 4s lid ; mixed lines, 2a 6d to 3s 6d. Fat lainrs again met a dragging sa'e, the season being about over. The heat pens brought from 43 to ss, and everything not up to this standard brought only the price of stores. "Boil-ing-down" sheep were less numerous, and bot of such inferiority aa was the case at the beginning of the season. Merino culls le 3d to Is 9d, and croßßbreds 2j to 3s ; but a great many ewes, net past breeding, are being bought for boiling down fit prices considerably above these quotations. Store sheep sold fairly well at about late values, Crossbred ewes and wethers, 2-tooth, sold at 4s and 3i lOd ; 2 and 4-tooth ewes, 4s Id ; ewes aad wethers 4s ; ewes m lamb mixed ages, 5s 4d ; full-mouthed ewes, 2s lid ; merino ewes, 2s sd ; longvrooled lambs, 3i sd. Pigs, —A fair supply came forward, Including a good proportion of baconers. The sale was mere spirited than last week's, the curers being about to begin the season's work. Bicon pigs sold ai 25s to 37a 6d ; porkers, 15a to 22a ; stores from 10b to 18s.