LIVE STOCK SALES

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 43, 14 November 1940, Page 3

LIVE STOCK SALES

Store Cattle Cheaper At Stortford Lodge BEEF PRICES ADVANCE Dominion Special Service. HASTINGS, November 13. Lower prices, which could be accounted for by lack of quality and size, were secured for the offering of store cattle at the Stortford Lodge sale today. Good three-year A.A. steers made f9/5/-, _twoyear A.A. steers in good; order £7/1/-. and others, small, in medium order, and off high country, £5 to £5/12/6. AA ellbred medium-grown yearling A.A. steers made £5 to £5/2/-; small-grown light Herefords realizing £l. Three-year A.A. heifers, well done, brought £7/10/;, twoyear heifers in similar order £5/17/-, others, small and light, making £4 to £-1 4/-. There was a short yarding of fat cattle, with an absence of ox beef, and as a result prices advanced 10/; a head. Host of the heifer pens were in light prime tinish and well suited to summer , trade, the best pens averaging about 34/-, a hundred pounds. Dairy cattle, whicli were chiefly rough sorts, sold well to £5/10/-. An active market prevailed for store sheep, wethers being 1/- a head and more dearer. Very forward two-tootbs brought 21/1, others in good order 19/7 to 20/1, and lighter 18/10, with tailends selling at 15/-. The market was tested for the new season's two-tooth ewes when a line in sound hardy order made a good sale at 27/-, with a second cut selling at 23/9. ' Good mixed-age ewes, with very forward Down-cross lambs, brought _*-0/6, all counted. Aged light ewes with lambs brought 16/9. Burnside (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, November 13. A poor demand saw cattle prices drop back at Burnside stock sale today in spite of a smaller yarding than usual. Eat cattle: There was a medium yarding of 256 bead. The bulk of the yarding was of prime medium quality. Cows were in over-supply, while heifers were short. Extra heavy bullocks made to £2l/17/6; prime heavy bullocks, £li/<A» to £lB/7/6; prime medium bullocks, £lo 2/6 to £l6/12/6; medium and light bullocks, £ll to £l3/2/6; prime heifers, to £l4/7/6; medium heifers, £lO/2/6 to £ll 7/6; light, from £7/12/6 to £‘J/10/6; prime heavy cows, £ll/12/6 to £l3/l-/6; medium cows, £B/2/6 to £9/o/-; light and unfinished, from £6/10/-. « There was a medium yardlug of -00 head of store cattle. A liue of stationbred realized up to £ll/17/6, a line ot SO head averaging £9/6/-. The market can be quoted as firm for well-bred bullocks, other sorts making full market rates. Good three and four-year-old steers brought to £ll/17/6; three-year steers, to £lO/10/-; two-year steers, to £ 7/16/-. ~ , Eighty-five store pigs sold under good competition, late rates being maintained. A yarding of 27 dairy cows was forward. Eor good sorts, just calved or at profit, there was a keen demand at prices up to £ll/10/-. Late calvers were diflicult to sell and older and inferior sorts were not wanted. _ In the sheep pens 1550 were yarded, the bulk being made up of ewes, with a larger percentage of wethers than the previous week. The quality of the ewe yarding on the whole was good. Hie wethers contained several pens of aged and lighter sorts. The market. opened a shade under last week’s rates, improving with the aid of outside competition to the extent of 2/- a head for all classes of sheep. Hoggets were not in the same demand and showed a drop on previous sales. Prime heavy woolly wethers realized to 43/-; prime woolly wethers, 09/to 41/-; medium and light woolly wethers, 35/- to 37/-; prime heavy shorn wethers, to 3 9/9; prime shorn wethers, 35/- to 37/-; medium shorn ers, 26/- to 28/-; prime heavy young woollv ewes, to 44/-; prime woolly ewes, 36/- to 37/6; medium woolly ewes, 32/to 33/6; light woolly ewes, 21/6 to 23/6; prime heavy shorn ewes, to 06/-; prime shorn ewes, 29/- to 31/-; medium shorn ewes, 25/6 t0«27/-; light, from IS/-. Lambs: Two hundred and forty were penned. Quality was good, with only a sprinkling of medium and unfinished lambs. Best lambs made to 31/-; prime lambs 25/- to 27/-; medium, to 23/b; light, *l9/- to 21/-. Over 170 fat pigs came forward. Buconors and heavy porkers were in evidence. Best baconers made to £5/10/-; heavy baconers, to £4/10/-; best porkers, £•-> 15/-. Westfield (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 13. Cow and heifer beef sold more cheaply st the Westfield fat.stock sales today, ox beef selling firmly. Extra choice ox beef made 39/- aTOOIb., and prime 35/lo 38/-; ordinary, 32/- to 34/-; prime cow and heifer, 30/- to 34/-; boner and rough, 22/- to 26/-. Extra heavy prime steers brought £l4/10/- to £l5; heavy, £l3/10/- to £l4; medium, £l2/15/- to £l3/5/-; light. £ll/15/- to £l2/10/-; unfinished.‘£7/5/- to £11; extra heavy prime cows and heifers, £lO to £JI/i/b; beavv £8 to £9/5/-; medium, £6/10/- to £7/10/-; others, £4/10/- to £6. Fewer sheep came forward and late rales were maintained. , Extra heavy jirime wethers sold for 34/- to, 35/6; heavy, 32/- to 33/-; medium, 30/- to 31/6 /light, 27/- to 28/6; unfinished, 20/to 25/6; extra heavy prime ewes, 22/6 to 26/6; heavy, 20/- to 21/-; medium, 18/- to 19/-; others, 4/- to 17/-. Lambs were again a heavier yarding and sold more cheaply, prices ranging from 17/6 to 30/3. Pirm values ruled for calves. Klinners made £5/10/-i to £lO/15/-; heavy vealers, £7 to £B/6/-; medium, £5/10/to £6/10/-; light, £4 to £-j/t>/- ; small and unfinished, £1 to £5/10/-; bobbj, 5/- to IS/-. S pirited bidding kept prices for an average pig entry at last _week’s levels. Choppers sold for £3 to £5/12/-; heavy baconers. £4/10/- to £4/15/-; medium. £l/4/- to £4/7/-; light, to £o 4/-; heavy porkers. to £4; medium. £3/10/- to £3/14/-; light and small, £2/10/- to £3/4/-: stores. £2/8/10 £2/17/-; slips. £l/10/- to £2/6/-, weaners, 18/- to 36/-. Wanganui Dominion Special Service. WANGANUI, November 13. A medium entry of fat .sh<X*n sold firmly at the Wanganui stock sale today. Fat 'cattle were in average supply and prices were fully firm on late rates. Ibe store cattle were mpstly young steers, and they met a good. sale, with a total cleatance. Only oddments of dairy cattle came forward and they tsold’ at reduced tales. Prs bad a £ood- entry jji all sections and they met an excellent sale under keen competition, particularly for porkers and baconers. Prices:— ~n / . Sheep: lat shorn ewes 18/< t" wethers 22/7 to 27/-; fat woolly hoggets 30/- to 31/3, shorn 23/- to 26/8; ewe hotels 31/-; two-tooth wethers 18/6. Cattle: Eat bullocks £l2/3/-; fat runbred cows £B/10/- to £9/17; prime ex dairy cows £6/12/6 to £i/10/-, _f.it £4 to £5/15/-; two-year s-h. steers £6 to £6 5/-- yearling steers £4/la/O to £6, dairy rows £5 to £6/10/-; vealers £2/5/- to £2 '/figs: Baconers £3/,»/- to £3/16/-1 Jieavv porkers £2/15/- to Wo z?l /’’t’ l f., 18/6 to £2/12/-: choppers L./11/- to £3 13/-; sows to farrow £3/17/6: stores 32/- to 40/-. small 26/- to 30/-:, slips and weaners 21/- to 26/-. small J-/- to IS/-. Pahiatua Dominion Special Service. PAHIATUA, November 13. A fair offering of station cattle, sheep ami pigs was submitted at this weeks Pahiatua stock sale. Cattle prices were not up to expectations, mid quite a number of pens failed to meet vendors’ idea of reserve and were passed in. Quotations: — Cattle: P.A. bullocks. £9 to AB///G; three-year steers, £7/10/- to £6/lt>/-, two-year steers, £6 to £4/15/-; yearling

steers £4/1/- to £3/10/-; two-year heifers, .10/- to £4/10/-; yearling heifers, £3 10/- to £2/15/-; store cows, ex dairy, £4/15/- to £3/15/-. Sheep: Two-tooth wethers, 23/- Io 18/-; b.f. two-tooths, good, 23/- to 22/9; fat wethers, 26/6 to 24/6; fat. ewes. 17/to 15/6; wether hoggels, 21/- to 22/6: ewe hoggets, 32/- to 29/9; ewes and lambs, all counted, 18/-. Pigs: Weanow, good, 32/- to 27/6; small, 24/6 to 21/-.