CATTLE RATES DOWN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20060, 5 October 1939, Page 10

CATTLE RATES DOWN

SHEEP PRICES RISE INCREASED ENTRIES ADDINGTON VALUES (For PreS3 Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Entries at the Addington stock sale yesterday showed an increase. Fat cattle eased in value by up to 20s a head on the high rates recently ruling. Fat sheep, on the other hand, showed an increase. Store sheep of better class came forward. Good, strong-woolled ewe hoggets made to 28s 6d, the best ewes and lambs from 11s 6d to 12s Gd, all counted, and wether hoggets from 14s to 18s 3d. Seventy spring lambs averaged from lOd to Is per lb. In the fat sheep section 4000 were penned, an increase of 500 on last week. The sale was firmer from the outset, and prices were higher than the average of last week by 2s Gd a head, the sale being one of the best of the season. Prime wethers sold from 42s to 455, with tops from 48s to 51s Gd; good medium-weights from 35s to 40s, and light down to 265. The best ewes made 34s to 38s, with tops from 40s to 445, medium prime 29s to 38s, and inferior down to 21s. The first shorn sheep of the season were forward. In the fat cattle section there was an increased entry, the total being 447 head. West Coast and Otago truck lots and others from South Canterbury assisted to make a better quality yarding. The market eased on + he recent high rates by up to 20s a head. Prime beef made from £l9 to £23, with several pens of tops from £24 to £26 7s 6d; prime medium-weight down to £ls, and ordinary from £l3 to £ls 10s. The best of the heifers sold from £l4 to £l6 10s, and cows from £l2 to £l4. Porkers sold unevenly, but at little change, and baconers sold spiritedly. Porkers made from £2 7s 6d to £3 6s 6d, the average price being 7£d to 8?d per lb., and baconers £3 8s 6d to £5 14s 6d, the average being 7d to 8d per lb.