HEAVY ENTRIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 20 January 1938, Page 5

HEAVY ENTRIES.

ADDINGTON sFOCK MARKET. PRICKS EASIER. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 19. Exceptionally heavy entries were the rule at to day’s Adddington market, and as a result' there was a general casing. Fat sheep was the section most affected. Store sheep.—About 10,000 were penned, 80 per cent, being wether lambs. The best of these sold well at 18s to 19s 9d, medium 16s to 17s 6d, small and poor conditioned 13s to 14s 6d: adult wethers, 23s to 265. Ewo lambs sold poorly at 21s 6d, this being the best price for a quality pen. Only a few pens of ewes wore forward. Fat lambs.—A small entry of 1300 head, which sold at the lowered export rate of 72d a lb for the best.

Fat sheep.—An over-supply, the entry consisting of 7500 head. Wethers were down by 2s 6d a head, big ewes by 3s 6d and export ewes by as much ns Is 6d. Company buyers bought heavily. Best wethers sold from 31s 6d to 34s 6d, few tops to 375, good 27s 6d to 30s, light down to 245; best ewes 21s to 235, few to 24s 6d, medium to good 18s 6d do 20s 6d, light down to 15s. ....

Fat cattle. —-555 were penned, of indifferent quality. Values were down by 20s to 25s a head, the pennning constituting an over-supply. Best beef brought 34s to 36s a 1001 b., in some cases to 37s 6d. Good sters sold at £l4 10» to £l6 7s 6d, prime medium £l2 10s to £l4, light down to £9; best cows and heifers, to £ll 7s 6d ; medium heifers, £8 to £9 10s, light down to £7; secondary cows down to £5 15s. Fat pigs.—Pnces eased for both porkers and baroners. Porkers made from 32s 6d to 51s 6d, an average price a lb of 6d to 6sd. Baconcrs made 54s 6d to £3 11s 6d, an average price a lb. of 5d to 6id. Store pigs.—A heavy entry and a good sale. Weaners realised 14s to 20s, slips 21s to 235, stores 27s to 36s 6d.

JOHNS ON VILLE VALUES. A small yarding of cattle and an averncfc yardimr of sheep came forward -at the Johnsonvillc sale yesterda3 r . The bulloc-k pens consisted chiefly of medium-weight and heavyweight bullocks, with a few pens of lightweight quality cattle. Extra heavy bullocks met with a'good sale, with prices firm on last week’s, while lightweight and medium-weight cattle showed an easing tendency. Owing to a shortage of railway trucks no cows and heifers catne forward. Owing to the inferior quality of runners and vealers, these mot with little demand, with prices easier to the extent of 5s per head on last week’s. The yarding of wethers was of good quality. Extra prime heavy wethers met with keen competition, with prices showing no alteration, while prime medium-weight sheep were slightly firmer. Fvfra prime quality hoggets sold readily. There was little demand, for extra heavv ewes, while medium-weight and lightweight sheep met with a good sale with prices slightlv above those ruling for cvnort. Tim Yarding- of lambs was of indifferent quality. Onlv a few pens of fine quality lambs came forward, the balance of the yarding consisting of lightweight and unfinished sorts, with a few pens of lnrnbs just on the border of being killablp These quality lambs met with a ready sale at prices Is to Is 6d above fho c e ruling for expert- while lower erado lambs were be>-d to sell even i*t prices not above those rnlinsr for store. The nrice ranee was as follow^Prime extra heavy bullocks, £ls to .£l4 8s 6d; prime heavy bullocks. £]4 Pc tr. £l3 18s; boavv bullocks. £l4 15s to £l3 ss; li?ht and unfinished bullocks,. £l3 to £ll 18s; runners. £3 Is to £2; vealers. £2 to £1 7s 6d. Prime extra heavy wethers, 28s to 26s 9d: prime heavy wethers. 27s to 26s 3d; medium wethers, 25s 10d to 255; prime extra heavy ewes. 20s 7d to 19s 3d; prime heavy ewes, 19s to tgs Id; medium ewes, 17s. to 15s; heavv •’no-trets. 26= 6d to 24s • lipht linirgeK 23s fid to 22s Id ;■ heavy spring lambs. 26s to 23s lOd; spring lambs, 23s 6d to 29 c : light 1-mlis. £1 to 18s 6d ; light and unfinished, 17s to 15s lOd.

PAHIATUA OFFERINGS. PAHIATUA, Jan. 19. At the Pahiatua stock sale yesterday There were seve-al pons of very attractive* lambs, for which there, was £ood competition, and prices, in view of the prevailing conditions, were lip to, vendors’ expectations Prices were’ as follows: —Pest. «hnrn w.f.w. lambs, lbs 4d, 15s 9d. 15s 2d. 14s sd; medium shorn w.f.w. lambs,’ 13s 4d, 13s 3d; b.f. lamlw. best-. 17*. 35s 3d, 16s 6d; owe lambs, good, 25s 6d, 25s 3d; shorn, 21s Sd; medium woolly. 21s Id, 17s 7d, 17s; medium shorn. 16s 6d: cull wonlly owe lambs. l&i 7d: cull m.s. shorn lambs, mostly wethers. 7s 9d to 11s Id; cull woolly wether lambs, 9s Id to 9j 3d; fat wethers, 255.

LEVIN SALE. LEVIN, Jan. 19. The weekly slock sale was held at the Levin yards’ yesterday, when there were good yardings of pigs and cattle, together with a full entry of lambs. Prices for pigs and fat cattle showed a very slight easing. Store sheep were cleared at full late rates, while the sale was an excellent one for all classes of lambs. Realisations were as follow: —Pigs: Light porkers, 27s to 34s 6d; medium, 35s to 39s 6d ; heavy. £2 to £2 10s; baconers, £2 11s to £2 15s; choppers, £2 11s; sows to farrow, £3 10s; weaners, 8s 6d to 14s; slips, 18s to 21s; stores. 26s 6d to 295.' Sheep: Eat hoggets, 21s 3d: fat ewes, 15s 6d to 18s 9d;’ fat lambs, 16s 9d to 265; fat wethers, 23s 6d; shorn wether lambs, 9s 7d to 13s Id - woolly wether lambs, 15s 9d; ewe lambs. 13s 6d; b.f. lambs. 17s 7d; store wether lambs, 17s lo 17s 3d; store owes, 13s 6d to 14s. Oattle ; : Light fat cows, £4 10“ to £5 ; medium,’; £5 5s to £5 15s; heavy, £6 to £8 7s 6d; s.mall vealers, 25s to 355; medium, £2 to £2 103; runners, £3 to £4 4s; store cows, £2 to'£3 15s; potter bulls, £4 5s to £5; heavy, £6 to £9; weaner Jersey heifers, 335. STORTFORD LODGE SALE. HASTINGS, Jan. 19. Tliore were smaller entries in all classes at the stortford ’ Lodge live stock sale to-day. Quality generally was lacking, and consequently values showed a decline. The fat cattle yarding was mainly cows, with a small sprinkling of heifers. There was no finished ox beef. Better aorts or cows madeto 25s a 1001 b, medium 20s. The fat sheep yarding was small, and contained very few welhers. The yarding of store sheep was only 7000, against 20.000 last week, hut despite the smaller yarding values showed a decided easing, and several lines of good t W o-tooths sold

at 19s to 20s 9d. Woolly ewe lambs were hard to sell at 225, and best Down cross lambs at 17s 9d. The top price for storo sheep was 24s 3d, for an exceptional line of wethers from Waiwharo station. No store cattle were yarded. Some of the realisations were

Fat catle. —Medium-framed Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross heifers, prime finished, £8 19s; four medium-grown prime finished Aberdeen Angus heifers, £8 7s 6d; five well-bred medium to heavy Aberdeen Angus heifers, £8 18s; further entry ot similar bred heifers, £9 2s 6d for the heaviest; Aberdeen Angus and Hereford co\ys, carrying a lot of condition, to £7 10s; Shorthorn cross aged cows, unfinished and plain, to £6 4s; pen of miscellaneous sorts, aged and lacking quality, £4 15s to £6; pen of 18-montli-old runners, good condition, to £5 ss. Fat sheep.—Wethers, to 255; ewes, 17s to 19s 8d; lambs, to 235. Store sheep. — Line of 178 medium-grown Down cross rape lambs, good store condition, 17s 9J; entry of 220 shorn medium to well-grown white-faced wether lambs, 14s; 200 wethers, fat and forward order, 24s 3d; 321 mixed age wethers, second cut out of this draft, 22s sd; Cape Kidnappers country, 205 early shorn small to medium-grown two-tooth wethers, 20s 3d; draft of small grovvn white-faced ewe lambs, light order, 19s; 141 early shorn medium-framed wethers, forward condition, 22s 3d; off high country, 265 small-grown white-faced woolly ewe lainbe, light and hard condition, 14s 7d; pen of 177 early shorn two-tooth wethers, 13s 7d; 147 woolly white-faced wether lambs, incdium-giown, in light condition, 15s.