THE STOCK MARKET.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 14

THE STOCK MARKET.

> ADDINGTON SALE. SHEEP VALUES RISE. Per Press Association. CllßlSi CHURCH, Sept. 18. A small entity of store sheep at Addington to-day met with keen competition, with values fully up to recent rates. Hoggets sold particularly well. Thero was a lat sheep entry of 3000 of mixed quality. They met with a strong demand, with prices 2s a head above last week. Prime heavy wethers made 4?s to 545; medium wethers, 39s to 46s 6d; prime ewes, 40s to 525; ordinary ewes, 30s to 39s 6d. ihe fat cattle entry was 388. There was a keen sale for best beef. Values were fully firm. Plain sorts made a slower inquiry. Good beef made 52s 6d per 1001 b.; best. 57s 7d; primo heavy steers, £lB 10s to £25 7s 6d; medium. £ll 10s to £18; best heifers, £l4 to £2l 7s 6d; others to £l3 10s; best cows, £ll to £l7 12s 6d; others, to £lO. Thero was a large yarding of porkers. Values eased 3s to 4s. For a big yarding of baconers there was a weaker sale. Pork averaged 8d to 9id; bacon, 7|d to. Bd. PAIIIATUA QUOTATIONS. Prices at this week’s Pahialua sale were: —Fat ewes, 30s to 23s 6d; lat wethers, 365; dairy heifers, close to profit (good), £l3 2s 6d to £l2 10s; dairy cows, £lO to £8 10s; weuner Jersey heifers (backward), £4 2s; weancr pigs, 29s 6d, 27s 6d, 26s 6d to 22s 6d; stores, 38s; halfdraught 3-yr. filly, £l6; 2-yr, filly, £lO 10s. STORTFORD LODGE. HASTINGS. Sept. 18. Beef cattle prices showed little alteration on those of last week at the Stortford Lodge sale. Exceptionally heavy well-bred Shorthorn bullocks from the Manawatu ranged from £lB 7s 6d to £2O 17s 6d. medium-weight bullocks made from £l3 7s 6d to £l4 17s 6d, and lighter from £ll 2s 6d to £l2 17s 6d. Ox beef in general averaged fully 40s to a shade better for 1001 b. Very forward four-year A.A. bullocks brought £lo 15s, others £lO 8s 6d; three-year steers, £8 17s 6d to £9 ss; fairly grown two-year, £6 17s 6d to £7 Is; medium, £6 15s; medium grown yearling, £5 ss; forward empty cows, £7; good store pens, £6 2s. , Attractive ewe _ hoggets in first class order, made the highest price of the season at 34s 6d; medium, 28s 9d; small, 25s bd; forward well-grown wether hoggets, 26s 4d; others in good store condition, 24s 6d to 25s 6d. WESTFIELD RATES.

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 18. At Westfield a lscavy ox beef yarding discouraged competition, values falling Is iOOlb. , Cattle.—Exlra heavy prime steers, £lO. £lB 10s: heavy. £l4, £ls; medium, £l2, £l3 10s; extra heavy prime cows and heifers. £lO 10s, £l2 10s; £9 15s; medium, £6 15s, £7 15s. Kunners, £5 to £lO 11s; heavy vealers £6 10s £7 17s 6d; medium, £5 ss, £0 os. Choppers made 60s to 955; heavy baeoners, 87s to 925; medium, 80s to 84s; heavy porkers, 72s to 765; medium, bbs to 70s. . . Sheep values rose in consequence of a small yarding. Extra heavy prime woolly wethers made 43s 6d to, f. ’ shorn. 34s 6d, 365; heavy, 40s, 41s 6d 30 s 335; medium woolly, -36 s 6d, 38s; light woolly, 32s 6d, 355; extra heavy prune ■woolly ewes, 355, 38s; shorn, 27s 295, heavy, 325. 345, 235, 255; medium woolly, 28s, 30s; first spring lambs of the season made 38s 3d to 44s 3d.