COMMERCIAL.

Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 14 March 1919, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

ADDINGTON MARKET. Cliristchureh, March 12. At the Addington market to-day there were rather smaller yardings of fat and store sheep and. fat cattle, and increased entries of fat lambs, store and dairy cattle, and pigs. There was a large attendance of those interested :j in store sheep. A heavy shower of rain came up from the south, but the weather was too hot to have any effect upon, the store sheep market, which is now being seriously affected through the long dry spell of weather and the shortage of feed on the plains. Store sheep . of all classes were easier, and the same may be said of unfinished lambs: In the fat down, in price. There was no business done for export until - towards the end of the sale./ Fat sheep sold well, as the yarding was a short one. There was [ little demand for store cattle. Unfinished'pigs ’in fat pens were dull of / sale, and there was not a very active demand for store pigs. Store Sheep.—Best rape lambs brought up to 245, 'good 19s 6d to 20s ad. medium las 7d to 18s, cull lambs from Ss 9d, ewe lambs to 21s Id, wether lambs 19s, best 2-tooth ewes 2Ss fid to 30s fid, good 25s to 275, medium 22s to 24s fid" poorer sorts 16s 5d to 20s, best 0 and S,-tooth ewes 24s -to 24s id, medium 19s lOd to 28s fid, good 4 and 6-tooth J ewes 27s 3d to 295, -best 4,6, and Sj to'orh ewes 33s 9d, medium 'lss to 21s * 6d. good 2-tooth trethers 25s 6d to 27s .j \ 7.1 ' ' !

| Fat Lambs.—Prime lambs 25s to 31s lid. medium 24s 6d to, 27s 6d, lighter 121 s -Sd to 245. 1 Far Sheep.—Extra -prime wethers to j 555, prime we-thors 35s fid to '42?. liehx- : er-wethers ;25s to 30s. merino wethers 15s to-20s. prime ewes 34s- Cd to 35s fid, medium ewes -30 s to :345, lighter ewes 22s to 29s Cd. Fat Cattle.—-Extra. ffritne steers £2l. prime steers' £ls: As. to £l9. ordinary ; steers £l3 to £ls ICte, extra prime keii-

e’rs £l7, prime lieifers £lO 17s 6d to £l'3 17s (id, ordinary heifers £7 os to £lO 10s, prime cows £l2 to £l3 15s, ordinary cows £S 2s 6d to £ll 15s. Store Cattle. —Extra good calves £5 11s, 3S-months £6 12s 6d, dry cows £l2 .£4;to £i) 9s, bulls £lO to £l9, dairy cows £7 to £lO. Pigs.—Choppers £5 to £9, extra heavy bacoucrs £S, heavy baeoncrs £0 10s to £7 ss, lighter baconors £5 to £5 los, unfinished pigs £3 5s to £4 (equal to 9-Jd per lb), heavy porkers £2 os to £S as,'lighter porkers £2 15s to £3 10s, (equal to lOd to 101 d per lb), medium stores 38s to 545, smaller stores 28s to 355, weaners 12s to 2Ss, breeding sows £3 17s 6d.