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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 55, 26 August 1911, Page 3

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; N'EWTON KING'S WEEKLY REPORT,

At Waiwakaiho on Thursday, 17th inst., there was a fair yarding, mostly of young cattle, which realised Mtisfactory prices. Mixed yearling! made 33s to 39s 6d, yearling steers 35s to £2 Gs Od, yearling heifers 36s to £'2 6s, do. (Jersey strain) £2 10s to £3, empty heifers £2 19s to £4 3s, springing heifers £4 to £6 10s, store cows £2 17s to £3 6s Od, forward cows £3 10s to £4, springing cows £6 15s to £ll. • 16s, bulls £3 17s 6d to £4 ss, four and sixtooth ewes ll2s, mixed sheep Bs. _ A cow which was donated to the .Agricultural Society by Mr. S. Smith realised £ll 15s.

On Friday, the 18th inst., I sold Mr. .T. Sumner's herd at Qalcura, when there was a good attendance, and tlie cows, most nf which were early calvers and in fair condition, realised good prices. Cows (close up) brought from £6 to £lO, later £4 10s to £5 1»«, bulls £5 ss-to £6, sows £-2 to £3 6s, boar 325, good stores Mis to 235. porkers 30s. ' At Urenui sale on Monday, the 21st inst., there was a large yarding, especially of young catle, which were, in good demand. Several lines of dairy cows were offered, but, being in rather poor condition, did not realise recent market rates. Mixed yearlings £2 ss, yearling steers 37s to £2 12s, yearling lieifere 3ils to £2 12s 6d, empty heifers £3, springing heifers £4 9s to £7, 3-year Steers £3 Ills to £3 15s, store cows 38s fid to £3 3s, forward cows $3 8s to £4 ss, dairy cows £4 to £8 10s, bulls £3 28 6d to £4 ss, wetkere 14s fid, sows 28s to £2 Is, weaner pip 7s to 9s, stores 14s to 18s, porkers 2<te. At my usual fortnightly cattle sale at Stratford bn the fl2nd inst. there was a fair yarding, with good attendance of buyers. Young cattle were i» good demand and so}<J readily. Mixed yearlings 33s to 42s fid, do. (poor conditioned) 20s 6d, yearling heifers 34s to £2 lis, vi'nrlitig steers 31s to £2 4s fid, 2-year heifers £3 os to £3 lißs Od, springing li 'ifere £4, store cows £3 2s to £3 12s Oil, forwa.rd cows £3 16s to £4, fat cows £4 17s fid to £5 7s, springing cows £5 ss, bulls 34s to £2.

On the same day my Stratford dairy yards were well filled with springing heifers and dairy cows, which met with a good market. A very choice line was yarded by Mr. Geo. Lorimer, which, averaged £9 9s, one of the cows reaching £lO 10s. Springing cows, close up, made £6 to £7 17s 6d, later £4 to £5 16s, dairy cows, close up, £6 to £l9 10s, lat"r £4 10s to £5 15s, very late £3 7s (kl to £4 ss.

At Stony River on Wednesday, the 23rd inst., there was a good yarding, mostly of young stock, prices for which were slightly in advance of previous sale. Some choice fat cows were disposed of at from £5 12s fid to £7 15s. Mixed yearlings made 28s 6<l to £2 4s fid, yearling steers £2 to £2 10s fid, yearling heifers £2 5s to £2 16s, 2-year heifers £3 8s 6d, empty heifers £3 7s to £3 'l7b, store cows 30s to £3 12s (id, forward cows £3 17s to £4, dairy cows £5 5s to £7, bulls £3 10s to £6, store pigs 16s, weaners '6s 6d.

MATTHEWS & BENNETT'S' EEPORT. Messrs Matthews and Bennett report that at Mr. T. Jury's sale on Tuesday last there was a large attendance of buyers, and everything, sold well. Yearlings brought £2 Bs, heifers £5 10s, bull £5 His. dairy cows £S to £l2, horses £8 15s to £2B 10s, sows in pig £3 to £3 17s 6d. At the Inglewood yards on Wednesday all stock sold freely, with the exception of second-rate dairy cows, which Lwere hard to quit at vendors' reserves. F I'rices as follows: Yearling heifers £2 3s Cd to £2 13s 6d, steers 34s to £2 2s 6d, 2-year empty heifers £3 14s Cd, store cows £3 8s to £3 15s, old do. £1 5s to £2 12a Cd, springing heifers poor and second-rate cows £2 15s to £4, f.m. ewes lis 3d.

SOUTHERN MARKETS. ADDFXGTOX. ! At Addington live stock market tlicrr were fairly large entries of stock, and the attendance was above the average of late sales. There was 110 material change in the value of heef, and fat sheep were firm at last week's rates. Store sheep were easier in demand, but prices remained without much alteration. There was a good sale, of pigs and the. better class of dairy cattle, but little demand for store cattle.

Store sheep —Hoggets, good ewes, 12s 9d to 13s Id, good wethers lis to lis 7d, medium mixed sexes' !)s !)d to 10s 3d, small sorts to Ss 4d, wethers (forward sorts) las to lfis 7d, fair sorts 1.4s to 15s, low-conditioned two-tooths 10s to 12s 6d, specially good two-tooth halfbred ewes 10s 7d, others 13s (kl to 10s, four, six and eight-tooths 14s !)d, sound-mouth lis fid to li3s, low-conditioned sorts VOs to lis, aged 5s Cd to 7s Gd, good ewes and lamlis 9s b'd (all counted). Fat sheep—Extra prime wethers to 375, prime- 23s to 28s 9d, otWrs his (id to 22s (id, prime ewes 20s to 25s Id, others 15s Id to 19s lid, hoggets 14s !)d to 17s 3d, merino wethers 18s to 235, merino ewes 12s Id.

The supply of beef comprised 30S head, or 20 less than last week, and included 11 good proportion of prime quality cattle, but these did not sell relatively as well as medium sorts. There was a good demand, and values showed little change. Steers made £7 10s to £ll, extra £l7 10s, heifers £5 10s to £9 ss, extra to £lO 10s fid, cows £5 to £lO 10s {id (equal to 35s for extra, 27s 6d to 32.S for prime, 25s to 27s for medium, and 23is (id for cow and inferior beef per 1001b).

The restriction of 601b as the dressed weight of veal calves slaughtered at the abattoirs had the effect of reducing the numbers of small calves offered. Prices ranged for vealers from 4s 6d to £3 17s fid and larger sorts to £4 6s. A small entry of store cattle was chiefly composed of young sorts in low condition. There was little demand, and prices were low. Yearlings made 345, fifteen to eighteen months 41s to 4!)s, two and a-half year steers £4 7s Od. dry cows 30s to £4'ss.

Only (lie better sorts of dairy cows were in demand, ranging from £3 15s (0 •CN 10s.

There was a small entry of fat pigs, and there was consequently an all-round improvement in prices, prime sorts being in n-live demand. Choppers sold up to €4 17s (Jil, large baeoners £2 15s to £•1 7s (id, smaller sorts 43s to 52s fid (e<|it!il to 4%d to 3d per lb), large porkers :tSs to 445, smaller 30s to litis (equal to 3d to 5%d per lb). Store pigs were in good demand at advanced rates, large sorts making 25s to 28s, medium 18s to 245, small 14s to 17s, weaners 8s to 12s Gd, sows in pins 40s to 00s.

BURNSIDE. At Burnside sale 210 fat cattle were yarded. The quality was rather better than was the case last week, hut owing to the large yarding prices showed a decline of from 15s to 20s per bead. Best, bullocks £ll VOs to £ 12 10s, extra, to £l4 7s fid, medium £H 5s to £0 15s. inferior £7 10s to £B, best cows and heifers £8 10s to £9 16s, extra to £lO ]g B ,

| medium £6 15s to £7 10s, inferior £4' l | 16s to £5 10s. iFat sheep —The. yarding comprised 3279, of which there was a proportion of [ really fine wethers, though rather under I the average of the past few weeks. A considerable nnmber of them required / finishing, and for these the demand was somewhat slack. For prime sheep the sale opened- at about last week's rates, but later on improved by Od to Is per head, but the advance was not sustained, and towards the end of the sale the demand fell away owing to the bulk of the buyers having satisfied requirements. Best heavy wethers 23s to 26s 9d, medium to good 19s to 225, light anil unfinished 14a 6d to 17s 6d, best ewes IDs to 22s 6d, medium 15s to 18s, light Us to 13s 6d.

JOHNSONVILLE. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—We offered a fair yarding of bullocks and a heavy one of sheep, which sold readily at late'rates. Prime heavy buMpcks £lO 2s (id to £ll 6d, prime bullocks £lO to £lO 7s fid, light £9 to £9 ss, prime wethers £1 0s fid to 21s, lighter 19s Id, light 17s 3d to 18s 4d, prime heavy ewes 21s Od, medium ewes 17s Id to 17s 6d. MASTERTOX. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report:—We yarded only one pen of wethers and a few pens of dairy cattle, all of which found ipurchasers at. satisfactory prices. We also offered a herd of dairy cows at the conclusion of the sale, for which there was good competition, particularly for early calvers, which sold from £7 to £8 16s, more backward ones £4 15s to £0 15s. Small wethers made lis; springing heifers, good £6 17s fid, springing cows £4 to £5, bulls up to £5 16s.