COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 March 1917, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

ADDING TON. At Addington Market there was a big attendance of buyers and others. Store sheep: Mixed sex lambs 15s Id to 24s 2d, ewe lambs 225, wether lambs 17s lOd to 18s lid, two-tooth ewes 30s 3d to 36s sd, two- and four-tooth ewes 25s 9d to 3Gs, four-tooth ewes 20s Id to 35s Id, four-, six-, and eight-tooth ewes 27s 3d to to 365, sound-mouthed ewes l'Ss 9d to 23s 4d, two-tooth wethers 23s to 24s Sd, four- and six-tooth wethers 245, two-, four-, six-, and eight-tooth wethers 21s 3d to 235. Fat lambs: Extra prime to 30s, prime 27s to 31s, medium 23s to 2Gs, lighter 20s to 22s Cd. Fat sheep: Extra prime .wethers to 43s (id, prime 32s to 30s (id, lighter 23s to 30s, prime ewes 32s to 37s Gd, medium 20s to 30s, lighter 14s to 25s Od. Fat cattle: Extra prime steers £2l 10s, prime steers £bi 15s to £l9, ordinary steers £ll 10s to £l4 10s, extra prime cows £lB ss, prime cows £ll 10s to £l4 10s, ordinary cows £0 os to £lO 10s, extra prime heifers to £ls ss, prime heifers £lO us to £l4, ordinary heifers £'J 12s (id to £lO 2s (id. Store cattle: Yearlings £3 18s, 15to 18-month £4 10s, two-year steers £0 7s Gd to £0 13s, two-year heifers £5 7s (id to £G, three year steers £9 10s to £l2 7s, three-year'heifers £S to £9 23 Od, dry cows "£4 to £0 10s. Pigs: Choppers to £S 17s, heavy baeoners £G 4s, medium baeoners £5 10s, light £4 12s (equal to 7>/-d to Sd per lb, heavy porkers 04 s to 72s lighter 55s to 60s (equal to 9d to lOd per lb), best stores 57s to G2s, medium 47s Gd to sas, small 25s to 303, weaners 18s to 21s. BUKNSIDE. At Burnside fat bullocks made £l6 lo £18; extra prime, heavy £'2l 2s Gd, medium £l3 to £l4 15s, others £lO to £l2 10s; best cows and heifers £ll to £l3, extra prime heavy £l4 17s 6d, others £S to £lO 10s. Fat sheep: Best wethers 36s to 38s, extra 4Gs, others 20s, best ewes 32s Gd to 355, extra prime heavy t'Gs Gd, others 255. Lambs: Extra prime 34s Od, prime 20s Gd to 295, medium 22s Gd to 255, others 21s. There was. a vc-r) small yarding of pigs. Competition was keen and prices exceptionally high. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., report as followB: At Westfield: best dairy cows and heifers, close to profit, £l2 to £l7; backward springers, £8 10s to £ll ss; empty store cows, £7 10s to £9 ss; yearling to eighteen-month heifers, £5 las to £7 ss; ditto steers, £7 to £S 15s; bulls Bgs to 12gs; steer calves (best) £4 las to £5 12s Gd; heifer calves, £4 to £5 10s; inferior calves £2 10s to £3 15s. Westfield ram fair: Best. Romneys, 2tooth, sold at from ,')„'s to 12gs for a draft of forty from Palmcrston North, others sgs to 7Jgs; aged 2gs to 4!jgs; Lincoln, sgs to rtgs for two-tooths, aged 3gs upwards; English Leicester.-;, 2gs to 4gs; Border Leieesters 3gs to sgs; Shropsliires 2Jgs to 4gs; Southdowns 2gs to 3gs; Merinos lg to Corriedalcs lg to llgs for aged sheep. At Westfield fat stock market: medium baeoners, £3 10s to £3 19s; light ditto, £3 to £3 9s; heavy porkers, £2 12s to £3 ss; medium ditto, £2 4s to £2 lis; light ditto, £1 15 to £2 3s; slips, 10s to £1 14s; weaners, 13s to 19s; suckers, Ss to 12s.