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Taranaki Daily News, 10 January 1920, Page 2

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. By Telegraph.—P.ress Assn.—Copyright. Melbourne, Jan. 9. Hides, stout sorts, firm; kips and lighter grades a shade easier. Barley.—English 7s to 7s 3d, i Cape Cs to 6a Id. Oats—Milling Algerian Os to (is Id, feed 5s 8d to 5s Bd. Potatoes, £ls to £l7. Onions, £9 to £9 10s. ADDINGTON MARKET.

Chrlstchurch, Jan. 7. At Addington market to-day, there was an average yarding of fat cattle, but a small entry of lambs and a moderate yarding of fat sheep. Beef prices remained firm at recent rates, but mutton advanced about Cs on 3s on the sale preceding Christmas, 'when there was a glut. A total of 700 fat lambs were penned, compared with 3400 at the double sale on December 18. Extra prime lambs to 345, prime 29s 6d to 33s 3d, medium 24s 7d to 28s Gd, lighter lgs to 24s 6d. There was a big yarding of store sheep. Including a number from the Chatham Islands, which topped the market. Prises were about 2s easier than at the pre-hollday sales. Torward, 4, C, and 8-tooth wethers, 29s 6d to 31s 6d; ordinary, 26s 6d to 28s 6d, Inferior 255; good 2-tooth wethers 24s 4d, Interior 15s 9d to 17s lOd; lambs, 21s to 235; cull lambs, 12s 3d; woolly mixed sex hoggets, Sis; ewes and lambs, lis; good 4, 0, and 8-tooth ewes 283 to 81s 9d; 2-tooth ewes, 26s 64 Between Ave and six races of fat sheep were penned. The quality was quite moderate, but prices advanced about Ss per head. Extra prime wethers to 535, prime 42s to 48s, medium 37s 8d to 41s 3d, lighter 27s to 375, prime ewes 36s to 40s, medium 31s lOd to 85s 4d, lighter 23s 9d to 31s. Three hundred and ninety-five fat cattle were yarded, prices being firmly maintained. Extra prime steers to £33 ss, prime £23 to £2B, medium £l7 to £22, lighter £9 to £l6; prime heifers to £2l 10s. lighter £7 7s 6d to £l2 7s 8d; extra prime cows to £2B 10s. Store cattle formed a moderate entry, which met With "a keener demand than recently. A line of throe-year steers made up to £l2 15s. There was an average entry of dairy cows, and the demand was good. Superior dairy cows made to £l4 15s. A fair supply of vealers was penned. Runners made up to £8 ss, good vealers 30s to 555, fair to medium £l6 to £27 6s. There wsb a big yarding of pigs, and a good demand. Choppers to £lO, extra heavy baconers £9 ss, heavy baconers £6 10s to £7 5s (average price per lb. lid, ll^d); heavy porkers to £5, ordinary to £4 5s (average price per lb. 12d). A heavy yarding of store pigs came forward. Weaners 22s to 355, stores to £4, small stores to £2 18s.

BURNSIDE STOCK SALES. Dunedln, Jan. 7. With tho exception of pigs, there were good yardings of fat stock In all departments at Burnslde to-day. There were 202 fat cattle yarded. Prices for prime animals were on a par with rates ruling at last sale. For light, well-finished bullocks and heifers, prices advanced 10s on late rates. Best bullocks sold from £26 17b 6d to £3O 12s 6d, medium £lB to £22, light £l3 to £l7, heavy cows and heifers £22 ss, medium and good £l3 to £l7, light and aged £ll 10s and upwards.

Store cattle: There was a good yarding, composed mostly of cows and young cattle, which commanded poor competition Only one pen of good three-year-old bullocks was on offer, which failed to And a purchaser. Tat sheep—There was a good yarding of fair quality, numbering 1826 head. About half tho yarding comprised good quality sheep, the balance being onfty fla/tr. Competition waa keen for all prime sheep at values equal to last sales' rates. Secondary and Inferior sheep declined Is, and In some cases more. No eitra heavy-weight sheep were forward. Prime wethers made from 41s to 45s Sd, medium 36s to 395, light, unfinished kinds, from 30s upwards; prima ewes made from 38s to 43s 3d medium 33s to 365, light and aged from 24s upwards.

Taj lambs: There was a large yarding of m^ lu ? quality, a total of 600 head being offered Thero were no freezing buyers In the market, ' competition was, therefore, practically res.lcted to butchers. The yarding was In excoss of requirements, resulting In a reduction In value's beta" obtained Prices ranged from 20s to 30s a head. Pigs: Thero was a small yarding. A much larger number could have been absorbed had they been on offer. There was keen competition, and the prices obtained were fully equal to the high rates lately ruling Prime baconers rea bed from 10% d to !l%d per lb; and prime porkers from Is to Is 2d per lb. INGLEWOOD SALE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society has very reason to be satisfied with Its opening sale In tho Inglewood yards for 1920 which was held on Wednesday, the 7th. Inst when, allowing for the present shortage of feed prevailing generally, and the usual association of business inseparable from the midsummer holiday time, there was a very fair muster of stock, and, to show that the cattle men at I any rata are wide awake to their Interests J very nearly all the lines offered found purchasers, i

The demand for store cows was Arm, lute prices bing maintained, viz., from £7 to £lO bulls were keenly sought after, the ton price recorded being £22. Dairy cattle at this time of the year are 'not so readily sold, but fill was given for a heifer that had calved and £lO 10s for a cow and calf. Youngster stock too sold well, 15 to 18-month steers for oi ™ £5 i? a 6d ' iS-wonths empty heifers £5 10s, yearling steers £3 4s, 2%-year heifers In calf from £7 2s to £7 16s, a line of E! yearling heifers £3 17s 6d. & "

„ la A Uee P' fof ward, ewes sold for 26a, wethers 27s 6d, store ewes up to 17s 3d and a iin. of Southdown lambs iCs 7d, So takhig it all round It may be said thA the In/le"oorf yards Jus-fled the good reputation they have attained since their establishment. FHIESLAND PASS BtlftD. chronicle In its dairy history of New Zealand as a most memorable event, the unreserved dispersal of the famous Frlesland Park herd of Frleslans, which will be submitted to public auction on the Palmerston North on Wednesday, the 14th. of

«« ™S!! eue ' "J . 144 , head wlu •» evented to the public, .and Included among the 101 feS. a ( h\A r I mlghts, m ! trtmß ot s ' ate, y breeding, with handsome records, and heifers of unquestionable lineage. f ,^ r, ,i?lT lo f k A unded hls ™gniflcent herd from the best of Dutch blood, and by the infusion of specially selected American, personay chosen from the greatest families, has built up what to-day must be recognised as the largest and one of the foremost herds to the Dominion. All associated with the ClMlside, her performances, and her daughters' performances, the mighty prepotent sire King Segis Wild Rose Homestead, and his champion son, King of Domlnos. These, with other famous males and females appear and reappear throughout the catalogue, while oxceptlonnl and numerous butter-fat records, remarks on numbers of proven sons and aro daughters, records of championships and prizes must make intending buyers realise what enormous value Is to bo sold to the highest bidder. It Is a chance of a lifetime for a young B Z , r h» a m,'l ? *™ OTtlla "r which must seize the established breeder, to secure fresh strains of the very best blood procurable In any part of the world. lumuiu in

J ,^S rus , e /"Vf. ca ""<'Bi"s- then see the individuals in life at the Paimerston North sho W (rounds on Wednesday. Jan. 14, when the auctioneers, Dalsety and Co., Ltd, will commence selling sharp at 11 o'clock