MARKETS BUOYANT

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1940, Page 2

MARKETS BUOYANT

LIVESTOCK AUCTIONS WEEKLY SALE SUMMARY Prices of livestock resumed their rising tendency at New Zealand saies this week. The increased values were general and only in some cases were they due to small yardings. A summary is as follows: — Addington. Cattle: Extra prime steers to £26 12s 6d. medium to heavy £15 10s to £22, others £10 to £15: best heifers; £13 5s to £19 2s 6d, others £8 to £13; best cows. £10 10s to £19 7s 6d; others, £5 to £10. I Sheep: Best wethers 45s to 60s ld, or- | dinary to good 39s 6d to 44s 9d: light. ,• down to 32s: best ewes 40s to 50s 4d, good 30s to 39s 6d, light down to 22s. [ Pigs: Pork, average a pound 8Jd to 94d; j bacon, 7Jd to 8d. j Westfield. j Cattle: Extra heavy prime ' steers £15 j 10s to £16 5s, heavy £14 5s to £15, med- 1 ium £12 15s to £13 10s, light £11 to £12 \ 5s, unfinished £7 12s 6d to £10 10s; extra 1 heavy prime cows and heifers £10 10s to £12 10s, heavy £8 10s to £9 10s, medium £6 15s to £7 15s, others £5 to £6 5s; runners £5 to £11 2s Gd; heavy vealers, j £6 10s to £8, medium £5 10s to £6 5s, j light 80s to 105s, small 20s to 75s, bobby and rough 5s to 42s. Pigs: Choppers 59s to 95s: heavy baconers 86s to 92s, medium 80s to 83s, light 76s to 79s; heavy porkers 76s to 80s, medium 68s to 72s, small and light 52s to 61s; :'">res, 46s to 52s; slips, 35s to 43s; weaners 22s to 37s. Sheep: Extra heavy prime wethers 42s to 44s, heavy 38s 6d to 40s. medium 35s to 36s 6d, light 31s to 33s 6d, unfinished 28s 6d to 30s; extra heavy prime ewes, 33s to 36s, heavy 28s 6d to 31s, medium 25s to 27s, others 10s to 23s. Hoggets sold at from 17s 6d to 38s. Stortford Lodge. Store cattle: Four-year bullocks from £10 12s to £11, good three-year steers from £9 12s to £10 2s, good two-year A.A. steers £7 5s and small medium £5 17s 6d, good yearling steers from £5 10s to £5 16s. empty cows for fattening from £5 15s to £6 14s, light empty three-year A.A. heifers £5 15s, fairlv grown twoyear heifers £5 16s, smaller £5, good yearling heifers £3 2s. Beef cattle: Well finished mediumweight bullocks from £13 12s 6d to £14 17s 6d, lighter from £11 17s 6d to £13 2s Gd; cows £14 17s 6d: best heifers from £11 7s 6d to £12 17s 6d; small grown entries, choice young beef, £7 17s 6d to £9 12s 6d; light, unfinished pens from £6 15s to £7. Sheep: Aged ewes, Down cross, undocked lambs at foot, from 17s 4d to 17s all counted; wether hoggets, 25s 7d. Wanganui. Sheep: Fat wethers, 33s 6d to 36s; prime ewes, 20s to 33s, fat 27s to 30s; Down Cross, to 24s 9d; fat hoggets, 22s to 29s 9d; store ewes. 13s 4d: aeed ewes with lambs at foot, 17s to 20s. all counted. Cattle: Fat heifers. £8 10s to £10: fat cows, £8 to £10. light £5 10s to £7 15s; store cows, £2 5s to £3 15s; yearling bulls, to £4 5s; good yearling Jersey heifers. £6 6s; guaranteed Jersey cows, close up, £9 to £11 10s; aged and late calvers, £7 5s to £8 15s; springing heifers, close up, £10 15s to £11 15s, calved £8 15s to £10 15s: backward and small heifers, £5 5s to £7. Pigs: Porkers £2 5s to £2 16s; good stores 36s 6d "to 41s 6d, others 24s to 32s; good slips and weaners, extra to 36s, good 28s to 32s, average 23s to 28s, small 17s 6d to 22s; sows to farrow, £3 to £4. Vealers: Runners, £4 15s to £5 12s; vealers, 26s to 42s. Masterton. Sheep: Light fat wethers, 33s to 34s; prime fat maiden ewes, 34s: light and unfinished ewes, 22s to 23s 6d; store four and six-tooth woolly wethers, 27s 6d; medium two-tooth wethers, 25s; forward wethers, 28s 6d; woolly ewe hoggets, medium 31s 3d to 32s: wether hoggc+s, 22s 3d; f.m. ewes with lambs at foot, 15s, all counted. Cattle: Second calver, in milk, £7; springing Shorthorn cow, £7. Pigs: Good slips, 34s; good weaners, 24s to 27s; small, 20s to 22s 6d.

Himitangi. Sheep: Weaner hoggets, 19s; fat hoggets, 26s to 27s. Cattle: Springing Jersey heifers, close to profit, £9 15s to £12; later calving heifers, £6 15s to £10; springing Friesian heifers. £10 15s to £14 10s; dairy cows. £6 10s to £11 10s; yearling dairy heifers. £4 16s: 20-months mixed coloured steers. £5 12s; 20-months P.A. heifers. £4 19s; fat cows. ex dairy, £5 7s Gd to £6 17s 6d; store cows, £3 12s 6d to £4 19s. Pigs: Weaners, 20s to 28s 6d. Pahiatua. Cattle: Dairy heifers, close to calving good, £13 15s to £12 10s, calved, £13 10s to £10 15s; dairy cows, calved £14 tc £12. later calvers £10 10s to £8; yearling Jersey heifers. £6 to £5 16s; two-yeai emnty Jersey heifers. £6 ls. Sheep: F-t ewes. 32s to 29s; light fat wethers. 2.9s; ewe hoggets, medium, 27s 3d: small wether hoggets, 22s 6d. Pigs; Weaners. good 35s 6d. medium 26s 6d to 21s; small stores, 30s 6d. Marton. Sheep: Extra good ewe hoggets 33s tc 38s 6d, good 34s 3d to 34s 9d, medium 31s to 31s lOd, small 20s 7d; good wethei hoggets 26s lOd, medium to 22s 7d, fa1 ewes 27s to 28s 3d; fat two-tooths 35s. Cattle: Springing heifers, £8; emptj cows, £2 12s 6d; yearling heifers. £2 15s Pigs: Best weaners 30s to 35s 6d, gooc 27s to 28s, small 21s.