A BETTER TONE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19719, 9 December 1926, Page 9

A BETTER TONE

SHEEP UP TWO SHILLINGS BURNSIDE TRANSACTIONS. (Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, Dec. 8. At Burnside to-day sheep and lambs were dearer, while heavy fat cattle and fat pigs were cheaper. Sheep.—A penning of 1338 of fair average to good quality. The lot was shorn, except for about 200. Duo to outside buying and the* small entry, the market showed a be’tter tone. Prices had improved a few shillings till a goodly proportion of the last race had been sold, when they eased a little, but finally all classes were about 2s better than they were last week. Prices: Extra heavy wethers, 32s to 35s 3d; prime, 28s (id to 31s; light, 24s 6d to 27s 6d; woolly wethers to 38s 6d; woolly ewes to 30s.

Lambs.—A penning of 300 well-grown cross and ’Dow r n crosses. A good opening demand and rates firmed under steady competition by Is 6d per head, hardening another Is later. Prices: Heavy prime, 33s Jd to 34s 3d; medium weight, 28s to 30s Cd; light, 25s to 275.

Fat Cattle.—A yarding of 301. The average quality was good, and the entry included some extra well finished consignments of bullocks, with a fair sprinkling of unfinished steers and average cows. The opening demand was slow. Medium-weight prime bullocks were firm at last week’s rates, but heavy classes of cattle eased about 15s. Prices: Heavy bullocks, £l4 10s to £l5 17s 6d; medium weight, £l2 5s to £l3 15s, light, £8 5s to £11; heifers £6 to £8 15s; medium cows, £5 J 2s 6d to £8; extra heavy cows, to £ll 7s 6d. Store Cattle.—About 240 were yarded. The entry was chiefly made up of fair to average cows, though there were a few pens of medium steers. The demand was fair. A pen of good two and a-half to three-year-old steers made £8 5s per head; a pen of fair two-year-olds £6 7s 6d: and a pen of rhodium two-year-olds £5 ss. A pen of ono and a-half-year-old heifers brought £3 per head. Killable, cows were unchanged. Pigs.—A penning of 109 fats and 9 stores. At the start of the fat pig sale prices were up, but they dropped considerably towards the end of the sale. Heavy baeoners realised to £5 12s; mediums from £4 10s to £5; extra heavy porkers to £4 ss; mediums from £3 5s to £3 15s; lighter sorts, from £2 10s. Store prices were maintained.