STORTFORD LODGE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 6, 2 October 1941, Page 12

STORTFORD LODGE

Dominion Special Service.

HASTINGS, October 1. Wether hoggets as shorn lambs and showing a touch of Corriedale, which made 27/3, were a feature of, today s sheep sale at Stortford Lodge. The price was the highest realized at auction for the season. The pen was on acoount Te Awa station, which also offered a pen of ewe hoggets, also shorn as lambs, to make the exceptionally high figure of 32/9. The market for all classes of sheep was firm and active. Forward woolly wether hoggets brought 23/8, others, smaller aud lighter, from 20/6 to 22/1. Ewes with lambs were again in keen demand, four and six-tooth ewes with good lambs making 19/2, all counted. Five-year ewes, mouthing well, with lambs, made 16/2, all counted. A total clearance was made.

Store cattle were readily traded in a bright market, when a yarding of approximately 500 w-as penned. Most of the lines were from a distance, including a number railed from Wairoa. The best of the three-year A.A. steers were in store condition only, and, could, not be compared with last week's main pens. They made to £B/11/-. Store bullocks brought £lO/8/-. The beet of two-year steers were medium-grown only, making to £7/5/-. Yearling steers were very small and hard wintered, to sell extra well at £4/8/-. In the female pens a feature was cows with the first calves of the season, which made £6/7/6. Very forward A.A. cows brought £7. others in store order making from £5/10/- to £6 2/-. Female beef, taking a sharp rise of from 15/- to 20/- a head, fully recovered last week’s drop in the market. There was a smaller yarding of 180 head, half of which were quality sorts. Included were some quality pens of heifers forwarded from the Gisborne district. The main draft was on account Marae Downs,l of prime A.A. females, heifers making to £l3/1/-. with an average of £ll/14/3. and cows to £lO/18/-. averaging £lO/0/7. Prime heifers from Gisborne ranged from £ll/13/6 to £l2/16/-. Smaller-grown prime heifers on account estate C. M. Richmond made to £ll/1/-, with quality cows on the same account ranging from £ll/8/6 to £l2/1/-. Small heifers brought £7/3/6 to £9/8/6., Extra good vealers, on account Nilsson Bros., brought £5/15/-, others ranging, from £3 9/- to £4/12/-. according to size. The market held strongly throughout, with the selling showing a tendency to firm further as it progressed.