FAT SHEEP EASIER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 8

FAT SHEEP EASIER

BEEF RATES RECOVER STORTFORD LODGE (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. A yarding of over 1000 head of wcaner livers, which were penned in the largest lumbers for the season at Stortford Lodge stock' sale yesterday met with an easier market. Quality among these young cattle was well featured. The top lines made from £4 19s to £5 10s. Good weaucr Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross heifers went to £3 4s. Good two-year Aberdeen Angus steers made AS; Smaller-grown horned Hcrefords, in lighter order, were unsold at £6 11s. Good three-year Aberdeen Angus steers made £9 l'Oik' Similarly aged Hcrefords, lacking size, were not traded at £8 2s. A line of fouryear Hereford bullocks, in forward condition, made £lO ss. Cows were penned in (.‘nailer numbers than usual, empty for fattening, in medium order, making £5. A Wairoa pen of 25 A.A.-Hereford cross wearier steers, medium to fairly Well grown, sold at £4 18s. After opening at cheaper rates, beef values recovered in the later stages. One hundred and ninety head were penned. Quality was confined to a few pons. The best cows made from £8 13s Gd to £9 11s; medium pens, £7 lGs to £8 8s Gd; light and plain, £5 16s to £7 Is. Extra good Aberdeen Angus neifers made from £lO 13s fid to £ll 3s fid; medium to good, £8 18s Gd to £9 3s 6d; lighter £7 11s to £3 8s Gd; small and light, £5 13s Gd to £5 16s. Little ox beef was penned, the main entry being heavy pens showing Jersey, cross which made to £l4. A Morore draft of P.A. heifers in light order ranged from £5 13s to £5 lGs. Although there was a small yarding of under 700 head, prices for fat sheep failed to hold the advanced rates of last week, values being down in some eases by 2s and more a head. Extra heavy prime wethers topped the selling at 31s 4d; medium to heavy prime pens, 25s 7d to 20s lOd; lighter 24s Id. The best ewes made 18s 4d; average ewes, 13s 4(1 to 14s lOd; plain and light, 10s Id to 11s 4d; heavy hoggets, 29s 10s; .smaller and lighter, which made up nearly all pens, 23s Id. There was the smallest yarding of store sheep for sorrie time, prices showing little change from late high values on the basis of quality. -Plain six-year ill-lamb ewes sold well at 18s Id. Young, mixed aged ewes made better buying at 255. Woolly wether hoggets found a strong market at from ISs 10(1 to 20s Bd. Bright ewe hoggets made better buying ut 27s 4d. Forward wethers sold in vendors’ favour at 22s -9d