BEEF RATES EASIER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20624, 27 November 1941, Page 8

BEEF RATES EASIER

SHEEP VALUES DOWN STOR'D ORD LODGE (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. . 'j Small to medium-grown forward Aberdeen,! Angus bullocks from £9 12s to £lO made the best selling in the store cattle section at the Stortford Lodge sale yesterday. Younger cuttle were traded on an easier market, being 5s to 7s 6d a head cheaper. Small three-year steers brought £7 3s to £7 7s. Two-year steers, doing well, brought £6 13s. Extra good yearling steers made £5 10s and others, small, off high country, £4 Bs.. Yearling Aberdeen Augus heifers brought £3 135., high country two-year-olds £4 7s Gd, well conditioned three-year-olds £G 10s, and other's,! lighter, £5 17s. Well-framed extra forward: empty cows brought 'ls 17s. In a heavy supplied market, female, beef was from 10s to 15s a head easier. Eater values showed, a slight firming tendency on. earlier rates., Top price. for heifers was for a lot which; made £8 18s Gd to £9 Us, averaging a little under 30s per IOOIbs. Other pens m good order ranged from £7 lOh to £8 18s 6d, mid lighter to £7 Ss Gd. Well-finished two-year Aberdeen- Angus . heifers .sold at £G Is. Heavy cows made £7 13s 6(J,to £8 Us, Good medium cows ranged from £7 Is to £7 775, several lilies of plain and unfinished lots making from £5 3s Gd to £(> isThe market for wethers was up to Is a head easier. The dry weather restricted competition. Fat and forward two-tooth wethers brought 17s 3d. Others. well grown and showing breeding and in good, order, made from 17s to 17s 3d. a mixed line selling at 16s 9d. A well-conditioned line of two-tooth ewes showing breeding sold at 255. Similarly aged Ryeland cross ewes, carrying a lot of condition, made 225. Mixed a-ed ewes, with iambs brought lGs all counted. Shorn four, six and eight-toofha. with forward lambs, made 14s 3d all counted. The market for fat sheep was easier. Lambs were fully 2s Gd a head Cheaper, but still realised values in advance of the schedule. Overweight wethers were hard to <iuit. The best lambs brought 24s Id to 25b 7d, light pens being down to 19s Id. Prime ewes brought 10s 4d to 12s Id and others overweight Ss 10(1 to 9 5,4.1. Maiden two-tooths made 14s -Id to 14» 7d, and Soutndown cross, mixed sex two-tooths, ISs 4<t. Prime wethers brought -la 4d to 2ls lOd, light 19s 7d and overweight 18s 4(1.