CATTLE FAIR

Gisborne Times, 13 October 1932, Page 2

CATTLE FAIR

FINAL Dir AT ;M£fAWHEEO KEEN DEMAND FOR STORES There was a keener market for store calleTEan the previous day at •the Matawhero spring cattle fair yesterday. fetchdd relatively bet ter prices than males' and were -disposed of more- easily. There was a smaller demand, however, for beef than tjm previous day, values declining in consequence. The total entry of store cattlo yesterday was 2850, thq total of fat and store cattle for •tills fair being- 048$. BEEF. The eutry of beef totalled 00 head, and generally they were an ■uninteresting lot. The market was very slack, with prices below Tuesday’s. The best price, .for' a cow was. £2 s 3 > with others from £1 5s upwards. A few bullocks, mostly requiring finishing. made up to £8 15s, heifers from 37s 6d to £2 12s 6d and some goodwzed vealers. 355. . Prices: — Fat cattlo One good Jersey cow, 255. j 1 plain cores, 355.: 2 Jersey cows. 37s Cd.: 1 plain Jersey. 255.; 1 light black, 255.; 8 Hcrefords. 355..; 7 good P.A., £2 55.; 1 F.A., £2. - Bullocks. —One Jersey bullock. £2 Us.; 3 fair ITercfords, £3 155.; 0 fairly good Hereford 3. £3 155.; 4 P A. Hereford's, unfinished, £3 2s G. Heifers. —Two good heifers. £2 7 s dd; 1 Hereford heifer. 37s 6d.; 4 medium finished, £2 2s Gd.-; .1. good Hereford, £2 I2s. Gd. Vealers,— Three good-sized vealers. 35. STORE CATTLE.

There was a large yarding.of icmale cattlo for the second day of the fair- Bidding was brisker than on 'J'uesday, giving much bettor tone to the sale, and prices relatively were hotter than those for the male cattle. Yearlings 'ranged from 20s to 2Gs., a tew pens of extra two-year-olds £2 to £2 Gs, a few good pens at 3Gs to 375. and others from 23s upwards. There wero several pens about 30s. Grown heifers reached £3 for a choice pou and generally £2 to £2 10Good cows made 345.. poor sorts 21s, medium 255, and good 30s and 31s, Prices -

Young cattle. Fifty-seven, averaging IS months, medium condition. 10s.; 13. good class. P. A.-Hereford cross, 20s. ; 64 yearlings, P A.. io god order. 265.: 47. good size and condition, P.A. yearlings, 243.; 10 good Hereford's. 215.; 21 good P.A. yearlings, 215.; 15 do.. 205.; 30, g° u d Pi A-Horeford cross. 325.; 15 medium conditioned Hcrefords, 19s.

Two-year-old.—-Twenty-one Hereford's. a good pen, £2 55.; 27 Herefords. good store condition, 365.; 30 He refords, fair condition, 205. ; -14 P.A.. low condition, 235.; 30 good P.A-, 375.; 25 P.A.. wel.l-growu, good condition. £2 25.; 33 P.A.-Hereford cross, in good order. 26=.; 26 Hereford* and Shorthorns, medium condition, 295.; 50. good store condition, P.A.. 305.; 23. good Hercfords, £2.; 31 P-A., extra good, £2 35.; 28, good class Hcrefords. £2 55.; 50 P„A., mcdium. v .c‘.onditiOn.,3ls.,- 10. fresh condition. P.A. Hereford cross. 31?.; 17 roans. -S hor thorn-Heneford cross, £2 os.; .11 good conditioned P.A..- 355-: U good Hcrefords, 3-ls.; 10 good P.A..-Hereford cross, a good pen, 345.-: 13 good Hcrefords, 38s.

Grown heifers. —Iwenly-four Hereford cross, in good order. £2 43.; 5o choice three-year Hcrefords. in great condition, £3.; 44 Hcrefords. iu good condition, £2 1.05.: 30 Hcrefords, in good store, condition. £2 3s. ;2l fresh condition. Hereford cross, 3Gs.; 91 uhuico . three-year P.A ..-Hereford cross. £2 9s. : 26 good condition. P. A.. 02 15= : 13 fatty, two-year Hcretords. 325. j 13 big. fresh conditioned Shorthorns t £2: 5 good fvosh-condi-lioned Hcrefords. £2 3s.

Lows. —Thirty-seven, mixed colors, poor condition, 31s. : 54, big frames, good condition. 34=.; 27 Hcrefords. good frames, medium condition, 265.; 19 fresh Hcrefords. mostly young. 33»; 9 Hcrefords good frame and condition 305.; IG young Hcrefords, medium 255.’; 15 P-A.-Hereford cross. good condition. 3'ls.; S Hcrefords. bard condition. 215.; S fresh conditioned young Hcrefords. 275.: S good forward ■ I’. A .-Hereford cross, £2 2s. JERSEY HEIFERS

Yearling Jersey . heifers sold from £2 2.4 Gd to £2- i‘7s; and. older Jersey heifers up to £3 12s 6d.