STORTFORD LODGE SALE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 4 September 1929, Page 8

STORTFORD LODGE SALE

GOOD QUALITY CATTLE OFFERED EASIER PRICES FOR FAT SHEEP There was a moderately big entry of fat cattle at Stortford Lodge to-day, many of the pens offered being of exceptionally prime quality. Several pens of heifers from Mr. L. Higgins were of outstanding quality, and fetched prices ranging from £l4 2/to £l4 18/-, while a pen of four bullocks topped off by Mr. G. Purvess on account of Mr. R. Harding were the primest line seen in the beef pens this year. These realised £lB. There was also an unusually big entry of store cattle for this time of the year, some of the lines being of attractive quality. Store cattle sold well, even for inferior sorts and there was no lack of competition. There was a big yarding of dairy cattle, including a number of springing heifers. These did not appear to sell so well as at recent sales, probably because most dairy farmers have now their full complement for the season-

Fat sheep were represented by two full races, and possibly on account of the increased supply showed an easing of prices equal to about 2/- per head on last week. There were, however, an unusual number of pens of superior quality. Store sheep were not yarded in any considerable numbers though there were more than last week. Several pens of fair to good hoggets sold well, registering a rise in values of 1/- to 2/- on recent sales. The store sheep sale was in progress when wo went to press. Following were the prices realised:— FAT CATTLE. Prime heavy (extra)' Cows: Prime heavy £ll 5/- to £l2 5/- (some very prime stock); prime light £lO to £ll 4/-; medium £9 to £10; dairy sorts, heavy, £7 10/- to £8 5/-. Heifers: Prime heavy (extra) £l4 2/- to £l4 18/-; prime heavy £l3 BZto £l3 10/-; prime light £ll 17/6: medium £lO 3,6; light and unfinished £8 to £8 10/-. Vealers: Big £3 7/- to £4 8/-i small £2 6/- to £2 17/-. ’ STORE CATTLE. 41 fine 2-yr. P.A.-H. first x steers in good store cond. and well grown, £9 2/-; 28 2j-yr. P.A. x steers rather mixed and not so well grown, account W. G. Stead, £9; 20 well bred and well grown Hereford rising 3-yr. steers, condition good, passed at £9 17/6; 23 mixed yearling x 2-yr. P.A.H. steers, hard cond. and not well grown, well sold at £5 16/6; 13 Hereford and Hereford x 3-yr. steers in good nick and well grown, £10; 11 dairy Shorthorn weaners passed at £3 7/6; 8 station-bred steers, mixed breeds and sizes, fetched £4 12/6; 3 2-yr. smaller steers £4 4/-; 6 small yearling Hcref. x Shorthorn cross steers £5 1/-; 13 Jer. 5-yr. hard cond. steers £4 10/-; 13 Jer. 7 J-yr. blks in hard cond. £5 16/-; 16 good P.A. 2 and 3-yr. steers in fresh cond. £9 5/-; 10 3-yr. Shorthorn steers in fair store cond., £8 10/-; 7 mixed hard cond, steers £5 5/-.

Cows and Heifers: 27 dehorned Here!, cows, been with P.A. bull, hard cond, and some small, from Waikaremoana district, £7 fO/-; 17 hard cond. mixed station cows from same district, been with Heref. bull, £6 18/6; 16 very nice P.A.-H. x yearling heifers in great order and well grown, ex Maraetotara, £4 14/6: 18 small station weaners, mixed breeding. £3 10/-; 4 weaner heifers, mixed. £2 10/-; 2 emp. Shorthorn heifers, fair frames, store cond., £6 5/-; 2 Sh. x heifers, fair frames and store cond., £6 7/6; 2 Heref. x heifers, fair cond., £6 10/-; 1 Hol. cow with calf at foot £4 6/-; 3 hard and small Heref. heifers £3 7/-; 6 P.A.-H. x hard cond. cows, i.c. P.A. bull, £6 13/6. DAIRY CATTLE. 1 emp. Hol. x cow, light, £3; 1 do £4 7/-; 1 do £3 17/6; 1 Jer. x cow with calf at foot £5 7/6; 1 Jer. x cow, no guar., £3 15/-: 1 low cond. Jer. cow, unsound, £3 9/6; 2 low cond. heifers £2 5/-; 3 Jer. x weaner heifers £1 6/-; 1 Jer. x epg. heifer passed at £6; 1 Jer. spg. heifer, fair to good, sold at £8; 2 dairy Shorthorn x due October. 1 at £4 17/6, 1 at £3 17/6; 1 Jer heifer just calved, fair show, £9 15/-; 1 Jer. spg. heifer, good but'small, £lO 5/-; I do fair £8; 1 do late coming in £9 5/-: 1 Shorthorn do, a nice heifer i.c. Jer. £7 17/6; 1 do £6 10/-: 1 Jer. heifer i.c. Jer., cheap at £5 5/-; 9 spg. Jer. x heifers, picks sold at 1 at £8 5/-. 2 at £7 15/-, 2 at £5 2/6 and 3 at £4. Several lots of dairy cattle were 'sold after the commencement of the fat sheep sale and hence are not reported.) FAT SHEEP. Ewes: Extra prime heavy 30/4, prime heavy 28/- to 29/-, prime light 27/- to 27/9, medium 25/6 to 26/-, light 23/6 to 24/6, unfinished 21/6 to 22/-. Wethers: Prime heavy 33/- to 34/6, prime light passed at 31/7, medium fetched 29/7. Hoggets: Prime light 25/9, medium 23/3 to 24/-. Maiden Ewes: Big and prime 33/to 33/2, smaller 26/- to 29/-. STORE SHEEP. Hoggets: 167 m.s. woolly hogs., B fair to good line in fresh and healthy cond.’, 25/6: 140 m.s. woolly hogs. 1 mark, well woollod. good oond., smallish. 24/11; 63 small woolly ewa hogs., healthy. 25/9: 50 small woolly weds., same farm, 24/10. Ewes: 195 m.s. small framed ewes i.l. Rom. and S.D.. late lambing but quite useful sheep, passed at 16/-.