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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 305, 9 December 1931, Page 4

STOCK VALUES

STORTFORD LODGE SALE BETTER QUALITY CATTLE. GOOD SHEEP ENTRY. An average yarding of 150 cattle was penned in the beef section at Stortford Lodge to-day, the quality being superior to the last two weeks. Prime handy weight ox beef showed a slight improvement in price, competition being well sustained for prime cattle. The sale had been proceeding for three-quarters of an hour Wore any prime ox beef was offered, the draw for position in the sale being responsible. A large number of plain cows from dairy herds were included in the cow and heifer section, dry weather, no doubt, causing dairy fanners to reduce their stock to a number compatible with present feed conditions. Some very attractive Polled Angus heifers were sold during the sale, competition being very firm in this class of beef. Drafts of bullocks were sold on account of Messrs Jas. Macfarlane, G. N. Pharazyn and R. Harding. A heavy P.A. bullock sold on account of Mr. Jas. Macfarlane realised tho best price of the sale, £9 2/-. A good quality draft of P.A. heifers was sold ou account Mr. Geo. Neilsen. Prime medium weight ox beef realised 20/-, heavy weights being slightly cheaper per hundred. Prime heifer beef sold at 17/6 per hundred, cows being from 14/- to 16/-. Buyers looked rather askance at low grade dairy vealcrs, vendors being rewarded with as low a price as 1/- per head, which would hardly remunerate them for their trouble of delivering at the sale FAT CATTLE. Bullocks: Prime heavy £8 to £9 2/-, do light £6 10/- to £7 12/-, unfinished £3 10/- to £4 2/6. Helfers: Prime heavy £4 14/6 to £5 7/-, do light £4 4/- to £-1 12/6, unfinished £3 16/- to £4. Cows: Prime heavy £4 5/- to £4 10/-, do light £'3 5/- to £4, unfinished £2 15/- to £2 17/6. Dairy Sorts Prime £2 to £2 12/6, plain 20/- to 30/-. Vealers: Medium 25/- to £1 14/-, small 1/- to 5/-. STORE CATTLE. Small pens of cattle were yarded in the store pens, the quality being only medium, and competition very limited. Six 4-yr bullocks passed at £3 17/6; 15 yearling P.A heifers passed at £1 2/6; 8 aged Shorthorn bullocks, in good condition, passed at £3 18/-. DAIRY CATTLE. The usual assortment was yarded in this section, but they had not been offered when we went to press. FAT SHEEP. There was a large yarding iu this section, mostly fat ewes, the entry being beyond butchers’ requirements. Exporters were not being interested. A prime pen of Leicester cross cows, sold on account of Mr. W. Lockie, realised 8/1, and a pen of Down cross 2-tooths was sold for 11/2. The range of prices for average ewes was much on a par with freezing parity. STORE SHEEP. The entry m this section was well represented by drafts of wethers from CMrig and Big Hill Stations. 698 forward 4-tooth wethers, ex Olrig Station, sold at 9/3; 704 4 and 6-tooth Romney and Corriedale cross wethers, ex Big Hill Station, 600 sold at 7/4, balance at 7/3; 410 m.a. wethers, ex Sherenden, a good line, sold at 9/-; 750 2-tooth wethers, a- well grown line, 8/-; 240 mixed aged woolly ewes, mostly 6-ths, on account Austin and Sons, 9/1; 185 2-th woolly ewes, on account same vendors, 10/10; 248 m.a. woolly wethers, on account same vendors, 10/1; 54 4-th woolly ewes, 9/11; 105 fat and forward shorn wethers, a good lino, 9/10; 70 shorn store ewes, 2/2.