LAMBS SELL WELL

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 95, 5 April 1934, Page 9

LAMBS SELL WELL

Stortford Lodge Sale FEW BREEDING EWES Approximately 12,000 store sheep were entered at Stortford Lodge yesterday, lambs predominating in the entry. Ewes were in moderate supply, while very few wethers were offered. The quality of the yarding was mixed, there being some good lambs entered, but the ewes offered included relatively few lines of good breeding sheep. On lambs the market was on a par to slightly easier on last week. Ewes made rates which showed little change, and wethers were much the same. On all good lines demand was fairly steady, but on poorer sorts there was not a great deal of competition. Some of the entries and prices paid, from which an idea of the state of the market may be obtained, were as follow:— A line of 122 well-framed Romney crossbred woolly wether lambs carrying plenty of condition, started out at 13/9 to realise 15/9, passing at this figure. In from Haumoana, a pen of 86 fattening ewes, well-framed and carrying good store to forward order, sold at 14/6. In from Argyle and on account of Mr McMillan, a pen of 95 woolly whiteface wether lambs, well-framed and in good order, realised 16/10. Small-framed and carrying light finish, a pen of 101 woolly wether lambs realised 13/-. Mixed in the wool, mixed in the mouths and fairly framed, a pen of 45 store conditioned 5-yr. ewes, down from the Kaiwakas, sold at 13/9. Sixty-four shorn whiteface wether lambs, fairly framed and carrying good store to forward order, made 1481. A bid of 17/1 secured a pen of 45 Romney crossbred wether lambs wellgrown and woolled, and in from Crownthorpe. A line of 105 whiteface wether lambs, down from the Kaiwakas and offered on account of Mb H. Burke, store-con-ditioned and mixed as to size, sold at 11/8. Down from Patoka, a pen of 180 Romney crossbred ewe lambs, mixed ag to size, fairly woolled and storeconditioned, made 12/9. A line of 152 wether lambs from the same property realised 9/8. Fairly framed and store-conditioned, a pen of 94 aged ewes met the market at 14/5. A bid of 16/6 secured a pen of 75 whiteface wether lambs, well-grown and in good order. A Tulrituki draft of 98 good storeconditioned wether lambs made 16/-. A Spring Hill Station draft of 55 blackface lambs, in good store order and fairly grown, realised 17/4. A pen of Romney crossbred lambs from the same property made 16/10. Well-wooled and forward-conditioned, a pen of 45 2-th wethers, carrying good condition, sold out pt 19/1, A pen of 101 store-conditioned whiteface lambs, small-framed, went at 13/-.