CATTLE DEARER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 64, 27 February 1935, Page 8

CATTLE DEARER

BRISK COMPETITION Prices at Stortford To-day STORE SHEEP FIRM Brisk bidding and strong selling characterised the market in the fat cattle section at to-day’s sale at Stortford Lodge, when, with a short entry, values were still further improved on last week’s rates. Cows made to £8 9/-, while heifers and bullocks realised to £8 11/2 and £9 12/- respectively. In comparison with last week’s prices, to-day’s realisations showed an advance of from 25/- to £2, according to quality, poorer sorts of cattle being least affected. The short entry was the cause of tho rise local butchers I eing keenly interested. Values slackened oft towards the close of the sale, but all the prices realised were definitely in advance of the previous sale. Some ot the entries and prices paid, from which an idea of the state of the market may bo obtained, are as follows :— BULLOCK VALUES. Three I'.A. bullocks well framed and medium finished, sold strongly at £9 12/-. Ihree P.A. bullocks, medium framed and lightly to medium furnished, made £8 15/-. A single P.A. bullock, medium framed and finished, met the market at £9. COW PRICES. Six P.A. cows, well framed and finished, realised £6, a further six making £5 15/-. A pen ot five P.A. cows, well framed, and medium finished, met tho market at £6 2/ . A further five made £5 5/tor lour, oue making £5 10/-. A pair ot P.A. cows, wed grown and medium finished met good competition to sell out at £6 14/-. A pair of well-grown prime P.A. cows realised £8 9/-. In the same pen four lighter cattle made £7 10/-. A Mokopeka Station entry of five Hereford cows, all delivered, medium framed, made £0 18/-. A turther pen ot four realised £6 17/-. Two Hereford cows, well framed and finished, realised £7 5/-; three more in the same pen making £7 10/-. A forward to lightly-finished pen of six P.A. cows, mixed as to size, realised £1 5/- and £2 10/-, one pen being passed iu, HEIFER RATES. A pair of Hereford crossbred heifers, dehorned, medium trained and finished, sold at £6 13,-. Two medium-framed and lightly finished P.A. heiters realised £6 2/6. Two well-grown and finished I’.A. heifers met the market at £8 11/-. STORE SHEEP. The store sheep sale commenced briskly, and up to noon prices realised were very firm, with vendors generally well satisfied. Some of the entries and prices paid are as follow:— A Waiwhare Station entry of fourtooth ewes, offered on account of Mr. Walter C. Ensor, fairly framed, principally strong woolled, in active st'/re order, made 23/-. A pen of 240 white-face lambs, medium framed and in good order, realised 13/-. A Te Whaka Station draft of 457 five-year ewes, well mouthed, fairly framed, mixed in the wool, store conditioned, sold at 19/1. An Eland Station draft, from the Te Pohue district, 457 five-year ewes, lightly framed, store conditioned, fairly well mouthed, mixed in the wool, made 17/7. A further Te Whaka entry, 500 twotooth wethers, medium framed and in light store order, somewhat mixed, sold well at 19/-. A draft of 239 two-tooth wethers, small framed and light, passed at 16/-. A pen of 137 five-year ewes, fairly mouthed, lightly framed, mixed in the wool, realised 17/5.