FIRM SELLING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 163, 26 June 1935, Page 6

FIRM SELLING

HASTINGS FAT CATTLE Smaller Entry Offered VALUES EASE TOWARDS CLOSE With a smaller entry of fat cattle, the sale in this section at to-day’s sale at Stortford Lodge was keen, with competition very spirited during the earlier part of the auction, and values realised showed a firming tendency. With the progress of the selling, however, prices came back to last week's levels, and several of the lighter and poorer quality lines were passed in. Quality cattle sold firmly throughout, under steady competition. To-day’s fat cattle entry totalled approximately 300 head, the store cattle entry being of similar size, there being a decided fall on the size of last week’s entry. Bullocks were in moderate supply, and were chiefly medium weight cattle, while cows and heifers were of average quality, there being several prime pens of female beef yarded. There were few big station lines entered this .week, the majority of the drafts being small lots. A selection of the entries and prices paid, from which an idea of the state of the market may be obtained, is as follows:—

HEIFER RATES. Two P.A. crossbred heifers, medium framed and finished, made £5 2/6. Three P.A. crossbred heifers, medium framed and lightly finished, realised £4 16/-. A light crossbred P.A heifer sold at £1 9/-. A single big framed P.A. heifer, weighty and well finished, made £6 2/-. A medium framed P.A. heifer, of prime quality, sold at £5 16/-. A single 'Hereford heifer, medium framed, nuggety and prime, sold strongly at £5 18/-. Two Shorthorn-Hereford heifers, offered on account of Mr O. Nelson, fairly grown and medium prime, made £5 11/-, a further heifer selling at £5 4/-. BULLOCK VALUES. A single Red Poll bullock, medium framed and lightly finished, realised £7. Five dehorned Hereford bullocks, medium framed to fairly finished, quality cattle medium finished, sold out at £7 19/-. A further pen made £7 18/-. A single Shorthorn bullock, fairly framed and lightly finished, made £7 16/-. A single P.A. bullock, medium framed and nicely finished, realised £8 A pair of crossbred Hereford bullocks, medium framed and finished, made £7 10/-. Three lighter bullocks in the same pen sold at £6 10/-. A single P.A. bullock, well grown and prime realised £7 10/-. Seven Hereford bullocks, young cattle, medium to fairly framed, nicely finished, sold at £7 10/- for three, the remainder passing at £7 2/6. A single P.A. bullock in from Apley station, well grown and prime, met the market at £9 7/-. Five Hereford bullocks, all dehorned, fairly framed and light to medium finished, sold out at £B. COW PRICES. A pair of dehorned Hereford cows, fairly framed and finished, realised £4 13'6 Four P.A. cows, fairly grown, mixed in finish, made £4 6/-. A single .Shorthorn cow, medium flamed and quite well finished, cold at Cl 17/6, a further Shorthorn making £5. A big frauiefi crossbred P.A. cow, plum, sold at Cl 17,6. Three P.A. and Hereford cows, big framed cattle, carrying prime heavy order met the market at £6 5/-. A further two cows, prime, made £5 16/-. Two Hereford cows, well framed and quite’ well finished, good cutting, realised £4 16/-, a further two selling <ll the same figure. Four P.A. imrs. fairlv framed and finished, realised £1 16 - A further three cows sold at .£ I 17/-, while six more made Cl 10/- and £1 8/6 in cuts. A pair of Hereford cows, quite well grown, one better finished than the other, sold out at £5 10/-. A single prime heavy Shorthorn cow, big framed, offered on account of Mr Oswald Nelson, Mangateretere. met strong competition to sell at £6 10/-..