STORTFORD LODGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 16, 16 December 1937, Page 5

STORTFORD LODGE.

HASTINGS, Dec. 15. ' A better yarding and keener demand, Particularly for - store sheep, wore features Sf the‘ Stortford Lodge live stock sale today. There was a sound market .for tax cattle and although values showed a drop l head on the extreme price* paid last week, due to. a very short yarding, •ox beef niade 36s a 1001 b and heifer 31s 6d; there was a very firm tone throughput for store .sheep, the nrst hne of store lambs offered this season mak ng 19s 70. The fat sheep market showed little mo despite the fact that the yarding was.veiy "Tit cattle,—Horned heavy pnme_ Hereford cows, extra good order, £lO 10s, well finished heavy prime Hereford co\\s, 5s- four heavy well-finished Aberdeen Angus cross bollocks showing prime quality £l3 8s 6d; a single heavy prune Shorthorn bullock, £l4 10s; five dehorned Hereford bullocks, smaller than the previous pen but equally well finished, £IZ 15s- dehorned Hereford and Aberdeen Angus heifers, medium grown and sold; ly finished, showing . prune quality throughout, up to £lO 18s; small oxtui prime Shorthorn heifer, £9,; Shorthorn cross prime heifer, show mg. extra'good quality, top of the market at £ll 15s • extra prime medium-grown llenc*. ford heifer, £lO ss; well-finished mcdmniframed Aberdeen Angus. and Hereford lieifors, sliowing good quality, up to Store sheep.—l3o of a ’ line of 682 me-dium-grown early-shorn four-tooth ivctlicis brought 23s 6d, balance passed at -this price; 427 well-grown early-shorni twotooth wethers, 22s 4d for the first ■ 300, re-mainder-.-making 22s 7d; . 98 fat . forward Southdown cross two-iooths in good condition 21s sd; 61 early-shorn -'two-tooth wethers, 21s 9d; two-tooth wethers,:-for-ward order, 22s 6d ; two-tooth wethers, medium to good storo order, 21s 8d; railed from Wairca, 94 Down cross lambs,, tiledium to well grown and in forward 01-der, 19s- ,7d; 107 two-tooth, wethers, miscellaneous ’ sorts, 21s; exceptionally ;- good Down cross' two-tooth . wethers, sp'endid condition, 22s 6d; trucked from Wai'roa, medium-grown Southdown lambs, 19s 4d. Fat sheep.—Ewes brought to 18s 3d; lighter ewes down to 16s. Lambs brought 22s to 25s 3d, and' a line of Leicester's averaging 30lb - sold at 23s 6d. ,