Stable Market for Waipukurau Sale

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 64, 17 March 1937, Page 2

Stable Market for Waipukurau Sale

VERY FEW PENS OF QUALITY FAT SHEEP HEIFERS REACH TO £9 From Our Own Correspondent. WAIPUKURAU, March 16. A stable market, with steady selling, was experienced at to-day’s sale at Waipaikuxau for both cattle and sheep. No ox beef was offering, thß .good .quality .in female cattle being confined to two or three pens of young prime, medium weight Aberdeen Angus cows, which made to £7 18/-. An extra prime line of young heifers made £9. Tho chief entries In the store cattle section were pens of empty Aberdeen Angus cows in forward condition on account of Onepate and Aramoana Stations, which realised to £6 13/-. Useful station steers were not on offer, and heifers were confined to a few very small entries. Very few pens of quality fat sheep were yarded, most of the lambs being small grown and light in condition, requiring more finishing. The owes made freezing schedule rates, and the few pens of wethers were medium weights. The yarding (fi 9000 store eheej consisted largely of lambs and wethers with fair entries of breeding ewes. Realisations were as under: — The dry weather and the reductioi in freezing schedule rates aocount ia the lamb market meeting with easie selling. Forward lots made to 18/6 and the best forward wethers bfougb 23/6. FAT CATTLE. On account of Mr. D. F. McHardy Onepato Station, five medium to heavy prime-quality, solidly-finished Aberdeen Angus cows, in splendid order, realised £7 18/-. On account of the same vendor, five smaller-framed, equally well-finished, similarly-bred cows brought £7. Seven Jersey cross heifers, quite well grown and carrying a lot of condition, sold at £5 18/6. On account of Mr. Forbes McHardy Aramoana Station, 20 medium-framed Aberdeen Angus cows, well finished and of useful weight, sold at £7 15/-. Two medium to heavy extra prime clean-bred Aberdeen-Angus heifers, particularly well finished, fine quality young beef, realised £9. Two Polled heifers, rather larger framed and prime finished, in splendid order, also sold at £9. A single heavy good-quality, dehorned cow* in from Elsthorge, made £8 15/-, In the same pen, two lighter, similar-ly-bred, cows brought £7 5/-* STORE CATTLE. On account of Mr Douglas McHardy, Onepoto Station, 33 clean-bred Aberdeen Angus cows, in forward condition and in good finishing order, sold at £6 11/-. On account of Mr Forbes McHardy, 26 clean-bred Aberdeen Angus cows, in very forward condition and should finish off readily to show prime quality, met the market at £6 13/-. On account of the same vendor, 12 young dehorned Hereford, cows in good order brought £6 2/-. An entry of 8 empty Aberdeen Angus cross cows, with 8 well-grown hardy calves by an Aberdeen Angus bull at foot, were passed at £7 7/6. A small entry of 30-month Aberdeen Angus heifers, medium grown, sold at £5 1/-. A small entry of 18-mth Red Polled heifers, medium grown and in good order, brought £3 15/-. FAT SHEEP. An entry of 48 small-grown, mediumquality, black-faced lambs, line from Argyll, made 19/-. From the same source, a pen pf 36 woolly white-faced lambs, in light to medium order, made 19/-. An entry from Argyll, of 24 medium quality ewes, carrying a good slipe, realised 18/7. Fattened on a dairy farm, 12 small to medium-grown prime quality Down j cross lambs realised 22/6. An entry of 33 woolly black-faced | lambs, light to medium finish, made 20/-. A very prime line of 42 mediuragjrowu Down cross wethers, a fine quality mutton entry, sold at 22/2. Down from Argyll 23 well-framed medium-finished wethers, being good summer mutton, realised 26/-. A small entry of maiden, 4 and 0-tli owes, prime finished, brought 20/-. A line of 24 light to medium ewes, in freezing order, made 17/4. Nine well-framed, early shorn primo finished wethers, brought 26/10. An entry of 89 small grown, light finished black face lambs, in store order, made 17/10. A small entry of medium-grown Down cross lambs made 24/-. STORE SHEEP. On account Tamumu Station, 225 late shorn wether lambs, medium grown and in. sound order realised 15/-. On entry of 238 late small to- medium grown lambs in quit© good condition being in much better order than they looked, were passed at 16/1. On account A. H. Hood, Ciwarns, 222 medium grown woolly white-face ewes in sound hardy order, made 25/11. On account Stratford Bros. 128 wellframed 6-year ewes, well mouthed, being out with Southdown ranis since March 1, and carrying a good slipe, made 21/4. Off lijll country at Porangahau, 192 small to medium grown early shorn 2-th ewes, uneven in quality made 26/1. Down from Gisborne and on account Mr H. Bridge, an entry of 991 early shorn well-grown 2-th wethers, in sound order, were sold at 23/6. The good condition of these wethers showed that they had been well driven by road An entry of medium grown white face wether lambs in light condition but in sound order, brought 14/-.

On account Tamumu Station, 179 6year ewos, poorly mouthed, a good fattening proposition, a iarg© percentage xsing readily finished off, brought 14/11. On account G. Severenson, 160 2, and t-th ewes, small grown, early shorn, vere passed at 27/1. On account A. Johnston, Wanstead, ui entry of medium grown black-face ambs, in quite fair store order, made 16/-. An entry of 282 small-grown, shorn, vhite-face lambs, jn light condition, nad© 12/4. A well-woolled line of 315 white-face, ‘airly well grown wether lfimbs, the 'Ops in forward order, were passed at LB/1. On account Mrs L. Collins, Homewood, Otaue, 390 small grown, blaek:ace lambs, uneven in condition, the iops being in quit© fair order, made 15/7. On account Mr A. L. McCormick, Marakeke, 117 2 and 4-th Down cross iwes, in fine condition, nil killable, irought 22/7. \ In from Wilder Settlement, 106 aged iwes, in very low condition sold at 78. In from Porangahau, 161 early shorn, ight in condition small grown owes, a larry-over line, brought 25/9.