Stortford Lodge Entry Small, Prices Rise

Northern Advocate, 25 January 1940, Page 7

Stortford Lodge Entry Small, Prices Rise

[Per Press Association. Copyright.l HASTINGS, This Day.

There was a limited yarding of only 60 fat cattle at Stortford Lodge. This was responsible for a keen demand and rising prices. Fat cattle. —Bullocks, tops, £l2 5/ to £l2 10/; lighter sorts, £lO 17/6 to £ll 19/; smaller grown, £lO 4/ to £lO 10/; heifers, tops, £lO 1/ to £lO 11/; smaller, £9 7/6; small, light pens, £5 10/ to £6 10/; cows. tops. £9 2/ to £94/; medium-framed, £8 1/ to £8 5/; vealers, to £8 10/; runners, to £4 7/6. Store cattle. —Steers, £7 17/6; older, £9 to £9 2/; small grown, £5 7/6; small, 16 months’ steers, £3 15/ to £4 10/.

Store sheep.—-Forward Down-cross lambs, 20/1 to 20/5; good Romney pens, 18/6 to 19/9; medium pens, 16/ to 17/; small, 14/ to 15/6; smallest, 8/ to 12/; forward wethers, 19/ to 20/3; two-tooth, 16/; aged ewes, 15/6; light, two to six-tooth, to 20/6. Fat sheep.—Ewes, 16/ to 18/6; tops, 19/6 to 25/6; light wethers, 16/; heavier pens, 22/ to 23/2; fat lambs, 22/8 to 25/3.