FAT CATTLE CHEAPER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27391, 17 May 1950, Page 9

FAT CATTLE CHEAPER

Lorneville Stock Sale PA INVERCARGILL. May 16. Small supplies of fat stock were for T ward at the weekly Lorneville stock sale today. Prices for fat sheen improved slightly, but fat cattle were cheaper and the demand for these was restricted. Store cattle and store sheen sold at values that were firm on recent rates. The store sheep yarding was small. Fat Sh°ep.—Medium-weight wethers of fair nualitv made up most of the small yarding of fat sheep and prices improved on those ruling at last week’s sale. Heavy-weight aged wethers sold to 65s fid; best quality two-tooth wethers, 62s to 64s 6d: medium-weights, 58s to 61s; lighter sorts, 52s to 555; and unfinished, 47s to 495. Good butchers’ ewes sold at from 48s to 50s 9d; handy-weights, 42s to 44s 6d.

Fat Cattle.—Although the fat cattle yarding was small, the offering was still too big for requirements. The demand was limited and a percentage of the ya’-ding was passed in at auction. The cattle that were sold were cheaper bv about £1 a head Best quality handvweieht bullocks sold from £l9 to £2l; light-weights, £l6 to £l7 10s; mediumweight heifers brought £lB to £l9: hsndy-wet°hts. £ls to £l6 10s: small and light-weight sorts, £l2 to £l3 10s Medium-weight voune cows brought £ls to £l6: light and unfinished. £ll 10s to £l7; aged. £9 10s to £lO 10s. Store Cattle.—There was again a good yarding of store cattle, practically the who'e of the entry comprising well-bred, good-conditioned cattle. The market for good sorts, was steady at late rates, but low-condiponed and indifferently-bred lots were hard to sell. Good steer calves made from £7 5s Id to £8 2s 6d: mediums, £5 to £6: smaller, £4 to £5; indifferently bred sorts, £2 10s to £3 10s. Best heifer calves made up to £6 10s; other lots selling, at from £4 to £5; and culls down to £1 10s. Best-conditioned two-and-a-half-vear-old cattle made from £l4 to £15,55; other good lots selling at from £ll 10s to £l2 17s 6d. Best 18-month steers sold to £ll 2s 6d- others selling at from £6 10s to £B. Best-conditioned emetv cows sold to £lO 10s; mediums, £7 to £8 10s; light-conditioned sorts sold at from £3 to £4 10s. In the dairy section cows at nrofit made from £l7 to £2O; factory calvers, £lO to £l2 10s’ aged cows, £5 10s to £7; heifers at profit made to £ls Store Sheep.—The entry of store sheep was very small, but there was a good demand and all classes sold on a firm market. Good medium ewe lambs made up to 555: best wether lambs, to 40s 6d: small wether lambs, 30s to 355; mixed-sex lambs, to 42s 6d Two-tooth ewes sold to 655: four and six-tooth ewes, to 57s 6d: and a pen of four-tooth ewes, 51s. Full-mouth ewes made from 42s to 455; and failing-mouth ewes, 35s to 37s 6d.