STORTFORD LODGE SALES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16622, 14 April 1928, Page 16

STORTFORD LODGE SALES

There was a fair attendance at the, Stortford Lodge (Hawke's Bay) sale on Wednesday, when few cattle were yarded. There were only a few pons ot prime bullocks, and these realised from £l2 13s to £l3. ' Fat bullocks varied from £ll 2s 6d to £ll 15s. The demand for cows and heifers showed itself very plainly and though the values offered in many cases did not come up to the idea of the vendors, the. prices, according to condition and size, were very good. rat. cows wont up to £6. A good yarding of heifers resulted in several lots reach-

ing the same price. The average price per head was about £5 10s. In store cattle all classes met with a ready demand. A lino of 25 young *cows brought £4 10s. Ten P.A. yearling heifers went to £3 lO.s. Nine cows brought £4 6s and a line of 18 forward steers £4 ss. A line of three-year-old steers realised £5. Ten store cows and heifers realised £5 10s, and a' lot of vealers were sent in, but the quality was not inductive to good prices, 15 realising £2 7« per head. A good milk cow was sold at £B. There were 6COD sheep yarded. Fat wethers brought 26s 7d to 28s Id. Fat ewes realised 19s 2d to 21s 6d, and lambs. 21s 6d to 23s 9d. In

the stores, 2-th wethers brought 29s 9d, and a line of 4-th wethers realised a similar price. A line of 321 6-year-old ewes brought 17s Id.