CATTLE RATES DOWN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19883, 9 March 1939, Page 15

CATTLE RATES DOWN

STORE SHEEP FIRM STORTFORD LODFE (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. There was a short yarding of stock at the weekly sale at Stortford Lodge yesterday, when about 230 head of cattle, 3000 store sheep and 500 fat sheep came forward. No store cattle were offered. Except for quality lines, in the cattle market prices again showed a slight decline. Heifers realised .118 Is and £8 17r, 6d respectively. The store sheep market was slow and competition was clack. Prices, in the main, were firm. At the end of the sale a number of rams were offered. Southdowr.s made gns., and Romneys 3 gns. Prime cows made from £7 lGs to £8 Is 4d for tops, medium £5 15s to £G 15" for the heaviest. Runners and vealers sold at from £3 12s to £4 2s Gd, and small and light 24s to £2 2s. A few wethers on offer made to 10s 4d, two-tooths 10s to 19s, five-year 11s Id to 13s, six-tooth 17s: ewe lambs 14s Id; wether lambs 11s Id to 14s Id, medium 10s 3d to 11s, small 8s Id; extra prime ewes 14s to 15s 4d, prime lCs to lis 9d, medium 8s 4d to 9s Gd, and poor and aged 6s to 7s 9d; Southdowns 14s to lGs, and the heaviest of the remainder 10s to 12s; heavy prime lambs 22s 8d to 2Cs 9d, medium 20s 2d to 225, and light 17s to 17s 10d; wethers, lGs to 18s lOd.