LIVE STOCK MARKETS

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1938, Page 12

LIVE STOCK MARKETS

this week's sales

many prices decline yardings at hastings

Hastings, Nov. 30. With a return of hot weather the demand for fat cattle at Stortford Lodge to-day was not particularly keen, and only best lines excited competition. Poorer sorts were slow of sale and showed a drop of up to 20s a head. Ox beef was in very short supply; no extra prime animals were yarded. The top price was £13 for a heavy bullock, which would work out at about 31s a 1001b. Heifers made up to £10 5s, averaging to 31s a 1001b, and cows to £8 7s, averaging 26s a 1001b. The store cattle yarding was a short one and included some good quality lines. Competition, however, was restricted and prices if anything showed an easing tendency. Cows made to £5 13s, three-year heifers to £4 14s, twovear steers to £6 18s, and yearling heifers to £5 5s. The demand for fat sheep was steady throughout and a yarding of 500 represented better quality than last week's. Fat lambs were in very keen demand and made up to 26s 3d for a small pen which would kill out at about 381b. The yarding of store sheep was about 2000, the bulk being two-tooth wethers, the best of which brought up to 16s lld. The sale generally was a dragging one and- passings were numerous. Some realisations were: — Fat cattle: A single large-framed Hereford bullock, prime finish, made £15; a pair o'f horped Hereford bullocks in the same line, also prime finish made £10 5s; and the last beast in a pen of P.A.-Hereford bullocks, prime finish, made £11 15s ld; a single large-framed P.A. bullock in prime order made £14; two similarly bred bullocks in the same pen, slightly lighter finish, to £12 2s 6d; prime Polled Angus heifers made £7 12s 6rl to £10s 5d; a pair of Shorthorn heifers, medium grown but in prime order, made £7 12s 6d; a well-grown P»A.-

Hereford cross heifer in prime order made £8; one line of medium-grown Hereford heifers realised to £7 ls. Account of Mr. G. Nelson, a pen of five well-grown P.A. heifers, prime finish, made to £8 17s; a pen from same source, comprising five similarly bred heifers, sound quality, ranged from £8 12s to £9 3s; five well-grown P.A. cows, good condition, brought to £7 11s; a pen of similar cows not so well finished made £7 10s; a line of seven P.A. cows, medium grown, but requiring sbme finish, made up to £6 15s; five similarly conditioned P.A. and P.A.-Hereford cross cows brought up to £6 15s; a pair of P.A.Heijeford cross cows made £8 15s; two P.A. cows, medium grown, made £7 7s 6d; a mixed line of P.A. and P.A.-Here-ford cross and Hereford cows, medium to prime finish, ranged up to £7 7s 6d; a pen of five Herefored cows, well finished, realised up to £6 15s; a solidly framed P.A.-Hereford cross cow, prime finish, topped the market at £8 7s; three other similar bred cows made to £7 15s; a line of five P.A. cows, well grown, prime finish, made up to £7 18s; a wellgrown P.A.-Hereford cross vealer made £3 5s; a single P.A. runner steer, well grown, £3 5s; a well grown runner steer, £3 2s 6d; a solidly grown P.A.-Hereford cross runner heifer £4 5s. Store cattle: A draft of 29 P.A. and P.A. cross cows, off hill country, in forward condition, made to £5 13s accotrnt of Mr. J. Alexander, Waihau, 29 well-grown P.A. heifers realised to £4 14s; a line of 29 two-year Hereford and P.A.-Hereford cross steers made to £6 18s; account of Mr. H. R. Clark,. an even line of 20 P.A. cows in good store order, made to £5 13s; a draft of P.A. yearling heifers, fairly grown and in good order, made to £3 5s; a draft of yearling Hereford heifers, even ''and medium grown, made to £3. Fat sheep: Prime fat ewes made up to 17s and 18s 6d, average sorts Us to Us 6d; lambs ranged from 20s 6d for animals that -would kill out at 281b and to 26s 3d for a pen of three which would hang up at 371b; others ranging in weight from 301b to 361b brought 24s to 25s. The top price was for a line offered account of Mr. J. Morgan, Raupare. Woolly hoggets brought to 22s 6d for a single pen on offer, and wethers sold at 18s to 19s for better sorts. Store sheep: Account of Mrs. H. Clark a line of 129 two-tooth wethers in forward order and early shorn made to 163 4d; a line of 127 two-tooth wethers, with a few two-tooth ewes included and in good condition, made to 16s lOd; 89 well-conditioned two-tooth wethers excited keen competition and sold at 16s Ud; an early shorn line of two-tooth and four-tooth ewes, well framed, made to 17s 4d; a line of two-tooth wethers, medium groWn, to 14s; an early shorn line of 16 fat and forward wethers made to 15s 6d; five young woolly ewes with lambs made 18s ld, all counted; 20 two and four-tooth wethers, fairly grown, made to 13s Ud, sold on the all-counted basis; a line of 31 well-woolled ewes and 31 well-finished lambs made to 10s 3d.