LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 192, 16 August 1940, Page 3

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

STORTFORD LODGE HASTINGS, Aug. 14. A sharp rise of 3s a head for wether hoggets, most of which were culls, was recorded at the Stortford Lodge stock sale to-day, when only a small yarding was forward. Fat and forward woolly wether hoggets topped the market for the season at 25s 6d. Small to medium but light lines made 20s 6d. with culls making dear buying at 18s 3d. The ewe hoggets penned were small cull lots, and made 225. The only good line of in-lamb ewes was a pen of low-set twotooths, which included a few older sheep and had been run with Romney rams. They realised 37s 6d, the highest price for the season by a margin of several shillings. The only pen of five-year-old ewes offered were not good sorts to sell well at 265. Beef values recovered most of the drop made last week. Ox beef realised fully 40s to a shade better a 1001 b. Values ranged from £l2 7s 6d to £l2 7s Gd, with the tops making £l4 12s 6d. Best cow beef made from £lO 12s 6d to £ll 7s 6d, with medium entries making from £9 2s 6d to £lO 2s 6ci. In the small heifer entry the best offered realised from £ll 2s 6d to £l2 2s 6d. Prices for a draft of several pens of light, smallgrown sorts, hardly killable, ranged from £5 17s 6d to £6 12s 6d. The yarding of store cattle was small. Mixed-bred cows, chiefly dairy sorts with calves, brought £4 Is.