LIVESTOCK MARKETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 179, 1 August 1941, Page 8

LIVESTOCK MARKETS

STORTFORD LODGE Hastings, July 30. Six-year-old in-lamb ewes, with faulty mouths, which made 21s 6d, were the feature in to-day's store sheep sale at Stortford Lodge, when an unusually small number, under 1000, were penned. No top lines were on offer. Ryeland cross ewe hoggets brought 275. others, small, off high country, making 21s. Good handling woolly wether hoggets brought 20s Id. others, extra forward 22s sd, and mediumgrown Down cross 17s 9d. Mixed aged in-lamb ewes brought 265, empty forward ewes making 9s 9d.

Little change was shown in the beef market. Compared with last week's market there was a heavy yarding of 283 head, in which quality was again well featured, being above the usual standard of a winter offering. Ox beef was in good supply and consisted of several peas of three-year A.A. steers ranging from £lO 8s 6d to £ll 6s. Female pens again provided butchers with a good selection of quality, which included a fine draft of A.A. cows and heifers on account Mokopeka station. The cows brought from £8 10s to £lO 3s 6d, and the heifers from £lO Is to £ll 3s 6d. On account Kahuranaki station, a draft of A.A. heifers sold to £9 18s 6d, averaging £9 5s 91, and cows to £9 18s 6d, averaging £8 17s 6d. Aged horned and dehorned Hereford cows in plain order made from £6 6s to £7 Is, good A.A. vealers from £4 to £5 Is. others, smaller-grown, from £2 8s to £3 Ils. New high levels in values for store cattle were reached when weaner steers realised to £5 10s, and empty forward cows to £6 4s. A yarding of

more than 800 head included several annual dafts of well-known stations, which were in good order and well grown. The selling was followed by a large attendance, including several outside buyers. Though a few lines on account of absentee vendors were passed in, they were traded privately afterward.