Values at Stortford Lodge Sale

Wanganui Chronicle, 2 October 1947, Page 6

Values at Stortford Lodge Sale

(P.A.) Hastings, Oct. 1 Store cattle values at Stortford Lodge today recovered a little. For anything offering quality there was well sustained demand from a good bench of buyers. The yarding of 1000 head included some good cattle, most of which came forward in genuine station-bred lines, but there were a number of small lines. Values for forward conditioned bullocks ranged from £l6 to £l6 6s, with lighter at £l4 13s to £l4 19s. Threeyear steers made £l3 Is to £l3 2s; good two-year steers, £lO 10s to £ll 17s; lighter, £9 17s to £lO 4s, and yearling steers £8 13s to £9 Is. Empty cows sold at £9 14s. With the market for ox beef overloaded values slumped by up to 50s a head. Female beef, however, sold at ruling rates. Quality ox beef made up nearly half the entry of 270 head, and passings were fairly numerous. A consignment of Hereford bullocks averaged £24, being sold privately, and a draft of 26 prime A.A. beasts sold at from £lB 8s 6d to £23 13s 6d, averaging £2O 9s. Other prime beef sold from £2O 3s 6d to £2l 13s 6d and lighter down to £ll 18s 6d. Heifer beef was in short supply and the demand was keen, with heavy beasts making £l7 Is to £l7 13s 6d, and lighter £l3 18s 6d to £l5 18s 6d. Some very good quality cows were on offer. Heavy sorts realised up to £l6 Is. Well-finished cows ranged from £l3 13s 6d to £l5 8s 6d, with a line at from £l3 8s 6d to £l5 8s 6d. Medium cows from other sources were traded at £ll Ils to £l2 3s 6d, unfinished making £8 8s 6d to £lO Is. Runners changed hands at up to £l2 13s 6d and vealers at £3 14s to £5 2s 6d.

While values for store hoggets were firm, ewes and lambs, which were in more plentiful supply in a yarding of 2500 head, were easier by up to 2s a head. Good ewe hoggets realised 41s Id, others making 40s Bd. Wether hoggets were traded at from 36s 5d to 375. Top price for ewes and lambs was 27s 9d, paid for a line which included particularly good lambs. Other ewes and lambs sold at from 20s 5d to 355, all counted. A consignment of meaty two-tooth wethers off the shears attracted attention, to sell at 33s 9d. Other shorn two-tooth wethers made 32s Id and a line of woolly wethers was traded at 38s 3d. A sharp advance of 2s to 3s a head In values for ewes and the appearance of the first spring lamb season were highlights in the fat sheep sale, when 1000 nead came forward. A lamb, which was estimated by good judges to be about 381 b. cn the hooks realised 38s 4d. Extra prime young ewes were sold at from 42s Id to 45s lOd, with prime young ewes at 40s lOd. Extra prime older ewes sold at up to 40s Id, prime at. 35s 7d to 38s 4d, and lighter at 30s lOd to 31s lOd. Young shorn ewes made 33s Id to 35s Id, with older shorn ewes at from 22s 4d to 29s lOd. Heavy wethers realised 49s Id to 39s lOd; prime. 47s 4d, and lighter 38s Id to 435. Good hoggets made 38s 4d, 44s 4d; lighter, 31s 4d to 36s 4d.