Bidding For Rape Lambs At Stortford Lodge Within Well Defined Limits

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 February 1949, Page 8

Bidding For Rape Lambs At Stortford Lodge Within Well Defined Limits

HASTINGS, Last Night (P.A.)--Farmers bid within well defined limits for rape lambs at Stortiord Lodge today, and the market eased by up to Is 6d a head on last week’s sale. The sale offered a wide choice in an exceptionally large yarding of 20,000 head, in which lambs predominated. Buyers could afford to be ! selective, and only the top lines made ; figures approaching value. For older ■ sheep the market was sound, j ’Down cross lambs topped the sale at 33s to 32s 9d, being the best price | paid for woolly wether lambs, The ' best figure for shorn wether sorts was 32s 7d. Big framed four-tooth I wethers sold at 42s 6d, and another I fat and forward line made 42s 4d Five-year ewes reached 39s 9d for an I attractive draft and well-bred two- ; tooths were exchanged at 525. Best ’Down cross lambs made 29s 8d to 335,, others selling at 28s 6d. Woolly! wether lambs of good quality changed i hands at 30s 3d to 32s 9d, with, medium quality at 27s 9d to 28s 3d, 1 and inferior at 23s 6d. Top quality > shorn sorts realised to 32s 7d. Others! made 24s 3d to 29s sd. Good doing five-year ewes were traded at 33s 9d, • with inferior lines at 22s to 26s 6d. 1 Two-tooth ewes realised 45s Id to 525. Two-tooth wethers in medium ; order made 35s 6d, with quality fourtooths at 42s 6d. There was a yarding of 700 storecattle and the market was firm throughout. A consignment of 36 three-off A.A. steers, all fairly for-I ward in condition, was passed at £l6! ss. Two-year A.A. steers were passed I at £l3 7s 6d, but another consignment of 52 sold at £l5. They were thriving cattle. Three-off Hereford bullocks, with a fair amount of size and condition, numbering 32, were passed at £l6 10s, and a second cut of 22 were passed at £l3 17s 6d. A consignment of 47 empty P.A. cows made | £ll Ils. Fifteen P.A. and Hereford;

steers made £l5 4s; 29 forward twoI year P.A. steers made £l3 ss. A pen I of 19 P.A. and Hereford empty twoj year-old heifers sold at £8 Is. Twenty I three-year steers made £l2 16s. A 1 consignment comprising 10 two-off ; and three-off -A.A. heifers brought I £l2. ■ Quality beef sold at values on a par i with those realised last week, but in I ferior sorts were not readily sought i after. There was a yarding of 160 ' head of beef and there was no lack | of bidding early in the sale. A particularly solid draft of 12 heavy Hereford bullocks met with a vigorous demand. The top price was £26 8s 6d, and the range going to £24 8s 6d. The consignment averaged £25 18s 6d Fifteen heavy A.A. bullocks offered later averaged £24 10s, realisations ranging from £25 Ils to £23 13s 6d. They were all beasts of good quality. Other A.A. bullocks made up to £24 18s 6d, prices dropping to £l9 8s 6d for lighter sorts of good quality. Good cow beef made £l5 13s 6d, £l5 8s 6d, £l4 6s down to £l2 Is. Other cow beef made from £l2 18s 6d to £9 8s 6d. A consignment of heavy A.A. heifers made £l6 16s, £l3 10s, and £l2 11s. Other heifers made £l4 18s 6d, £l4 8s 6d, and £l2 13s 6d. Butchers bid with confidence for a fairly large yarding of fat sheep, and values on a par with recent rates were obtained. The ewe quality was not as good as last week, but pens of prime heavy weight wethers were numerous in the entry and were keenly sought after. Prime aged ewes were quoted at up to 30s 7d, medium weights exchanging at 26s Id to 27s 4d, and light at 25s 4d. Prime young ewes realised to 32s 4d. Prime young ’Down cross ewes made 36s to 38s Id. For heavy wethers in prime order butchers paid 42s Id to 45s lOd, lighter bringing 38s 7d to 41s Id. Medium quality lambs changed hands at 33s 9d.