Less Buoyancy In Cattle Market At Stortford Lodge

Wanganui Chronicle, 2 November 1950, Page 10

Less Buoyancy In Cattle Market At Stortford Lodge

HASTINGS, Last Night (PA).—Although bids again came from all ( points of the rostrunr at Stortford Lodge today as district farmers sought j to obtain cattle to cope with excess • pasture growth, the market lacked a little of the buoyanev of last week. Nevertheless, although several lines were passed in, there was no appreciable easing in prices. Outside buyers 1 entered the market, but the main | buying power once more was provided I by district farmers. A record price for this season of £2O 5s for two-year steers was paid for a well-bred, good conditioned A.A. line. The season’s best price for empty cows of £lB Is was also set for a big-framed line. The entry of 773 head contained s n me good station rattle Bullocks were passed in at £2~ 12s 6d. Good twe year steers realised from £ l B 15s to £2O ss. smaller at £l7 110 s. and yearling steers at from £ll 5s to £l4 12s. Empty cows ranged from i £l2 15s to £lB Is, and emptv th’eeI »'ear heifers from £lO 5s to £2O 10s. iTwo-vear heifers sold at £l6 6s, and , yearling heifers at £ll 2s 6d. ; Values for breed : n~ ewes, and for I wcollv ewes wit’’ I —"t fnnt conj ♦’nued to soar. New peak prices f I these classes of farming prcpositior r . were set rs buyers asserted the “grass” demand. Shorn wethers were at about i a par on last week’s rates, with the 1 second .grade lines down by about Is a head.

The shorn two-tooth ewe market firmed by about 4s a head, compared with the opening rate, selling at up to 79s 6d. Ewes with lambs at foot also a new peak of 51s. all counted. There was a yarding of 5488 head. Good 2-tooth wethers brought from 55s lOd to 59s 3d, medium from 54s lOd to 56s Id, and small from 43s 7d to 49s 2d. Shorn 4-tooth wethers made from 55s 6d to 57s Id. Woolly wither hoggets ranged from 85s 6d to 99s 4d, shorn 2-tcoth ewes from 78s

lid tn 79s 6d and woolly ewes with lambs at foot from 48s 6d to 51s, all 1 counted. Shorn ewes with lambs at ■ foot rea’ised from 31s 6d to 33s 3d, all • counted. Something like schedule prices were obtained for shorn sheep in the fat sheep section, the market slackening on last week s rates by about 5s a 1 head. Recent rates for sheep in the I wool were maintained. The yarding ! of about 800 head was made up mainily of sheep off the shears, younger [ewes and hoggets being predominant among the woolled sorts. The best price so far of 55s a head was obtained for a pen of 10 spring lambs. Prime wethers in the wool brc ight £6 Os 4d, medium weight making from £5 Is 7d to £5 3s 4d. Shorn wethers made from I 57s 4d to 62s 4d. Prime woolly ewes ; realised frcm 95s 10d to £5 6s lOd, me- ' dium weight from 80s lOd to 90s lOd, unfinished from 50s lOd to 71s Id, 1 shorn bringing 36s 7d to 36s lOd. Ex- | tra prime young ewes off the shears I changed hands at from 58s 4d to 60s. I Heavy woolly hoggets made from 99s ! 4d to £5 9s 10d, medium weight from i 86s lOd to 91s 4d and light from 57s 4d | to 76s lOd. I Ox beef was again dearer, the mari ket firming bv fully £2 a head. Butch- ■ i ers were offered a yarding of 125 head ■ ■ made up mainly of bullocks with a 1 number of pens of dairy cattle. This [yarding proved insufficient fo? butch-

' ers’ requirements. A consignment of 120 prime bullocks brought the best I prices of the sale, ranging from £37 113 s 6d. This line averaged out at £3B 110 s a head, believed to be the best ■ average ever made <n the yards for 1 such a large draft. 1 ight prime steers ■ made from £27 8s 6d to £3l 80s 6d, and ; a line of light prime bullocks realised i from £34 8s 6d to £36 8s 6d. Prime ox ' changed bands at from £37 13s 6d to 1 £39 13s fid. light to medium at £27 8s 6d and £34 8s 6d. and unfinished from £23 3s 6d t" £23 Ils. Prime cows made from £lB 16s to £2O 18s 6d. medium wei-ht from £l6 Rs 61 to £lB 3s 6d and light from £l3 18s 6d to £l4 8s 6d. Vealers ranged from £ll 4s to £l3 Fetter conditioned cows brought I from £lO Ss 6d to £l4 8s fid. lighter fro— £5 13s 6d to £9 18s 6d. and Jer- ! -p.- b*'lin'’l<s made from £2l 8s 6d to £2B 13s 64.