STORTFORD LODGE PRICES

Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1948, Page 8

STORTFORD LODGE PRICES

HASTINGS, Oet. ..6 Renewed interest was taken in the store cattle market at Stortford Lodge

today as the result of refreshrng raio." The sale of 1.200 head, ineluding Some good quality coiisignments, attracted the largest gathering of fanners this seaspn, • From tlie oiitset bidding was confident and wejl. sprpad, the • market being a souhd one. Some attraetive quick fattening propositions were plaGed bef Ore buyers. The opening peh sold at £20 10s, the best price obtainpd gt Stortford Lodge this season. Other forwai-d bulloeks sold qt £18 5s to £10 15s, lighter making £15 5s. Quality tliree-year steers w.ere traded at £16 5s, two-year steers at £12 6s, yearling steers at up to £9, empty cows at £7, cows/and caives at £9 and three-year heif ers at £12, The yarding of 240 head of beef extended buyers' purchasing capaeity and though the quality in general waS not up to the standard of last week's sale, values, dropped appreciably. Top quality heavy ox made £31 13s 6d, A copsignment of eight averaged £29. Nothing outstanding eame forward in tlie. olfering of female beef. The best price fior heifers was £21 3s 6d. Cows realised £18 13s 6d, Prime heavy qx elianged hands at £26 Ss 6d to £31 13s 6d, bulloeks in prime medium weight order bringing £22 3s 6d to £24 18s 6d and light £17 11s to £21 8s 6d'. Extra .prime heifers realised £19 18s 6d ta £21 3s 6d, prime £16 18s 6d to £18 8s bd. Medium made £13 18s 6d t.Q £15 13s 6d and light and unfinished £10 8s 6d to £11 18s 6d. Quotations for prime cows ranged from £16 3s 6d to £18 13s 6d, medium realised £13 8s 6d to £15. 13s 6d and light £10 13s 6d to £12 13s 6d. Runners were traded at £10 5s. Despite the reeent beneficial rains, the store sheep market failed to show any upward movement. On the *contrary, the tendeney for ewes and lambs to • ease was not ehecked. For all that the market as ,a whole was a buoyant one with hoggets maintainixlg late rates. Good eonditioned hoggets were traded at 43s 3d to 45s 4d, the latter price being paid for a line pf good sheep. Small to medium wether hoggets realised 31s 3d to 41s. There was nothing very attraetive about the few pens of ewe hoggets included in tlie yarding of 3000 liead, values ranging from 35s to 43s 6d. Top price offered for ewes and lambs was 34s 6d for a draft which included the best lambs seen in the yards this season but this was declined as there was a 35s reserve. Other ewes and lambs sold at 24s 9d to 30s 8d. Forward eonditioned woolly wethers were traded at 50s to 54s and small mixed sexed shorn twotooths sold well at 32s lOd. The fat sheep market was strong. A single wether in prime order gave the sale'a buoyant start at 65s lOd. A pen of medium weight aged ewes off the shears, sold at 26s lld and three pens of shorn prime young ewes changed hands at 36s lOd to 42s lOd. Good hoggets sold from 40s lOd to 47s lOd.