Stortford Lodge

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 14

Stortford Lodge

Dominion Special Service. HASTINGS, March 15. No change was apparent in the fat sheep prices at the Stortford Lodge stock sale today, where a small yarding of 600 showed only a moderate percentage of quality which was sufficient Io attract butchers. Heavy price lambs ranged from 22/- to 25/-, medium pens 18/- to 20/6; very small framed wethers 14/10 to 15/3; medium Down cross two-tooths 14/-; similary bred ewes 12/- to .13/6: heavy prime ewes from Taniumu averaging 70 lb. 11/3; good average ewes 10/- to 11/-; second quality ewes, slow to trade, 7/6 to 8/6. Lamb values brightened in the lots showing forward condition and competition for these was keen, though inferior pens made slow trading. In the yarding of 6000 woolly Romney cross sheep, wether lambs predominated, I I/being paid for an entry on account ol Mrs. O. Potter. _Tbe best, entries of ewe lambs marie to 156. Breeding ewes were difficult to trade, most prices being well below ewe fair rates. Romney cross lambs, well grown and in good forward condition. made 14/1; medium grown, woolly, bright and hardy, 13/7; medium grown and in fair condition 12/6 to 12/4 ; in healthy order aud in useful condition 11/3 to 10/9; small grown, woolly, quite good condition, 8/10; Down cross lambs, small to medium. 11/4; Romney cross ewe lambs, healthy and in good, condition. 15/3; two-tooths, early shorn, medium framed and in fair order, 20/6; four and five-year ewes, well framed, fair mouthed,' S/-; other ewes lines in fair order passed at from 9/3 to 13/6. The fat cattle market was again steady, with poorer sorts difficult to trade. The yarding of 160 head included a fair percentage of quality, two of the liens being very light ox beef. The heifer pens included some extra good quality sorts, which averaged 25/- to 26/- a 1001 b.. selling from £7/15/- to £B/13/-; medium heifers, in good order for summer trade, ranging from £6 to £6/15/-. The eow pens were mixed, but among the better quality entries butchers were afforded a good selection. Best pens sold at from £7 to £7/12/6, averaging 21/- to 23/- a 100 lb Medium quality pens showing age averaged 20/- a 1001 b. Cows, plain in quality and in store condition, were not wanted. Young prime Jersey sorts so.d to £6. Two pens of very small grown Aberdeen Angus and Hereford vealers brought 37/6.