BEEF VALUES FIRM

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20012, 10 August 1939, Page 11

BEEF VALUES FIRM

PAT SHEEP RATES UP STOUTTORI) LODGE (Per Tress Association.) HASTINGS, this day. With a yarding including fewer pens of really good quality cattle at Stortford Lodge" stock sale yesterday. the demand for prime beef continued firm. Prices remained unaltered on last week's rates. Store cattle met with a firm demand for the best sorts as severeal good line- were offered, bullocks making the best selling. Store sheep also met with a firm market, a demand being evident for genuine in-lamb ewes and ewe hoggets, which made the best selling. The improved quality offered in the fat sheep pens was responsible for a noticeable rise in prices. Here, as in other sections, buyers were willing to pay for quality. Realisations were:—-

Fat Cattle.—Medium-framed and finished Polled Angus heifers, top £9 ss; lighter order. £7 to £8; Hereford Cross cows, tops £9; good quality £8 to £8 12s Gd; Polled Angus cows, finished, to £9 2s (id: average. £7 to £8 ss: low condition, £4 to £5 10s: Polled Angus bullocks, prime heavy order, £lO lis to £l2. No vealers were on offer. Store Cattle. Light-conditioned Polled Angus Cross cows. £3 ss; 2iyear heifers r.w. bull, £3 12s 6d; yearling Polled Angus steers, £2 15s; Polled Angus bullocks, well-grown, nice condition. £7 2s Gd to £9. Store Sheep.—Ewes with lambs at foot, 17s; well-grown, woolled eve hoggets. 18s lOd to 20s 9d; wether hoggets to 16s; tops. 17s lOd: mixed age ewes in lamb, lis; four-year ewes in lamb, 18s Gd. Fat Sheep. Average quality wethers. 16s; good. 20s 2d in 21s Gd: tops, 255: heavy lambs, tops 22s 4d; good quality, 18s 9d to 21s: good ewes, 16s to 18s sd.