IMPROVED PRICES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20030, 31 August 1939, Page 10

IMPROVED PRICES

FAT SHEEP AND CATTLE STORTFORD LODGE (Par Fross Association.) HASTINGS, this day. On both fat cattle and sheep sales at Stortford Lodge stock sale yesterday prices showed a marked rise without there being any improvement in the quality of the offerings. Buyers appeared to be prepared to pay highly for all good lines, a rise of 3s to Gs, and and in some cases more, being evident in the fat sheep sale. Store cattle would probably also have brought increased prices, but the general quality of the yarding was so poor as to preclude all possibility of this, the rates instead remaining firm on last week’s.

Once again ewe hoggets made the best selling in the store sheep section, where prices also remained fully firm. Realisations were:—

Fat Cattle.—Best prime Polled Angus cows £l2 to £l2 17s Gd, medium £9 to £ll 10s, low condition £4 10s to £7 10s; heifers, tops to £l2 10s, average quality £7 to £10; bullocks, big-framed but hardly finished £lO to £l3; medium framed, well finished, £l3

Store Cattle. —Three-year steers, failorder, £7 16s; four-year bullocks, bigl'ramed. good condition, £9 2s 6d;,yearling steers, good order, passed at £4 2s; small, poor quality steers, £5 7s 6d; yearling steers, lighter order. £3 8s; small, light two-year steers, £4 11s; unfinished, big-framed cows, £4 9s. Fat Sheep.—Poor quality hoggets, 10s to 15s; tops, 24s Cel to 26s 6d; wethers, 25s 7d to 325; tops, 355; average quality, 19s to 22s 9d; ewes, tops 32s 6d. average prices 27s to 31s 6d: lower quality, 20s to 25s Cd. Store Sheep.—Fat and forward wethers 15s sd, good store order to 14s 4d; failing-mouthed ewes with docked lambs, 8s 3d all counted; hoggets, tops 25s Gd, medium 20s, lighter, order 17s 3d to 19s 4d..