CATTLE PRICES HIGHER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20036, 7 September 1939, Page 11

CATTLE PRICES HIGHER

GISBORNE TOPS MARKET STORE SHEEP DEMAND STORTFORD LODGE (Per Tress Association.) HASTINGS, this day. With a yarding of very mixed quality on offer, fat cattle mot with a dear market at Stortford Lodge stock sale yesterday, with general increases of £2. Competition was keen for all lines in good condition, some exceptionally high prices being paid for store cattle. The offering comprised largely bullocks, the best of which sold well, with a few aged breeding cows, which met with a slack demand. The very few pens of ewe hoggets yarded made the best selling again in the store sheep sale. Wether hoggets met with a rise in price, other lines selling unaltered. The large increase in the yarding of fat sheep in part was responsible for a marked decline on the high rates ruling last week. Realisations were:— Range of Prices Cattle.—Prime heavy bullocks, fops, £lB to £2l 15s; prime heavy cows, £l3 to £l4 1 Os; tops, £ls 15s; heavy heifers, £l3 15s to £ls 17s Cd; smaller heifers, £ll to £l2. Store Cattle.—Polled Angus-cross bullocks, good store order, £9 8s; tops, £9 17s: yearling steers, £4 7s; Polled Angus cows in calf to Polled Angus bulls, light store order, £2 12s Gd. ■Store Sheep.—Wether hoggets, tops 15s lOd to lGs 2d, .lighter 11s 9d; wethers, two-tooths 18s 9d, older lines 19s* ewes with lambs, aP counted, 14s lOd; ewe hoggets, 255. Fat Sheep.—Wethers, 25s to 27s lOd; ewes, 18s Cd to 225; tops, 22s 6d; hoggets, 15s to 2.1 s Gd. Gisborne Bullocks Several drafts. of exceptionally heavy cattle were penned from the Gisborne district. The ox-beef pens concluded the best offered for a considerable time The outstanding draft was on account of Drumpeel station, which ranged from £lB to £2l 15s, the top price being for an exceptionally good entry of Shorthorns. Out of this draft of 20 all but one was purchased fo! outside requirements. The heaviest of these bullocks would scale over lOOOlbs, the prices are the best for two years. Drumpeel station entries sold as follows:—Five well-bred extra prime, heavy, solidly finished Aberdeen Angus bullocks, a most attractive entry of heavy ox beef, £l9 to £2l ss; 4 dehorned, heavy, solidly-finished prime Hereford bullocks, equal in quality to the previous pen, £2O to £2l; 0 A.A.-Hereford cross bullocks, equal in quality and finish to the two previous pens but not so heavy, £18; 2 extra heavy prime dehorned Shorthorn bullocks, showing exceptionally good quality, topped the market at £2l 15s; 3 dehorned Ilerefords, in similar order, £2l 2s Gd.