BRISK BEEF DEMAND

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 2 November 1939, Page 11

BRISK BEEF DEMAND

FAT SHEEP SELL WELL STORE PRICES EASIER STORTFORD LODGE (Per Press Association.) HASTINGS, this day. There was a brisk market: for fat cattle at the Stortford Lodge stock sale yesterday, when a small yarding, comprising mainly second quality lines, met with keen competition. The store cattle market slackened at first, but improved later. There was a good demand for older lines. Forward empty cows also sold well.

Passings were frequent and values cased considerably in the store sheep section, owing chiefly lo farmers' uncertain'y of prices lor by-products. Fat sheep, which were in short supply, met with a brisk market. Realisations were:— Fat Cattle.—Medium to heavy bullocks £l4 12s to Mfi 15s, small grown sorts £lO to £ll 7s (id: medium heifers, £lO 10s to £l3; prime cows, £lO to £l2 7s (id; second quality. £!i to £8; good vealers, £3 12s to £4 15s. Store Cattle.- Forward bullocks, £9 Ms to £10: young bullocks in good order, £9 4s: three-year steers to £8 7s fid. two-year steers £fi 12s lo £7, smallgrown light pens £5 to £6; yearling steers £4 lo £4 10s. tops to £5 Ms; forward empty cows, £5 18s to £6 (is. Store Sheep.—Shorn two-tooth wethers lo Ills lid; woolly hoggets, His lid lo 17s (id; woolly wether hoggets, 23s 9d lo 24s Id: lour-loolh shorn wethers lo 20s: shorn two-looth ewes to 22s (id. Fat Sheep.—Heavy prime unshorn wethers to 30s 1cl; medium shorn. 22s 9d lo 235; shorn ewes, 23s to 23s 3d; unshorn. 24s to 27s 3d; shorn fourtooth prime wethers, to 255.