IMPROVED TONE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20095, 15 November 1939, Page 8

IMPROVED TONE

P.B. CATTLE FAIR SECOND DAY’S AUCTION GOOD COMPETITION There was an excellent sale of female cattle at the second day of tlie Matawhero Cattle Fair to-dnv, with good competition and very satisfactory prices. The tone of the market was much improved on that of yesterday and good competition was received from Hawke's Bay buyers. The cattle came forward in much better condition than yesterday’s yarding.

The individual pen prices were:— Yearling Heifers.—Eight, Polled Angus, small, medium condition (p), £2 Is: 7G, Hereford, good condition, £3; 55, Hereford-Polled Angus cross, in good order, £3; 24, Hereford, a good pen, fresh condition (p), £3 (3s; 15, good, Polled Angus, £3 (is; 15, good, Hereford and Polled Angus, £3 4s: 61, good condition, Polled Angus (p), £3 4s: 27, Hereford, in good order, £2 las: 22, purebred Polled Angus, with condition (p), £3.

! Two-year Heifers. —Twenty-three, i Polled Angus, poor condition (p>, £3 ss; 29, Hereford, fairly good conI dition, £3 9s; 45. Hereford-Polled i Angus cross, a good sturdy pen, £5; ; 49, Polled Angus, good store condii tion, some Hereford cross, £4 15s; 35, ! Polled Angus, good condition, a I straight line, £4 19s; 24, Foiled Angus, good store condition, £5; 21, Hereford, a medium lot, £3 7s; 29, Polled Angus, undersized, medium condition, £3 2s; 14, fairly good pen, Polled Angus, in good order, £4 12s; 18, Polled Angus, rough condition, £4. Empty Cows.—Thirty-two. Polled Angus, good frame, good condition. £5 3s; 34, Hereford-Polled, Angus cross, fresh condition (d), £5 2s; 2/, Polled Angus, fresh condition (o), £5; ; 21, Polled Angus, store condition, T. 4: : 29, Polled Angus, a great pen, fr.ime ; and condition, £5 4s: 33, dehorned, | Hereford, in good order. £4 18s; 17 | Polled Angus, little condition, £3 11s; 15, Polled Angus, speyed, in good ! order, £5 6s; 4, fat and forward, £5 ; 10s; 15. Polled Angus, speyed, fat, and I forward, £6 12s; 15, medium condition. ! £3 18s.

| Grown Heifers.—Forty-seven, Ilere- ! ford ana Polled Angus, good condi- ! ton (p), £5 ss; 56, Hereford, dehorned, good condition <p) A 5 4s; I 20, Hereford, on aceo mt of Sfrathallan station, polled, fresh condition £5 j 13s; 15, Shorthorn-Hereford cross, jin good order, £5 9s; 40, Polled | Angus, a straight line, in good order. I£s 14s; 27, Polled Hereford, good condition, £5: 34, Hereford and Polled Angus, on account of Mr. W. Turnbull, full of condition, £5 18s.

Cows and Calves. —Eleven of each, in good order, Polled Angus cows, £6 3s; 9, good condition, station cows, 9, ! good-sized calves, £G ss; 4 of each, | all good, £6 ss. Beef i Prices for fat cattle were:— I Cows. —Three, Shorthorn, £lO ss; 11, Hereford, £5 15s; 8, Polled Angus, j£B l?s; 9, Hereford, on account of ! Mr. W. Turnbull, £lO 10s; 6, Jersey, £4 2s; 1, Hereford-Polled Angus cross. £6 13s; 9, Hereford, on account of Mr. W. Turnbull, £9 17s: 5. Jersey. £4; 3, Jersey, £4 3s; 7, Hereford, cows and heifers, £9 Is. Heifers. —One, Shorthorn, £6 17s Gd. Bullocks.—Two, Hereford, medium weight, £9 2s Gd.