FAT CATTLE DEMAND
IMPROVED PRICES STORTFORD LODGE (Per Press Association i HASTINGS, this day. There was a keen demand for all classes of fat cattle at Stcrtford Lodge stock sale yesterday. Prices advanced on last week. The yarding included a number of good quality pens, but there were few outstanding. A small offering of 100 head of store cattle met with 'a' good inquiry to sell at improved prices. The only entry of store sheep quotable was a pen of 83 two-tooth wethers in forward order, which sold at 17s lid.
The entry of fat sheep was also .small and prices were firm to improved. Realisations were; — Fat Cattle. —Light to medium ■bullocks. £3l to £l3 17s Gd; heifers, £lO 17s Gd to £ll 12s, medium £8 to .£9 ss, light £7 to £7 10s; light cows £6 2s Gd to £8 15s, heavier sorts £9 ss. Store Cattle. —Fattening cows, £5; cows with calves, £5 14s; 15-month Polled Angus heifers, £2 7s Gd; forward young bullocks, £9 15s. Fat Sheep.—Early shorn ewes, 18s lOd; mixed Southdown cross twolooths, 17s 4d to 19s 4d; wethers, 18s 4d to 21s 9d; unshorn to '27s 9d; lambs, 21s lo 23s Cd; tops, 27s Id.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 11
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202FAT CATTLE DEMAND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20120, 14 December 1939, Page 11
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