Brisk Selling

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 10, 27 January 1937, Page 6

Brisk Selling

FAT-CATTLE MARKET Short Entry £1 a Head BeHer Than Last Week STORTFORD VALUES Another very short yarding of fat cattle at Stortford Lodge today met with a brisk market to sell at £l and more a h'ead better than last week's sharply advanced price levels. The yarding of 126 head consisted of 60 station-bred sorts, the remainder being Jersey and Jersey cross. . The entry, which consisted almost entirely of female sorts, iucluded only a small percentage of ■ good-quality lots, for which competition was particularly keen among the local "butchers. The top lines of cows made to £11, with good mediilm sorts making to £8 15/-. Plain finished lots also sold particularly well, making to £7 10/which was fully £2 and" better above values ruling a ,few weeks ago. A large percentage of the cows had age against them, the short yarding assisting greatly in their being sold. A few medium-grown young prime-qual-ity heifers were in keen demand, making good saies. The only ox-beef entries in the sale, a heavy dehorned Hereford ^bulloek, particulariy well finished, brought £14 The Jersey section of'" the offering consisted chiefly of plain-finished lots lacking quality. The store cattle section' was made up of a few small entries of miseellaneous sorts, a nondescript entry. Realisations for fat cattle were as under; — * HEIFER VALUES. , Two clean-bred, medium * to heavy", prime-quality Abereen-Angus heifers, choice young summer beef. met with eager competition to sell at £9 10/-. A medium to heavy, extra-prime finished Shorthorn heifer . of particulariy 1 gobd qua?ity, • young beef, made £9 ' 12/6. A medium-f ramed, young AberdeenAngus, prime-finished, made £8 16/-. Three heavier Aberdeen-Angus-Hero-ford cross prime-finished heifers, extra fine quality young beef brought £9 8/-. 10W RATES. A single heavy, clean-bred Aberdecn Angus cow, extra prime • finished, a quality entry, realised £10 18/-. In the same pen two lighter, simi-larly-bred, well-finished cows brought. £8 17/-. A bid of £11 secured an extra-prime quality, young, heavy Shorthorn-cross cow in splendid order. A " heavy dehorned, prime-quality Hereford eow, well done, made £10 15/-.-A slightly smaller-framed Shorthorn cow showing prime quality, well finished, brought £10 5/-. A plain-finished, dehorned Heroford cpw of medium quality made £7 12/6. Two medium to heavy, clean-bred Aberdeen- Angus cows showing prime quality, well finished entries, brought £9. In the same pen a heavier crossbred, also well finished, brougbft £9 17/-. Four medium to heavy Aberdeen - Angus co W3, of good average quality, brought £8 15/-. Three long-f ramed, heavy AberdeenAngus cows, showing a rather plain fmish, brought £10. Four horned, aged Hereford cows, heavy and carrying quite a lot of condition, sold particulariy well to make £10 1/-. * Four smaller-fyamed, horned Hereford cows of average quality and finish brought £8 15/-.