Prices Maintained

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 6

Prices Maintained

A NM» m GATTLE VALUES Price for Line ofBnUocfes COWS UP TO £10 - Xeai week'i advanced values for • itfc abort yarding of fat cattle were fully maintained at Stortford Sodge to-day, when a mucli larger mrdlng of 190 station-bred lines abd 90 Jersey sorts came forward. » yarding included the best qual•y aeen in the yards for some time, wpre being a larger offering of ok smt than bis been lubmitted for • wBk y vMkfc

JW*IT"' wm have seea ox beef oonffm. to ringle enfcrias, £14 being Teaeh4P> To-day's top price was £14 2/- for a exeeptional pen of heavy, extraktQMI de-horned Herefcrd bullocks ofon aceotmt of Pukekura Station. Wveral pens of medium-grown well-fin-ittied yoong bullocks ranged from £11 to £1 2. ap ie outstanding entry of femala cattle was on account of Beamish Bros., mfL Mr F. N. H. Beamish. These Waiana Yvhana-bred Hereford cows and Mffers cnot with eager competition to »K1 at very satisf actory rates. 3Ee top price for cows was £10, but nceral pens making to £9 appeared to fe dear enongh. Values were ekpected to be easier with the. muck larger yardigg of good-quality lots for the butchers tp celeet from, but short supplies on nnd enabled all lots to engage the atttotfon of the butchers, with the result tftit evndors met with a selling that was gireftilj in their favour. Despite, this, kowever, j, immber of pens were passedi , Bediaations were as undorj— . btolock prices, '"JPpc medimn to heavy prime quality I^JpWdeea Angns bullocks, ideal sumJg^weight ox beef, brought to £11 Jtoftc similarly-bred medinm weight yochi of good quality made to £11 Aa. entry of two dehorned Hereford, hja jLbe rdeen Angus and one Hereford qpoas zaedinm-grown bullocks, weU flnished, a useful qnality entry, sold at 15# Xm medium-grown, prime-quality, frocag Aberdeen Angns Uross bullocks, of nseful weights, made to 11 5/% The following pen of slightly similarr fcred bullocks, equally weU flnished, good quality, young beef, made £11. Kve clean-bred, medium-framed, prime-finished Abergeen Angus buliSftk* A good summer-quality entry, .were passed at £11. Three well-framed, horned Herefords, light prime flnished, were passed at £11 15/% On behalf of Pukekura Station, a pen of outstanding prime-quality, heavy, dehorned Hereford bullocks command•d keen attention from the local butchers, starting at £12 to sell at prices ranging from £13 10/- to £14 2/-, the whole pen being purehased by Mr. K. Porter. Three heavy prime-quality, horned Hereford bullocks, well flnished but lighter than the previoas dehorned entry, xealised £12 15/% The following entry of slmilarlybred, horned bullocks, being equally well-finished ox beef, sold at £12 15/% In from the Tukituki, five medium to heavy prime-quality Aberdeen Angus bullocks, well flnished, were passed at £11 10/% From the same source, a further •ntiy of eimilarly bfed bullocks, rather lighter than the previous pen, was passed at £11. COW VALUES, An extra prime-quality clean-bred Aberdeen Angus cow, well flnished, realised £10. ; A pen of heavy prime-quality de horned Shorthorn cows in good order reelised £9. Five medium to heavy Aberdeen Angus cows showing good finish made to £8 10/% Au entry of six dehorned aged Herefprd and Shorthorn cows, plain flnished acd lacking quality, made to £7. On account of Mr Eric McLeod, Raupare, six heavy solidly-finished dehorned Bed Shorthorn cows maae to £8 16/-. On behalf of Beamish Bros., "Whana Whana, four well-bred horned, medium to heavy young prime-quality Hereford cows, exceptionally well done, made £9 lS/% The lighter sorts made £8 15/-. On account of the same vendors, four medium-framed similarly-bred primei quality flnished cows made to £8 10/-, On account of Mr F. N. H. Beamish, Whana Whana, four medium-framed dehorned prime-quality Hereford cows, in excellent order, made to £9 2/-, On account of tho same vendor, five slightly lighter similarly-bred particularly well-finished cows made to £8 10>% HEEFEB BATES. On account of Beamish Bros., Whana Whana, three medium-grown young horned Hereftvrd heifers made to £9 7/6. These young he*fers were exceptionally well finished, b'eirg choice quality young beef, which was eagerly competed for.