STORE SHEEP SALE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 58, 24 March 1937, Page 6

STORE SHEEP SALE

Useful Lines Eagerly Sought Aiter CULL SORTS NOT WANTED A bright sale for store sheep took place at Stortford Lodge to-day, wnen all useful lines met with ready competition. Well-grown early shorn twotooth wethers from Wairoa topped the market at 25/5. A later shorn line brought 25/-. An exceptionally well done line of very forward black-face lambs containing a good pereentago of killable sorts, brought the exporters into the bidding to make the splendid value of 22/:. Forward woolly white-face Wether lambs, in good store order, brought 19/5. Cull sorts in very poor order were haTd to quit to 8/-. Aged fattening ewes were also slow to trade to 11/-. Realisations were made as under: — On account of Tangiwai Station, Wairoa, an entry of 445 well-grown early shorn 2-th wethers, in very forward condition, attraeted keen competition tp top the market at 25/5. A line of foqr and five-year ewes, well mouthed (r.w. Southdown since March 5), were passed at 17/-. These ewes were in light condition. An entry of 160 mixed sex Down cross two-tooths in forward order were passed at 20/9, being afterwards traded at a satisfactory figure. A line of 130 aged ewes, very poorly mouthed and in light condition, a fattening line, brought 11/-. On account of Mr F. G. Holt, brought down from Waikoau by train, 134 fat and forward black-face lambs, a splendid order, attraeted competition from exporters to sell at 22/-. These lambs were in exceptional order and included a number of killable sorts. An entry of 196 shorn white-face wether lambs, in poor order, a cull line, brought 8/-. , A further line on account of Tangiwai Station, of 215 2-th wethers, in lighter condition than the tops out of the draft, well woolled and in good store order, sold at 22/6. On account of Mr F. G. Holt, Waikoau, 146 late shorn wethers, in very forward condition, brought 25/-.