SHORT YARDING OF FAT CATTLE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 62, 31 March 1937, Page 6

SHORT YARDING OF FAT CATTLE

Quality Lacking, But Prices Hold TO-DAY AT STORTFORD A further short yarding of fat cattle ■was entered at Stortford Lodge to-day, when 150 head, ineluding a number of Jersey sorts, wexe penned. Good quality was well in the minority and would not iepresent more than one-quarter of the offiering. A few pens of ox beef came forward, hut most of these bullocks were aged' and rather plain-finished. A small entry of extra-prime young bullocks made to 35/- per 1001b. Ordinary prime bullocks realised to 32/- per 1001b. The top price was £13, for a heavy Hereford hullock. The outstanding entry in the female section waa an exceptional line of small to me^ium-frame'd well-hred Hereford heifers on account of Mr Ghy Martin, of Crownthorpe. These were first- eiass butchers' quality and were ea,geriy sought after to sell to £8 8/6. Most- of the cows yarded were aged and lacked quality, the best making to £8 5/-. The market remained fully firm on late saies, the short yarding assisting the sale of poorer-quality lots. The Jersey pens were a mixed loty the best selling pens being young heifers making to £4 10/-. • The small yarding of store cattle consisted of miscellaneous mlxed-bred lots of a nondescript nature, there beittg an absenCe of station-bred lines. Realisations were made as under: — ^

OX-BEEF RATES. A single unfinished horned Hereford bullock, well helow butchers ' condition, sold'at £9. Two heavy dehorned Shorthorn bullocks, prime-finisked, a good quality entry, sold readily at £12 15/-. . _ , A single clean-hred Aberdeen-Angua bullock, solidly finished and. of prime quality, sold at £12 17/-. In the. same pen . a lighter similarly-bred ^rime bullock made £12. " Two medium to heavy dehorned clean-br ed. solidly -finished" p'rime-quality young bullocks brought £12 1/-. . In the same- pen three more pimilarly.bred smaller-fraxiied -extra-prime young bulloeks made £10 17/6. Three clean-bred heavy horned Hereford bulloeks, prime-finished and in good order, *made to £12 10/-.. Two' medium Aberdeen Angus-cross bulloeks, quite well finished but' plaih, were passed at £11 7/6. ; A single heavy dehorned Hereford bullock, big framed and well finished,. made £13/ In the same pen two mu.ch smaller-framed similarly-bred bullocks showing quality sold a.t £11 15/-.

HEEFEE PRICEB, Three medium to heaVy Aberdeen Angus heifers, showing quality and prime-finished, made to £8 10/-. On account of Mr Guy Marti%, Crownthorpe, four small - to medium-framed horned well-hred Hereford heifers, of exceptional quality and irf splendid order, sold to £8 5/-. Erom the same source, a further pen of similarly-Bred heifers, in excellent order, sold to £8 8/6. A further peu of five heifers out of this draft, equal in quality to the previous pens but smaller grown, made to £61^6. COW-BEEP .VALUES. A single heavy Shorthorn cow, aged* and plain-finished, laeking quality, sold at £5 10/-. A single ' young primefinished Hereford cow of exceptional quality sold at £9 4/-. Two medium to heavy Hereford eows, rather plainly finished, sold to £8 10/-. Three rather lighter Hereford-cross cows, medium-finished,, made to £8. . On. account of Mr Gtiy Martin, Crownthorpe, four small to medium dehorned Shorthorn and crossbred cows, well finished. sold to £7 8/6.

-QUOTATIONS -FOR EUNNERS. On account of "Greenhill" Station, a pen of nieely-grown Aberdeen Angus rujmers just off their mothers, in very good condition, sold to £6 10/-.