STORE CATTLE MARKET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 81, 22 April 1937, Page 13

STORE CATTLE MARKET

Slow Market for Good Quality STORTFORD VALUES Bespite the good quality penned. store cattle met with slow market at Stortford Lodge yesterday, and were hard to trade. The few h?:es of station-bred cattle were well grown and in good order, but shortage of feed preeluded certain farmers from being in the market, Good 30-months steers, in very forward order, were passed in at £8 2/6. Similar aged heifers in ealf brought £7. Steers a year younger made to £7 5/-. Full-grown bullocks were not on offer. The following vlues were offered for seleeted entries: — On account of Mr. T. Ramsden, Fernhill, 39 clean-bved, dehorned, 30-months Hereford steers, well-grown, and in forward condition, having been well done, making a good prospectiva chilling line, were passed at £8 2/6. On aecount of the same vendpr, an entry of 5Q quite well-grown, eleanbred, 30-months Aberdeen Angus Steers, in forward condition, SQqnd, good-doing young cattle, were also passed at £8 2/6. On aecount of King Bros., Te Pohue, nine medium-grown young AbeTdeen Angus bullocks, in gpod store condition, made £8 11/-. On account of Mr. H. Campbell, jnr., 22 nieely-grown, 30-months Aberdeen Angus Hereford erogs heifers, in splendid order, and in calf to a well-bred Aberdeen Angus hull, sold at £7. These' young heifers would make the founda^ tion of a herd of good breeding cows. On account of Mr. Frank iuidreth, Mangawhare, 15 well-bred, 18-months Aberdeen Angus lieifers, in sound eom dition, and thoroughly healthy, having been well done on the high country. brought £5 10/-. On account of Mr. Frank Hildreth, Mangawhare, 14 elean-bred, IS-months Aberdeen Angus steers, in very good i ( condition and healthy, brought £6 17/6, i