LOWER VALUES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 87, 29 April 1937, Page 15

LOWER VALUES

Store Cattle at Stortford Lodge SHORTAGE OF FEED Due to the continued dry weather values for store cattle were definitely lower yesterday ' at Stortford Lodge. With feed supplies rapidly dwindliug,, vendors were obliged to meet the market. Several well-bred station lines were penned, but these were difficult to trade. The top price for well-grown forward bullocks was £8 17/6. Among the younger entries 30-month eteers, well-grown and showing good breeding, brought £8 6/-, lines a year younger making £7 5/-. Well- developed 30month Aberdeen Angus heifers, ,in calf since November, brought £6. Competdtion throughout was very lixnited and the seiling was lifeless. For selected entries values wtie offered as under: ' On account of Morea Station, ,44 nicely-grown 20-month Aberdeen Ang'os heifers, the foundation of good breeding cows, realised £5 4/-. An entry of 30 quite well-grown 30-

month Aberdeen Angus heifers, in calf co an Aberdeen Angus bull, brought £6 1/*. A bid of £85/* was offered for 34 very forward well-growa, 30-month Aberdeen Angus steers. Down off the Mangahuruhuru Range, a line of 30-month Aberdeen Angus heifers,, running with an A.A. bull since November, sold at £6. On account of Mr. J, W. Guerin,, 36 'well-grown Aberdeen Angus steers,, 30-month-old and in good doing order, realised £8 i/-. On account of Mr. A. F. M. Symes, 34 well-bred 20-month Aberdeen Angus steers brought £7 5/-. Down from Rissington, 17 Aberdeen Angus bullocks in forward order were passed at £8 17/6. A, line of 16 small-grown 18*month Aberdeen Angus Hereford cross heifers w^re passed at £4 5/*.