SHORT YARDING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 8

SHORT YARDING

Store Sheep Prices Improve At Waipukurau BREED1NG EWES WANTED Recent beneficial rains giving farmers encouragement to hold on to their stock accounted for the short yarding at Waipukurau to-day, when the market for store sheep showed an lmprovement of from 1/- to 1/6 a: head. The pens included a few good lines, among which a 6ne entry on account of Mr W. Hobson, Takapau, of four-year breeding ewes brought 30/2. SmaJl-grown wethers improved well on last week, and late-shorn ewe lambs off hill country met a better market making np to 23/9. Verv few woolly wether lambs were on offer, smallgrown light-conditioned sorts made T3/A feature of the selling was the improvement in 5 and 6-year breeding ewes showing splendid mouths, which made 27/-. Bidding for all lines was more active than has been the case for some weeks, and the sale showed a hrighter tone. Buyers from outside districts were also in the market. Except for a few pens of maiden S.D. ewes the fat sheep section lacked quality. The cattle section constituted a poorquality offering except for a few lines of station-bred steers. Values were in vendors' favour and, on the basis of quality, made satisfactory saies. The fat pens consisted of a few aged dairy cows, there being an absence of butchers' quality. ' •' Realisations were as follow:

CATTLE Three medium-grown weaners, just off their mothers, and iu good order, sold at £2 17/-. An entry of mixed-bred aged cows, finished for dairying purposes, in very plain order, made to £4. A further poor-quality entry brought £3. On account of Abbotsford, Ltd., an entry of 24 mixed-aged' Aberdeen Angus-Jiereford cross steers, in medium condition and showing a good coat, a useful line of young cattle, made a good sale at £7 4/-. In from Pukehou, a line of medium grown mixed-bred weaner heifers sold at £2 19/-. A line of mixed-bred 3-year heifers, uneven in size (r.w. Shorthom) but showing up well, sold at £4 1/-. Four springing Jersey heifers, due to calf at end of July, in poor order, were sold at £3 6/-. The' line was guaranteed sound and right.

FAT oHEEJr. An entry of 14 medium-grown prime well-woolled wethers passed for 28/1. A line of 38 aged ewes, in very poor order, were passed at 11/-. Fourteen extra-prime medium-grown maiden Southdown ewes in good order were passed at 24/9. A line of maiden 4-th S.D. ewes in extra-prime order, a choice quality entry, brought 26/-. An entry of 33 light-finished earlyshorn wethers were passed at 27/-. Ten well-woolled heavy prime liomney lambs sold at 28/-. STORE SHEEP. On account of Mr W. Hobson, Takapau, 464 4-year-old ewes running with S.D. rain since February 20 brought 30/2. These ewes were a straight line, being well woolled and in good order, haviug been well farmed. On account of Mr J. Schaffer, Porangahau, 134 5 and 6-year ewes, particularly well mouthed, carrying a good length of wool and running with S.D. rams smce March 1, met the market at 26/1. A line of -222 well-grown early-shoru 2 ani 4.\Ji wethers, in medium condition, made a good sale at 23/6. On account of Mr J. Schaffer, Porangahau, L0Q small-grown light-condition-ed Wv.tIIv Eomney wether lambs, cn quite fresh order, brougnt 13/3. Jn from Ashley Clinton and on account of Mr E. R. Miles, 80 4 and 5-year ewes running with Eomney rams since March 12. brought 27/1. These ewes were well framed and in good order and carried' a very good slipe. On account of Mr J. L. Jamieson, 89 6-th and 4-year-old ewes, small in frame and running with Eomney rani since March 3, sold at 23/-. In from Wallingford, a line of smallframed late-shorn 4-th ewes, running with Eomney rams, brought 23/-. An entry of 51 very early-shorn medium-grown wethere, in forward 9rder, sold at 24/9. Down from Argyll, a line of lateshorn fairly-grown Eomney ewe lambs, in good order, made 23/9.