RISE OF UP TO 2/-

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 105, 20 May 1937, Page 14

RISE OF UP TO 2/-

Fat Sheep at Stortford Lodge YESTERDAY'S VALUES A short yarding and the circumstance that the butchers required supplies saw the market rise 1/6 to 2/- a head for fat sheep at Stortford Lodge yesterday. Prime ewes showed an even better advance, making to 28/-, while maiden Down-cross made the spiendid value of 29/6. Wethers were in short supply and made, for heavy sorts, 30/and 27/- for lighter-finished sorts. Lambs offered were chiefly medium grown, the best making 26/6 and ligiiter finished down to 23/-. All lines met with a keen . inquiry, and the good . percentage of qualitv lines sold readUy. The market can be gauged from the following values for selented entries: — Ten well-framed early-shorn heavy prime wethers sold at 29/9. A line of extra-prime maiden four and six-tooth Down-cross ewes sold at 29/6. " Two further pens of similarly-bred ewes, also in ' extra-prime order, brought to 28/6. An eptry of 30 small-grown lightfinished blackrfaced lambs sold at 20/3. A bid of 23/3 secured a line of 20 lnediuih to heavy prime ewes with a i'air slipe. Ten prime early-shorn Rompey twotooth wethers, medium . grown, brought 26/1. A line of 19 medium black-faced twotooth wethers made 25/4. On account of Mr A. Parkinson, 'Tikokino, 15 well-framed early-shorn heavy extra-prime ewes realised 28/-. On account of Redclyffe Station, 32 well-woolled heavy prime ewes sold at 25/6. On account of the estate of J. Eingi, Meeanee, 32 heavy prime ewes, mixed in the wool, sold at 25/4.