LIFELESS SALE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 109, 25 May 1937, Page 8

LIFELESS SALE

Lack of Inquiry For Fat Cattle At Waipukurau * TO-DAY'S MARKET A lack of inquiry, accounted for * lifeless sale in the fat cattle sec.tion of the Waipukurau sale to-day. The offering consisted of ligh1;-finished entries, many being in store condition only. This quality was hot wanted, and in consequence practicaliy the , whole section was passed. Vendors were not prepared to meet the market at the values offered, with the exception of one pen of cows. The yarding di& not include a prime entry sRowing butchers quality. The bullocks were in store order but would finish readily on.good grazing. The store-cattle section included some useful lines of station-bred steers and heifers. Trading of these was generally difficult, despite the quality submitted. Weaners improved on last week's rates, but failed to make last Wednesdays' values at Stortford Lodge. « Rising three-year clean-bred ateera brought to £7 15/- and similar aged heifers, described as. empty, realised £5. A moderate yarding of fat sheep ' showing a wide range in quality was offered. Best prime wethers made 29/$ while light sorts made 25/-. Most of the lambs penned were small growa. the lightest entries making 18/-, FAT CATTLE . In from Porangahau, 8 mediuM-fraraa ed Aberdeen Angus and- Heroford. cows, showing age and carrying qulto a lot of condition, but of plain qual« ity, were passed at £6 15/-. Seven small-grown clean-bred Aberdeen Angus bullocks, light finished, but would top off readily as prime quality, were passed at £8 15/-. Nine ftmall-framed Aberdeen Angua cross heifers, in good order for finish* ing as prime, were passed . at £5 15/-. These heifers were xather light, but showed quality. In from Porangahau, 8 Aberdeen Angus cross cows, plain in quality. wero passed at £5 10/-. Also from Porangahau, a truck lot of " clean-bred small-framed Aberdeen Angus cows, medium finish, were passed at £5 11/6. f TORE CATTLE. In from the back country, 89 medium-grown Aberdeen Angus and Heref ord weaner Bteers, showing good * coats, and a little uneven grown, in medium condition, were passed at £& An entry of 15 rising 3-year cleahbred Aberdeen Anguh steers, medium grown, in very good store condition, ready for the finishing paddock, wero passed at £7 15/-. An entry of 21 rising 3-year Aberdeen Angus heifers, described as being empty, .in good store condition^ were passed at £5 1/-. " . " ' * " ; On account Mr. A. McLean, Poranga-\ hau, 13 Heref ord cows (i.c. to Aberdeen Angus) met the market at £5. The Weaner steers off these cows, unevenly grown, brought £4 2/-. - • V An entry of 28 well-bred mediumgrown Hereford weaner steers, well coated and in good order. were passed at £4 16/-. ' K ; 5 fat sheer, An entry of well-woolled prime heavy ewes brought 24/-. U A line of 20 small to medium-grown prime Down-cross wethers were passed at 24/3. An entry of early-shom emoll-fram-ed wethers of medium qualitv were passed at 25/-. » Nine early-shom heavy prime-quali-ty wethers sold at 29/5. A line^ of prime heavy ewes, vsry well woolled, sold at 25/1. STOBE SHEEP Off hill country, 181 medium-grown woolly Romney wether lambs, the best being in good store order, the line in first condition, passed at'16/-. One hundred and fifty-one mediumgrown hill-country eariy-shorn Romney wether , lambs, in handy order, made On account of Mr R. Matthows, Whakarara, 252 nicely-grown and wellwoolled Romney wether lambs brought20/6, These earried quite a lot of condition, being a good-handling line in f fresh and attractive order. Out of the same draft, 110 amallgrown lambs, in bright, healthy order. sold at 18/7. J On account of Mr D. Ritchie, Oma- - kere, 130 early-shom Romney wethe? . lambs in very good store condition brought 15/10. On account of Mr W. White and Son, Otane, 152 shorn well-grown Corrie* dale-cross lambs, in particularly healthy and bright order and carrying • lot of condition, sold at 14/0. Down from Argyll, a line of 80 wellmouthed ewes, carrying a good slipn and in lamb to S.D. rams, met tho* market at 27/6. In from Mangaorapa, 80 very smallgrown woolly Romney ewe lambs, in poor condition, sold at 13/-. On account of Mr H. Norris, Omakere, 80 nieely-grown ewes, in fresh arder and particularly well done, tbe roundation of a good breeding h'ne and showing quality throughout. met the market at 30/1.