CATTLE VALUES ADVANCE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 116, 2 June 1937, Page 6

CATTLE VALUES ADVANCE

Double Market at Stortford To-day QUALITY AT A PREMIUM An all-ronnd advance" on fat cattle was recorded at to-day 's stock sale at Stortford Lodge, when a comparatively T small entry was yarded. With no sale set down for next Wednesday, because of the King's Birthday holiday,demand was good on to-day's double market, with butchers competing strongly for suitable cattle. ' Quality was not very prominent _ in to-day 's entry, aud with the exception of a few lines the bulk of the offering was inclined to plainness. These .plain lines met with quite good inquiry, but did not show the same degrpe *of improvement as the better-finished and weightier cattle. Bullocks were scarce, and only 4 • handfnl of suitable butchering entries were on offer. The buyers' benches were sparsely filled, the usuat complement of f ariners being absent. t Included in the entry, were drafts from Mr T. H. Lowry, Omarunui, and Mr. N. M. Campbell, Poukawa. Dairy sorts provided *a substantial tail to the fat-eattle sale, and realised up to £6 on top lines. '. Selected entries and prices paid, , from which an idea of the state of the" market may be obtained, are as follow; - HEIFER VALUES, A pen of P.A. and P.A.-Hereford . crossbred heifers, fairly framed, -light • to medium finished, made to £7. 19/- in cuts. An Omarunui-bred pen of .P.A. and P.A.-Hereford crossbred heifers, medium framed, and light to medium in finish, sold at £7 17/-, a - further pen ' making £7 -3/-. . . y A bid of £4 10/- secuted : * pen of four weU-bred PA., heifers,' on account of Mr Lowry, nacely grown" and . carryi ing 4 medium to prime finish, while a further pen went at £9 2/6. A pen of fbur dehorne'd .Hereford • heifers, in from Raukawa: and offered on account of Mr N. ,M. Campbell, small to medium frame'd, of. ' nice quality, met with' a sustained inquiry to sell at £8 for the tops/the'Temainder going at £6 12/6. " A further pen . of Raukawa Hereford heifers met the market at £8 .10/-, £7, 18/- and £7. £4 12/- was. the price paid /for a quality P.A. vealer heifer. COW PRICES ' Two well-grown P.A.-Shorthom- cows, well finished, made £8 2/-. Medium to prime finish, a pen of wellframed Hereford cross-bred. cows, realised- up to £8 10/-. . , ■ - In Brom Omarunui and on: account of Mr T. H. Lowry, jjwo big-framed P.A. cows, exceptionally heavy cattle, sold at £10 15/-. The remainder of the pen made to £10 5/-. •/ • Four Plain P.A. cows, . fairly-grown, medium-finished, made £8 2/-:* aud £8 1/-. . , " Two young dehorned Hereford cow»> lightly framed and finished- started «t £5 to sell at £5 17/6.- A further twosold at £5 5/-. A single prime P.A. cow,: well-grown and weighty, on account of a Waimarama vendor, sold at £10 from an £8 start. , , - A further seJection of Waimarama cattle, P.A., ranged froin £8 11/-. to£9 7/6. £10 7/- was the price paid for two fairly-grown prime-finished P.A. cows. Two Hereford and P.A.-Hereford cows, young cattle, medium-framed and finished, went at £9" 2 /-, two P.A. cows in the same p'en, in similar order, making £9 7/-, BULLOCK RATES • In from Te Aute ahd on account of Mr H. Tupaea, a single Shorthorn bullock, fairly-framed and finished, but of only ordinary quality,' made £13.A single Hereford bullock, fairlygrown, medium-finished, and' not paiw ticularly heavy, sold out at £13 12/-.