SMALL YARDING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 168, 3 August 1937, Page 8

SMALL YARDING

Offering at To-day's Sale at Waipukurau HOGGETS SELL UP TQ'SO/There were small yardings in all seo* tions at the Waipukurau stock sale today. Beef cattle showed very little quality. Fat eows sold up to £8 15/end dairy cows to £5 10/-. Fat sheep wexe yarded iu small numbers and bidd ng for most lines was not brjsk. Sturc sheep met with a better demand from a fair attendance of buyers. Hoggets, again comprised the bulk of the varding, one line of woolly ewe hogget s, in good condition and well bred, ■«.eeting'a keen demand to sell.at 30/-. Itoalisationa were as under:— A pen of niitte light-framed Hereford cows, offered on account of McCormick Bros., sold without much competition at £0 5/-. . Six lighter sorts, the remainder ofthe same line, realised £5 10/*. Nine of the eame breed, in slightly better order, but of uneven quality, brought £5 17/-. Seven moderately well-growa cows, of uneven weights, sold from £3 8/ ti - for small grown Jersey-eross to £8 6/6 for good-framed Hereford in light pnme condition. Poorer Hereford sorts brought £5 10/-. In from Omakere, a well-developed young Red Polled cow realised £8 15/*. A mixed pen of six light Shorthorm cross and Aberdeen Angus cows wero passed at *£5. A line of 28 P.A. weaner cows scld with little competition for £5 9/6. Ten hungry-looking Btore eows, in very cold condition, brought £3 11/-. Forty smdll-grown heifers of fairly even quality sold in an apathetic market at £3 15/-. A few odd sorts of light-framed steers and heifers sold from £3 8/- to £6 17/6. In from Hatuma, a sixth-calver Jersey cow in calf tp a Red Polled bull sold at £4 5/-i Other dairy cows, second calvers and rising thixd calvers, realised from £3 10/- to £5 10/-. STORE SHEEP A pen of 140 2-th to 5-year ewes, down from Wakarara and'ruttning with Romney rams,. sold at 22/-. A pen of sound-mouthed ewes, in good order and showing well up in lamb, made 31/6. A line of 74 mixed-age ewes in lamb to S.D. rams wero passed at 25t/6. A pen of mixed-age ewes in good condition, a fair proportion of them young sheep, running with Romney rams, realised 30/6. In from Tikokino, a line of woolly ewe hoggets in good condition brought 27/-. A pen of 43 wether hoggets, medium framedj woolly and in good condition, made 20/6. A line of 67 fat and forward smallframed- Down hoggets sold at 17/6. • On aocount of Mr Percy Hunter, Porangahau, a line of woolly wether hoggets commanded good bidding to sell at 21/6. On accbunt of Mr J. McPhee, Norsewood, a good even line of 102 woolly ewe hoggets fetcbed 34/4. A line of 80 healthy Down wether hoggets, sound and well-grown, went for 19/2. A penx of 33 woolly wether hoggets sold readily at 19/-. A pen of 33 woolly ewe hoggets, small grown and in light condition, sold at 19/6. A pen of 34 uneven b.f. hoggets realised 16/6. A pen of 39 mixed-aged ewes (r.w. S.D. ram), in poor condition, sold at 13/3. A pen of f. and f. wethers realised 26/-. A line of 2-th ewes (i.e. S.D.), in good condition, sold at 34/11. A pen of 26 ew© hoggpts in light condition, realised 17/1. A pen of 68 woolly ewe hoggets, well grown, and of good, even quality. made 3QJ-. » , FAT SHEEP. A pen of 78 fat ewes, in medium 'condition, realised 18/-. A pen of 23 lat wethers, woolly, of medium frames and in prime order, sold at 27/9. A pen of medium-sized fat lambs. brought 19/9 A mixed offering of woolly ewe and wether hoggets, sold up to 32/-. A sniall pen of fat wethers, in good order, brought 28/-. A good, even pen of 27 fat wethers, m good condition and woolly, were passed. at 30/9, while a further pen of 12 heavier fat wethers, in good order. sold at 33/6.