HOGGETS EASIER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 187, 25 August 1937, Page 6

HOGGETS EASIER

Market Comes Back For Store >Lines - .HASTINGS SALE The market for hoggets was definitely easier at Stortford Lodge* to-day, when values were down as much as 2/3 on last week's rates. . Tlie outstanding entry was on account of Mr W. 'Kinross Wliite, of well-bred ewe hoggets, shorn. as lambs,%hich sold at 33/4. The . best .ewe hoggets, unshom as lambs, made 23/-'. Fairly grown fat and forward woolly wether hoggets brought 26/1 Pens in forward order and fairly grown ranged from 23/- to 24/-, while otliers shoivitig a Corriedale cross brought 21 /i, . and a very hardy small grown line, showing a Leicested cross, made 22/-. 4 / ; An offering of ewes with: lambs at" foot was made', the lambs being early docked and in very sturdy order, making 17/- all eounted. -* Fattening ewes ranged from 12/- to ii/-. . ; ; Later in the selling second-quality hoggets were ■ more diffioult to trade than had been the' case, for some weeks. Realisations were as under/-— A draft of 557 Romney cross woolly wether hoggets, a few ha,ving been shorn as lambs, the tops ' medium to well grown, • in forward .order and healthy, sold in two cuts at 24/1 and 23/10. These hoggets were very bright and should develop wqll.o'ff the shears. On account of Mr Kinross White, and in from Waikaeao, 151- well. grown and well (bred 4 white-faced . ewe hoggets, shorn as lambs, being in >p.articularly sound and healthy condition, and should develop into excellent twotooths, sold at 33/4.. • * Lorried down from Wairoa, 72 woolly ewe hoggets, medium "grown and in good store order, biit i lacking the size of the previous line, brottght' 32/-.", From the same sour'ce an entry of woolly wether hoggets, .-medium grown and in forward .order, .healthy and bright, xealised 25/3. ' Down from Matapiro, ran. entry of mixed-aged store / ew'feSj, a fattening proposition, brought 14/-.. An entry of small -;.g£Ownttwo-tooth , wethers, in very mixed;. onder, Some being' very tucked nip^ made, a good sale at 24/-. ' " ' " "■ A line of small. to mediumi grown ewe hoggets, shorn as . lambs, i.in -poor condition, a number coughing badly, made a good sale at 20/-. - - 4 An entry of 96 small grown Corriedale cross wether hoggets, in medium store concfilion, realised 2G/9. In from Fernhill and' on^ account of Mr R. Pejersen, 39 ewes;with 4l lambs by Southdown rams. at fbpt,;\yere passed at 16/- all eounted. The "lambs were well developed "and in^sturdy order. " On account of Te . Apiti/ 82 whitefaced wether hoggets!, sh'oTn-as lambs, medium grown/ with a'' number on the small side, brought 19/-. ' A further entry on/ account of Mr Pedersen, 45 ewes, wi.th -;46 earli.erdocked lambs by Southdown rams at foot, in good sturdy condition, sold. at 17/-,, all eounted. An entry of 70 woolly white-faced hoggets, well grown and in fat and forward order, a number; being ready to hang up, sold at 26/1, .