SOUND MARKET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 204, 14 September 1937, Page 6

SOUND MARKET

Store Cattle in Demand at Waipukurau WETHERS UP TO 36/3 Agotber fairly large yarding of store cattle was made at Waipukurau to-day, wben a sound market prevailed. Tbe offering, tbe quality of wbicb was mueh below tbat of last week, attraeted the attention of a large number of buyeru from outside districts. A number of well-bred station lines of steers and beifers came for ward, but a fairly big percentage was composed of small pens of miscellaneous and nondescript eutries. Good quality sorts were confiued to a few lines only, whicb included some nicely-grown yearling steers, wbicb topped tbe market at iti 15/-. Tbe market was not tested with useful 2 or 3-yr steers, but a medium to well-grown line of 91 young Aberdeen Angus bullocks sold at £10 which, on the basis of condition and size, sold equally as well as the best lines last week. Well-grown 2-yr. heifers brought £6 12/6. Similar-aged smaller-grown Aberdeen Angus heifers made £4. Breediug cows heavy in calf have improved considerably, and to-day made to £7 ll/*« Quality was completely lacking in the fat cattle pens, which consisted chiefly of Jersey and dairy sorts. Most of the pens were very plain, only a very few of the cows showing a good finish. Thebest entry of station-bred cows was od accoimt Estate J. H. Tuxford, Wanstead, whicb were a useful buteber's line to sell at £10 10/-.-A mucb larger yarding of fal sbcep was made to-day, and included several - good quality pens. Values, however, -yvere mueh below those ruling at Stortford Lodge last week. Tbe top beavy prime ewes brougbt 37/-, and beavy weU-woolled wethers 40/-. An exceptional single 2-th ewes made 44/-. Medium ewes were mucb cbeaper, making to 31/-. Tbe outstanding feature of tbe sale was tbe offering by tbe Hawke's Bay 1'armers' Go-op. Association of a line of store Wethers on aceount off^Mr. A. V. Collins, Otane, wbicb topped tbe market at tbe splendid value of 36/3. Tbis is tbe bigbest price reached 1'or some years. FAT CATTLE, A Jersey cross medium framed young cow, prime finish, did not make dear buying in tbe present cnarket at £8. A medium-framed Sbortborn cow in good condition tbat gave a springing appearance, made £9 10/-; In from Wanstead and on account of tbe Luxton Estate, tliree eleanbred small to medium framed Aberdeen ligbt finished cows brought £10 10/-. In the same pen two similar-bred small grown heifers, also liglit finished, brought £9 18/-. The heaviest of two aged dehorned Shorthorn cows, in plain order and lacking quality, brought £9. STORE CATTLE. On account Estate D. Y. Lethbridge, and in from "Mahoe," 36 young Aberueen Angus cross cows, put out with A.A. bull in December last, medium order and a useful breediug line, rerdised £7 1//-. An entry of 91 quite well bred and niedium-grown young Aberdeen Angus bullocks, a few showing a Heveford cross, brought £10. Tbe pick of the line? were in good cuedihni order, the smaller grown being in lighter condition. On accouut Mr. T. Wheleh, Lake Station, 22 well-grown 2-yr. Aberdeen An-gus-Hereford cross cattle, in quite good order and should develop into goot| breeders, sold at £6 12/6. On account of Estate of F. J. Joblin, 65 niedium-grown Aberdeen AugusHereford cross yearling fsteers, in good hardy order, well coated, brought £C 11/-. In from t'lie back of the Wilder Settlement and on account of Mr. J. McLeod, 23 mediuin grown yearling Aberdeen Angus-Hereford cross heifers, in fair order, sold- at £4. On account of Mr. C. Ellison, an entry of 15 medium-grown Aberdeen Angus heifers, showing up well in calf to A.A., in quite fair order, sold at £7 7/-. On account of Mr. A. T. Thompson, Porangahau, a line of well-grown and well-bred yearling Aberdeen Angus steers, good condition and hardy, sold at £6 1 5/-. * Ofl? very liard country, a line ot stunted dehorned 2-yr. Hereford- lieifeis, in very poor order, brought £4 12/-. A line of dean-bred nicely-grown yearling Heieforcl heifers, in good order, brought the same cnonev.

STOKE SHEEP.t On account tf Mr. N. WilJiams, 176 iiiediuiu-grown, woollv llomncy wether lioggots, in fat and forward order, off turnips, sold at 27/8. On account oi Mrs. A. V. Colims, "Homewood," Otane, 579 four-tooth wetners, including 20 six-to6th, well framed, realised 3(5/3. These wethers,

showing a Lincoln cross, were in torward order and would give an unusually heavy yieid of wool. The bidding started at 30/-, and they wero sold in oiie line after keen competition. Au entry of 30 well-grown Komney wether hoggets, in forward storo condition and well woolled, realised ?.0/-. A small entry of prime, good quality two-tootli wethers sold at 38/-. A pen of heavy well-woolled, prime wethers sold at 40/-. An entry of heavv,' extra prime, well-woolled ewds realised 37/-. A pen of 18 medium ewes, in ratlier hani condition, made 25/3. A pon of six-tooth ewes, believed to be maiden, in medium 1o light prime» order, wero passcd at 30/-. Two pens of medimn ewes, well woolled and in good killing order, were pnssed at 30/2. A pen of woollv i'omney hoggets, mediutn to heavy and in good order, made 28/3. Nine very heavy prime ewes, wliich should elip well, sold at 35/6. An exceptionally well-grown extra beavy prime hoggets. carrying a partieularly good fleece, made 41/-. A single maiden extra heavy prime two-tootli ewe topped the market at Wr. ■