QUIET SELLING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 17, 13 October 1937, Page 6

QUIET SELLING

^ Store Cattle Sale at Hastings Store cattle met a quiet sale at Stortford Lodge to-day, wrep. an entry of some 9O0 head was yarded. Bidding was restrained, and, although numerous lines met the market, buyers were apparently not prepared to go above certain. limits, and, in consequence, there were a number of passings. Young cattle were principally on offer, with a number of useful lines of two-year-olds meeting quite good demand. The sale, however, was not a ■spirited one, and until the weather breaks and more rain falls, it will probably remain quiet. Welected entries and prices paid, from wliich an idea of the state of the market may be obtained, are as i'ellow: — A pen of 35 A.A. and A.A.-Hereford crossbred two-year-old heifers, fairly grown and in quite good order, passed at £4 15/-. Seventy polled Hereford two-year-old heifers, a clean-bred fairly grown line, fresh conditioned, passed at £4 17/6. A line of 81 two-year-old A.A. and A.A. crossbred steers,. mixed in size, some being only the size of yearlmgy, and mixed in condition, passed at £6. Running with A.A, and Hereford bulls from December, a pen of 17 Hereford cows, horned cattle, down from Tutira, fairly framed, store condition, made £5 5/-. A Havelock North entry of 28 Hereford and Hereford-A.A. crossbred wsllocks, all dehorned, medium frame.d and store condition, and should come away well, met the market at £9. Fifty A.A. and , Hereford crossbred two-year-old steers, on account of Mr Gawen Holden, quite well grown and in good store order, realised £7 -9/-. A pen of 30 *two-year-old Hereford and Hereford crossbred steers, all dehorned, in from and on account of Tunanui, Station, medium grown and in fresh store order, passed at £7 5/-. A pen of 30 A.A. and A.A. crossbred tliree-year steers, well grown generally, a fattening proposition, passed. at £8.