SMALL ENTRIES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 22, 19 October 1937, Page 6

SMALL ENTRIES

All Sections io Short Supply af Waipukurau

SHEEP SELL WELL An unusually small offering was made at tbe Waipukurau sale to-day. Tho principal entries were a few pens of store skeep which sold particularly well, especially for the shorn lots. Fat and forwaTd shorn 4-t/3oth wethers brought 25/-, and the new season5 s shorn 2-tooths realised 22/1. Smallgrown, shorn 2-tooth wethers, in light condition, mdae- good selling at 17/6. Unshorn pens were no cheaper to buyers. The fat pens consisted of a few heavy wethers and well finished hoggets. The cattle pens were deserted, there being only four Jersey cows offered. The continued dry weather accounted for the absence of store cattle. Realisations were as under:FAT SHEEP. Nine heavy priine crossbred wethers showing quality sold at 37/-. A small entry of prime, medium to heavy Down cross hoggets sold at 31/-. Two well-woolled heavy Romney prime quality hoggets realised 40/-. STORE SHEEP. An entry of 132 nicely grown' Romney wether hoggets, in fresh condition, brought 29/1. These well woolled hoggets were in forward order and very healthy. making an attractive line which should come off the sbears in good Order. A line of 100 Romney wether hoggets, shorn as lambs, being an uneven entry lacking condition - and in poor order, made a particularly good sale at 22/1. The appearance of the pen was improved by a few "blenders.55 A small lct of woolly Romney ewe' hoggets. farly grown, and in good order sold at 36/-. An entry or cull wether hoggets, shorn as lambs, in very poor order, and ragged) were dear buying at 19/6. An offering of 56 newly shorn fat and forward 4-th wethers, having come off the shears- well, met the market at 25/-. Un account same vendor an entry of 60 early shorn medium grown 2th wethers. in good order, brought 22/1. An entry of 43 Down cross shorn 2-th wethers, small grown and in light condition, made a good sale at 18/-. A line of small grown shorn Romney 2-th wethers, also' in light condition, some being in poor order, sold well at 17/6. " - CATTLE PRICES. A light finished young Jersey cow, in good killable condition,. sold at £5 *10/-.. An entry of one unfinished aged Jersey cow? being only boner quality, was passed at £3 16/-. A second calver Jersey cross cow with a calf at foot, brought £5.