LIFELESS SELLING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 34, 3 November 1937, Page 6

LIFELESS SELLING

- . Store Gattle Values . , The 'yafding .of '500 liead of , store ' cattle '' &t> . Stoftford Lodge ' to-day did not 'gike'' buyers a" good range 'of ' selectioii . and/ on- the Tin'es 'offt red,' it was difficult' to' guage the market. * Thb "selling was lifeless due to the' abs'eric'e -of good quality' lines.' The exception was a well-bred draft railed from Waihau, - Wairoa, of nicely growu two-yeai; • Hereford steers which were keenly - competed for to" sell out at £S 8/- ' The ; yea'rling steers. ■ offerqd • were small 'grown and in poor or'der. Empty cows in' medium to fonvard condition brought £6 .5/-. -V ■* •- 1 RqaliSatious^were as under : — . "In from . Maraekakaho 21 inedium. gro'wn two-year^old - Aberdeen . Angus steers, in; good order, made £7 15/-. A line of 58 sniall to medium grown yearling, . Aberdeen' Angus' - "Hereford cross steers "in ■ rather ' poor "order brougttit £5 5/-. - •• On..accoulit. of- Mr ;E.; H, Glendining, Waihau, , and ■ railed this morning/ 63 ; well' grown , , and ' well bred . dehorned two-year - 'Hereford . steers in good lcnodition/beihg the"'foundation of good chillers,' .nfet' the; market at £8 -8/-. i ;A;nle.ntryi of. medium -gfown- t'wo-year • Aberdeen«Angus-Hereford cross • heif ers :in*pbpr/order, Jtna'de • £4 -10/-. ; ' A/ iipe • of poorly • grown yearling Herefprd . stfeeis, . ' . in„ , light* order, i brought ;£5.*, 1 . I . In from - Puketapu, 33 three-year Aberdeen Angus steers, medium' grown and -in'.fair order," made £8 10/-. An'.enfry- of ;;4l m'edium" grown* Hei'e- ■ ford steers, in- light* order, were pa'ssed ;at;.£7. * - - • In ' f rom,Puketapu,. 21 medium. grown three-y.ear'/horned*' Hereford; steers, ' in ligh't; .condition/ -wjere/passed/at : £8. .5/-. . A pen of * 17/ empty; Hereford cross cows, in' lighkUondition, made £5 -8/-. Av.well-framed.'-'line of 17 empty Aberdeen . Angus , cows • in ■ medium *■', to forward -order; made £6 5/-. • . ..