STORE SHEEP VALUES

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

STORE SHEEP VALUES

Easier Tone at Hastings Sale TOP HOGGETS SELL AT 34/3 Except for extra good entries, „ the ' market for . store sheep - at Stortf ord Lodge to-day was slightly, easier. The: principal entries were -• shorn • two- . tooths, -woolly hoggets • and *'ewes with lambs at foot. •- -v : \ ' .The :best shorn two'-tooth wethers"in' forward - order brought '22/8 - and similar ;aged ewes shorn. real^sed 31/1." A.few lin'es of ; Southdown * cross two-tooths ma.de- 21/1 .for lots -showing siz^.with. oth.e'rs, . light in". condition, making. 17/6* A'ge'd. ewes with fair mouths.and, with forward lambs • at foot - brought '.to 19/10 ; ail .ceunted. ; , \ : ; - ' The" tbp.'price..of. the. sale for-wether, hoggets was the splqndid figure of- 34/3. for a . linev bred; at ^Ridgemount Station. . Eealisatiohs', were ^'asj under:— ; i . . " An.', entry of ■ 202 .' f airly . grown , well woolled 'fat • an'd . iorward.. we'th'er ., hoggets, ] xn' briglit; cpndition, , yvere "passed at 'tKe^ohly/bi'i 'of ,30/-. r • , A • draft of 212 quite ^ '.'well grown' shorix .;two-to6th\wethers, in -, gqqd. store • c6hdxtion/^.hd/in' first-class' order, met the "market/at -22/8: A" - line, of . 145 - shorn ., two-tooths, } in good' order. and/shoMd ;quickly;'run to; mutto^'werq ;passed(at" 20/3". - " An entry of '60' aged' ewes with - fair mouths, with' 19 • late Vlambs at ' foot thrown in, .sold at-20/6. • - A mediuni grown line of 104- shorn Southdown crOss two-tooths, ,.in medium coqdition only, -brought. 19/3. Fairly .-grown, . 58 -fat and forward shorn two-tooth wethers in -good order, with, a percentage .ready to hang up, made . 22/10. . . ; ' - - ; On account of Mr. G. . F. Goodrick, Mangateretere, an entry of fairly grown well- woolled Romney wether hoggets, in -.forward , order and . well winteredj/r.ealised 29/4.' • An entry - of - 51 • aged '.fair mouthed ewes, ' with " 55 well , deyeloped . sturdy lambs at fOot," realised '20/2, all-'count-ed. >;*. . .'/ , . A line of-, 183 well fr'amed shorn fat-and-forward . Wethers : in " good condition b rough t 24/10. / * '* An entry. , of,, 75 shorn, quite well grown f two-tooth ewes, , in good." condition, met. .Tyith'lceen . coinpetiti'on -to sell at 31/li ' ■ •'- -, AHine . of :i23 : medium." grown - Southdown'. cfosa; shorjx* -two;tooth> ewes,"- inlight store' order, were 1 passedf at ' 17/9.' t Medium •,'grqwn-;- aidj-ini, bright order,; 95 whitd-fa.ced'" ewe" hoggets, in "the wool, ; sold?bhf . 25/-. . v .. ; A:.line^/86* aged ewes, with '10,6 well growjq -forward'" Down cross lambs at foot/ffiidp;. 19/10, - all counted. - .- : On- acqqjiht, of ,,Mrs." G.;E. Ohambers, Havelock 'North, and - breci at Ridge.mqunt Statioii, a line of extra well' 'grown ^and well woolled^ Romney weth'er hoggets, in exceptional' order, being an - outstanding offering, 'realised f 34/3.