STORE SHEEP FIRM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 70, 15 December 1937, Page 6

STORE SHEEP FIRM

Steady Inquiry at Stortford Lodge A firm tone was shown for store wethers at Stortford Lodge to-day, when the yarding was readily sought after. The selling was bright and display ed a feeling of eonfidence. Some good quality lines of twotooths were offered and commanded keen attention. The first offering of the season of store lambs was made, when a line, in forward order, and railed from Wairoa, realised 19/7. Shorn ewes with lambs at foot brought 14/6 all coujited. Realisations were as under: — An offering of 682 medium-grown early-'shorn four-tooth wethers brought the good ligure of 23/6 for 130. The balance were passed at this price. An offering of 427 quite well-grown early-shorn two-tooth wethers> in bright condition and healthy, sold at 22/4 for the first 300, the balance making 22/7. A line of 98 f.at and forward South-down-cross two-tooths, in good conditin, having been well done, met the market at 21/5. A small line of 61 early-shorn twotooth wethers, the best being in good order and quiclcly finished, sold at 21/9. The following entry of better-grown two-tooth wethers, in forward order, having been brought on well, sold at 22/6. A line of 87 two-tooth wethers, including a few Down-cross in medium to good storr order, brought 21/8. Railed from Wairoa, 94 Down-cross lambs, medium to well grown and in forward order, brought 19/7. These lambs siould be quiekly finished off at good weights. The line had not been gone through by fat buyers. A line of 107 two-tooth wethers, consisting of miscellaneous sorts, being mixed and not good in the wool, sold well at 21/-. A line of exceptionally good wellgrown DoWn-cross two-tooth wethers, in splendid condition, a number being xeady to hang up, sold at 22/6. Trueked from Wairoa, a line of me-dium-grown meaty Southdown lambs, in bright order and ready for putting on the rape, met the market at 18/4. A line of shorn aged ewes, with medium grown Down-cross lambs at foot, brought 14/6, all counted.