STEADY SELLING

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

STEADY SELLING

Bigger Cattle Entry at Stortford Lodge VALUES COME BACK Quality was well featured in to-day 's yarding of fat cattle at the Stortford Lodge sale, when a sound market xuled throughout. Values, however, wsre down by 15/- a head on those made last week, when prices showed a sharp rise of up to 30/- a head, due to the uni ueually short yarding. Butchers were afforded a good range of seleetion to-day, and for all the quality pens there was keen competi1 tidn. Female pens predominated and over half of the yarding eonsistfed of pens of heifers. « Heifer beef made to 31/6 per 1001bi A fine draft, well-finished and shcrwing quality, of 61 heifers from the "Washpool" made an attractive offering, av* eraging £9 13/- a head. Railed from Wairoa, a draft of good cows and heif« ers from Potutu Station, and offered on account f Mr Bernard L. Chambi ers, made the fine average of £10 3/3, The condition in which these cattle came forward showed how well they are carried by rail. Other good drafts offered were oq account of Mr N. M. Campbell of "Netherton" Station. Finished cows were also sought afto^ and making to £10 10/-. The only draft of ox beef was on aw count of Mr Robert Harding, of Rau* kawa, wbich averaged 36/- per lOOib* These bullocks were well finished, male ing an attractive offering. Realisations were ae under: — COW BEEF PRICES. "On account of Mr Athol .Williams, Netherton Station, an entry of horned heavy solidly-finished prime Hereford cows, in extra good order, sold to £1(1 10/-. In from Mangakuri Station, . a peq; of well-finished heavy prime Herefor^ cows brought to £10 5/-. A pen of dehorned aged Hereford cows, carrying. a lot of condition, bul| very plain, made £7 7/6. OX BEEF. RATES. On account of Mr R. Harding, Hau* kawa, four well-framed heavy welL finished Aberdeen-Angus cross bullocks^ showing primo quality, brought £13 8/6w In the same pen, a single heavy; solidly-finished prime Shorthorn buL lock sold at £14 10/-. i Also in from Raukawa, five dehorned Hereford bullocks, smaller framed than the previous pen, but equally well finished^ and showing extra good quality, sold in a line at £12 15/-, HEIFER VALUES. "" On account of Mr H. M. Glazebrook^ the Washpool, a draft of several peni of dehorned Hereford and AberdeenAngus heifers, medium grown and solidly finished, showing prime quality throughout, met with keen bidding to sell up to £10 18/-. These heifers cam« forward in most attractive order and should kill out as choice young beef. In from Netherton Station, a singlo small extra-prime Shorthorn heifef in splendid order made £9. In the sam« pen, a heavy Shorthorn-cross solidly^ finished prime heifer, showing extrii good quality, topped the market at £111 15/-. On account of Mr B. L. Chamber*,. PotuDu SFation, a young extra-prim» medium-grown Hereford heifer sold at' £10 5/-: On account of Mr N. M. Campbell, a draft of several pens of well-finished medium-tTamed AberdeemAngus and Hereford heifers, showing good quality and should hang up in particularly good condition, were readily sought after, selling to £10 10/-.