WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 15 November 1927, Page 5

WAIPUKURAU STOCK SALE

BIG YARDING OF CATTLE

SMALL ONE OF SHEEP.

Again there was a comparatively big yarding ot fat and store cattle at Waipukurau to-day and a small yarding of sheep. The fat cattle were <>t distinctly better quality and finish than those offered through these yards for some time past, resulting in greatly improved competition and prices, life store cattle yarded were also of good quality and prices show a distinctly hardening tendency. Only one or two pens of store sheep were offered, 2-ths off shears finding a good market. FAT CATTLE. Cows: Prime £7 7/6 to £B, medium £6 8/6 to £6 18/6, light £5 8/6. unfinished £4. Bullocks: Medium £9 12/6, light £7 5/-, heifers (medium) £5 5/-, light £4 to £5. STOBE CATTLE. Bullocks and Steers: 16 P.A. 2 and 3-yr steers in fresh store condition £6 26, 18 S.H. store bullocks, fairly well grown, £7 17/6; 33 3-yr Hereford steers in fresh condition, ex Mangakuri Station, passed at £6 10/-; 3 station bullocks, hard and narrow, realised £5 15/-; 10 yearling P.A.-H. cross steers, fairly well grown, light condition, £4 10/-; 5 •small yearling P.A. steers £3 18/-; 7 2-yr P.A. steers, fair quality, £5 12/6; 9 3-yr Hereford cross store steers were well sold at £6 3/-; 1 2yr Hereford steer, fresh condition, £5 11/-; 1 2-yr Hereford steer (weedy), £4 15/-; 3 hard conditioned bullocks, big frames, £6 18/-; 4 Hereford cross store steers £5 6/-; 2 dairy bred steers £3 10/-; 1 small .Jersey steer £1 15/-; 1 poor Jersey steer £1 5/-. Cows and heifers. —25 well bred 2-year Hereford heifers, well grown and in fair store condition, an attractive line. 1 earmark, £4 16/-; 20 good 2-year P.A.-H. heifers, well bred stock in fresh condition, passed at £4 16/-; 29 first-class 3-year empty P.A. heifers, 1 earmark, an excellent line to establish a station herd, realised £5 12/-; 17 good Hereford empty heifers, an attractive line, £4 16/-; 19 good, well grown 2-year empty Hereford heifers, ex Mangakuri. £4 17/-; 4 3-year empty S.H. heifers, passed at £3 17/6; 15 3-year empty Hereford heifers, passed at £4 12/-; 13 P.A.-H. cross empty 3-year heifers, useful cattle, fetched £4 12/-; 11 dairy cross empty cows, fair frames, fresh condition, passel at £3 18/6; 8 P.A. empty cows, in fresh condition, good frames, fetched £5 15-'-; 10 weedy and bard 2-year station heifers, £3 3/-; 1 fresh condition Hereford heifer, £4 14/-; 1 empty P.A. heifer, £5 5/-; 1 empty heifer, fresh condition, £4 5/-; 4 P.A.-H. empty 3-year heifers, £4 13/-; 2 Hereford cross yearling heifers, £2 15/-; 3 smallframed, hard, empty cows. £2 7/-; 1 small empty heifer. £2 6/-; 1 Hereford cow, in calf to P.A.. £4; 1 P.A.-Hol. yearling heifer, £1 5/Dairy Cattle: 1 poor store heifer £1 17s 6d; I cow and calf, fair condition, £5: aged dairy cow in calf (guaranteed), £4 10s; 1 second calver (Jersey), due in Dec., £4 5s FAT SHEEP. Ewes: 22 shorn light fats. 17s 6d; 13 woolly light fats. 245: 21 good quality shorn fats, passed at 19s 3d; 14 fat woolly hoggets realised 27s 6d. STOBE SHEEP. Mixed sex 2-tooths: 15 m.s shorn 2-ths, mostly wethers, some small, realised 21s lOd; 47 m.s. woolly 2-ths (hoggets), fair skinned, good condition, 30s 2d. Ewes: 19 shorn ewes, hard condition. 15s. Wethers: 218 small 2-th wethers (off shears) passed at 21s 9d; 310 small 2-th wethers (off shears), fair condition and even, realised 22s 4d