STOCK PRICES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 30 November 1927, Page 5

STOCK PRICES

STORTFORD LODGE SALE. BIG ENTRY OF CATTLE. RISE IN VALUE. At Stortford Lodge saycyards today there was a big yarding of both fat and store cattle. Good quality fats were offered and prices were very firm in spite of the numbers yarded. Bullocks, when prime, brought in the neighbourhood of 32/6 per 100, while practically all lines were sold under the hammer with keen competition. Several lines of good store cattle were yarded and bidding for these was very keen throughout the sale. There was a comparatively email entry of fat sheep, but these sold wel| up to recent rate*. The store pens were practically empty, and the quality of those sheep ottered was not up to last week. Prices were on a par with recent sales, or perhaps slightly easier. EAT CATTLE Cows: Prime £7 15/- to £9 5/-, medium £6 to £7 4/-. fight £5 to £6. unfinished £4. Bullocks: Prime heavy £l3 10/. to £l4 2/6. light prime £lO 4/- to £l2 9/-. medium £9 2/6 to £9 17/6, light £8 2. 6 to £8 12/6 unfinished £7 15/-. Heifers: Prime £8 to £8 I/., medium £6 101- to £6 17/6, light £5 to £6. Vealers: £1 6/- to £1 12/6. STORE CATTLE, Mullocks and Steers: 14 fwd. Herelord blks., some small, well sold at £9 4/-; 15 small 3-yr. store steers, mostly Hereford, t>. £6 - 22 3-yr P.A. store steers, fairly well grown, £7 10/-: 14 store blks. mixed breeding £7; 2 Hereford cross 2-yr. steers £4 5/-; 2 P.A. cross 3-yr. steers £8; 1 store Hereford blk. £8; 11 good 2-yr P.A. steers £7; 7 fwd. and light fat 3-yr. steers £8 12/-; 1 P.A. 3-yr. steer £7; 4 3-yr. fwd. steers £7 18/-; 1 small poor 2-yr steer 10/-■ 12 3-yr.’ steers, very mixed breeding, p. /ff; 1 dairy cross 4-vr. blk £7; 18'wellbred but small 2-vr. P A. steers from Poporangi Station £5 6/-: 4 H-yr "tation steers £6 1/-; 9 3-yr. Shorthorn cross steers p £4 17/6. Cows and Heifers: 57 2-yr. P.A. heifers from Poporangi. well-bred small cattle in ord. store condition £5 2/-: 19 2-yr. heifers, mixed breed, ing. £3 13/-: 1 P.A. cross store vow £4 10/--1 heifer with calf at foot £3; 2 yearling Jersey cross heifers springing) £1 17/6; 7 good P.A. heifers ex-Poporangi £5 7/6: 4 fresh cond empty dairy cows £1; 1 empty dairy cow £3 5/-: 1 Jersey heifer t - 3 6/-; 1 empty Jersey cow. small, £2 10/-: 1 yearling Jersey heifer, good. £5; 1 empty Jersey cow fair frame. £3 15/-. Dairy cattle were offered while the fat sheep were beinm sold, h»nc» wo were unable to record prices. FAT SHEEP. Ewe g (shorn) : Prime I'J.’J to XO/J. medium 17/9 to 18/9. Ewes (woolly); Primo heavy p. 28/6. prime 25/3, medium 23/6, haul 22/6. Hoggets (woolly): Good BD. cross 29/4. Lambs: Good 23/6 to 24/9. Wethers (shorn). Prime 25 /. to 26/10. STORE SHEEP. Wethers: 303 empty framed 2-th. weds, in fresh store to fwd. cond. but on small side p. 22/6; 150 small 2-th. weds, in fresh cond. p. 19/8: 67 fwd. cond. but small 2-th. weds. 23/6; 44 fair 2-th. weds., some small. 21/8. Ewes: 15 fresh cond. 2-ths. 23/8: 10 woolly ewes with 14 lambs (ali counted) p 17/6.