FAT CATTLE VAULES

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 29, 4 February 1937, Page 2

FAT CATTLE VAULES

£l4 2/- Top Price for Line of Bullocks COWS UP TO £lO. (Special to “Times.”) HASTINGS, Last Night. Last week's advanced values for ! the short yarding of fat cattle were fully maintained at Stortford Lodge to-day, when a much larger yarding of 190 station-bred lines and 90 Jersey sorts came forward. The yarding included the best quality seen in the yards for some time, there being a larger offering of ox beef than his been submitted fo* many weeks. Recent sales have seen ox beef conSnod to single entries, £l4 being Teachid. To-day’s top price was £l4 2/- for in exceptional pen of heavy, extraprime de-horned Hereford bullocks offered on account of Pukekura Station, -fevoral pens of medium-grown well-fin-ished young bullocks ranged from £ll I >/- to £l2. The outstanding entry of femala :attle was on account of Beamish Bros., md Mr F. N. H. Beamish. These Whana Whana-bred Hereford cows and leifers met with eager competition to sell at very satisfactory rates. The top price for cows was £lO, but several pens making to £9 appeared to 3e dear enough. Values wero expected ;o be easier with the much larger yard.ng of good-quality lots for the butchers ;o select from, but short supplies on land enabled all lots to engage the attention of the butchers, with the result .hat evndors met with a selling that was jrohtly in their favour. Despite, this, lowever, a number of pens were passed. Realisations were as under: BULLOCK PRICES. Two medium to heavy prime quality Aberdeen Angus bullocks, ideal sumaer weight ox beef, brought to £ll 7/6 \ Three similarly-bred medium weight, jullocks of good quality made to £ll j An entry of two dehorned Hereford, ,n Aberdeen Angus and one Hereford ’ross medium-grown bullocks, well inished. a useful quality entry, sold at Four medium-grown, prime-quality, foung Aberdeen Angus Cross bullocks, if useful weights, made to 11 5/-. The following pen of slightly similar-? ired bullocks, equally well finished, ;ood quality, young beef, made £ll. Five clean-bred, medium-framed, irime-finished Abergeen Angus bul* ocks, a good summer-quality entry, vere passed at £ll. Three well-framed, horned Herefords, ight prime finished, were passed at 1 ISAOn bohalf of Pukekura Station, a pen •f outstanding prime-quality, heavy, iehorned Hereford bullocks command’d keen attention from the local butchers,- starting at-£l2 to sell at •rices ranging from £l3 10/- to £l4 2/-, he whole pen being purchased by Mr. x. Porter. Three heavy prime-quality, horned Hereford bullocks, well finished but ighter than tho previous dehorned mtry, realised £l2 15/-. The following entry of similarly>red, horned bullocks, being equally veil-finished ox beef, sold at £l2 15/-. In from the Tukituki, five medium io heavy prime-quality Aberdeen Angus >ullocks, well finished, were passed at ill 10/-. From the same source, a further mtry of similarly bred bullocks, ra:her lighter than the previous pen, was passed at £ll. COW VALUES j An extra prime-quality clean-bred Aberdeen Angus cow., well finished, realised £lO. A pen of heavy k prime-quality dehorned Shorthorn cows in good order realised £9. Five medium to heavy Aberdeen Angus cows showing good finish mado to £8 10/-. An entry of six dehorned aged Hereford and Shorthorn cows, plain finished and lacking quality, -made to £7. On account of Mr Eric McLeod, Raupare, six heavy solidly-finished dehorned Red Shorthorn cows maae to £8 16/-. On behalf of Beamish Bros., Whana Whana, four well-bred horned, medium to heavy young prime-quality Hereford cows, exceptionally well done, made £9 IS/-. The lighter sorts mado £8 15/-. On account of the same vendors, four medium-framed similarly-bred primequality finished cows made to £S 10/-. On account of Mr F. N. H. Beamish, Whana Whana, four medium-framed dehorned prime-quality Hereford cows, in excellent order, mado to £9 2/> On account of tho same vendor, five slightly lighter similarly-bred particularly well-finished cows made to £S 10/-. HEIFER RATES. On account of Beamish Bros., Whana Whana, threo medium-grown young horned Hereford heifers made to £9 7/6. These young he’fers wero exceptionally well finished, beirg choice quality young beef, which was eagerly competed for.