AT STORTFORD LODGE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 74, 30 April 1930, Page 5

AT STORTFORD LODGE

BIG YARDING OF COW BEEF. PRICES EASY ON RULING VALUES SOME GOOD BULLOCK BEEF OFFERING. The rain that was falling had its effect upon the attendance at the Stortford Lodge sale this morning, and when operations started there were only about 30 buyers on the benches. The numbers of buyers increased as the sale wore on, but at/no time were the benches fully occhpied. There was some very fair quality bulloek beef offered, but bidding _ in this section was far from hrisk. Prices of hullock heef at the end of the sale were ahout flush with ruling values. The first pen, three prime Shorthorn steers, was sold subject to vendor's approval at £12 10s. A bid of £11 10s secured the next pen of light prime to prime P.A. bullocks. A line of six Hereford-Shorthorn cross bullocks, light in condition, was passed at £8 10s. Four prime Hereford bullocks, good compact cattle, fattened in the Meanee district, were put by at £10. * Four bigger and heavier Shorthorns from the same mob were put by at £11. Four prime heavyweight Herefords were good value at £11 12s. The top price for the dny's bulloek market was £13 11s, paid for three splendidly conditioned prime heavyweight Herefords from the Pakowhai district. A line from the same draft, not to he compaired with the others, sold at £10 12s. There was the largest selection of cow beef offering that has heen seen in the yards for some weeks. Bidding in this class was of the spasmodic variety, and taking quality into consideration, cow beef was easier than it has been previously. Prices on cow beef em'braced a fairly wide range. Two prime to prime heavyweight P.A. cows were knocked down at £8 and £9 15s respectively. Three Shorthorns, a light line for the fat pens, sold at £5 16s. Large numbers of fat cows sold on quality at prices ranging between £6 10s and £8. Two empty Jersey cows in fair oondition fetched £6 15s, one of lighter quality selling at £5. A bid of £5 5s secured two more daiiy crosshreds, a further light line. Top price in the heifer beef offered was secured for a single P.A. -Hereford cross hifer in prime heavyweight condition, which fetched £8 15s. A number of pens of P.A. cows and heifers, a good stamp of cattle, in fat to , light prime order, showing signs of having been for days on the road, were sold on behalf of Mr G. C. Williams, of Rangitapu Station. The heifer beef offered sold at £7 12s, £8, £7 16s, this for three firstclass little bodies of heifer beef, £6 15s. Cow beef from the same source sold according to quality at £7 12s 6d, £4 17s, £7 10s, £8 2s, £7 2s 6d. Baby beef in the form of a light prime P.A. Shorthom vealer sold well at £3 19s. Other lighter conditioned vealers sold from £1 12s 6d to £2 10s. In the store section, empty dairybred cows, all light in condition, sold at £2 10s and £3 10s. , There was a mediocre yarding in the sheep pens. Prices of fats ranged round about last week's area. There were no fat wethers yarded and most of the ewes yarded were of medium quality. Prices of fat ewes ranged from 13s to 16s 7d. Fat lambs sold from 16s 6d to 23s, according to quality.