SPRINGSTON.
There was a good entry of sheep, and a j record entry of lambs at the Springston | lards on Monday. These yards, under j .Messrs Pyne and Co.'s management, have ' drawn a good business to Springston, and ! are proving of great advantage to the farmers ! of the district. On Monday, there were 1000 I fat lambs, and about 3000 store and a few j fat sheep sold. There was a keen demand : for prime freezing lambs, all of which sold j at liis to 17s. A very prime and choice line j of Mi- Alfred Farmer's, "a farmer's line," ': brought 17s. Other lines brought 16s 9d, ! 16s 3d, 16s Id, 15s lid, 15s Bd, 15s 7d, 15s i 6d, lSs, 14s lid, and 14s 9d. The average j price' for prime quality, and an average of j .41b weights, being 15s 6d. The freezing ! lambs were the small picked drafts out ol . fanners' lines. The principal buyers were j Mr W. B. Ch.kson, about 600; P. J. Fryer, j about 100; and A. S. Ford, 70. Mr George j Janicsoii, Mostyn, had a \ery nice line of I 500 lambs, his first draft, which were sold ! privately to Mr W. B. Clarkson at a satis- j itictory figure. Store lambs made from 12s ] 6d to 14s. A line of Mr John McCarthy's ' two-tooth wethers found a ready sale at 15s I 3d ; and a gocd line of full-mouthed ew-es, j in good forward condition, from Mr W. B. j Ciark_c.n, were sold at 16s 9d. An entry j of cattle and pigs sold at late market rates, j i
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10862, 11 January 1901, Page 6
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