SHEFFIELD.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13100, 27 April 1908, Page 8

SHEFFIELD.

At Sheffield. • sale oh 3Ti -day, tho yarding of. eh cap. and lamltt. totalled all-out- 8300. being the largest entry at thl. centre for ths* season. : Stores accounled for. 7000, chiefly ewes and wctiic.s, in about equal iproportions, the balance, about 1400, being lambs. The ...Ks-p, with few- exo.'ptions, consisteel cf dealers' lots,which were mostly in lew condition. •".. Lam'bj formed nearly the w_i_Jo of ihe entry of rats, a few fat owes, making up the- balance. Th_. lambs were, mostly on tho side. : An exceptionally well-finished line of about 80, sent in hy Mr J. _VtoGiilvray, topped the markot at 17b Bd. Th.. attendance was good. Pat and store lair.ibs sold well, but for,all olhw classes bidding was dull, and 'prices low, resulting in the hulk .of-the yarding being passed.- Sales were-:—Fat larats I.s to leu 2d, t_#_ to 17s Bd, light- unfinished 12s 10d"to/13s lOd. fat; crossbred ewes lis Gd to 12& Id,' inferior 7s 9d_ fat -merino ewes 6s Bd, two-toteth crossbred wethers lis 6d to 33-s 6d. forward to 15s. two-tooth halfbred wethers (small) 10s lOd to lis (3d, four-tooth crossbred owes los, twotooth 12s c.l to 13s lid, sound-mouth 10s to Ids i;d. aged 4s 9d, potters 2S to 2s fkl, sound-mouth merino ewes (Itak.t.iorp*.) & 3d td ft. 9d, others 3s ' od to J_. Dd, potters Is 6d, sound-mouth merino wetlxtrs (Dalethorpe), 7s Id. rape Jambs 10b 2d to 12s, stores 7s Id t< 9s 7d. !