SHEFFIELD MARKET.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14993, 13 June 1914, Page 13

SHEFFIELD MARKET.

At the Sheffield sale yesterday there was a yarding of 3850 sheep and lambs, of which 2520 were in the fat pens, lambs accounting for 1920, the balance

being mado up of 450 ewes and a few small lots of wethers. There were a few lines of good and finished lambs, but the bulk were of light and medium quality. The ewes were chiefly good, useful* sorts, but with the exception ot two small pens, the wethers were only little better than' good foirward sorte, and were taken by graziers. The stores, with few exceptions, were of a poor class, and backward in condition, lbero was a good attendance, both of larmers and freezing buyers. Competition for fats was barely as keen as of: hue but all lines changed hands at auction or privately. The stores, wrth two or three exceptions, met a slow market, and the bulk were » but a full clearance was «•***« P? 1 afterwards. Prices bred wethers 19s to 245, unfinished 17s 7d to ISs sd. fat lambs 17s to 20s, unand light 15s to 16s 10d. fat SlSdew«lh to 19s 0d infenor 12s 6-1 to 14s Bd. four-tooth halfbrcd wftWs (backward) 15s 9d two-tooth crossbred wethers (small ™"Vr'tT\ls 13s 3d to 14s, owe lambs 13s to 14s 3d. mixed sexes 13s lid to 14s Id, wethers Us 7d, two, four, and sixtooth crossbred ewes m lamb _.fc •*'• Principal sales were :-Accotmt D. F.nmm, 3-5 fat crossbred wether* 21s lOd to 21s; W. B. A'-stin 70, fat lnmbs »* 18, 4d to 20,: T) J \% «* 17s 4d to 19s sd; D. McMillan, 161 at 19s 3d; Pollock. 37 at 18s 9d ; A. McDonald. 146 at 18s 7d; J. Vatam, 6b at ISs'Cd; client. Mat 13s 6d; G. Butler, 25 at ISs od; Martin Bros.. b9 at 16s lOd to 18s 4d; W. Dorman, 103 at 18s Id; J. Jebson 16 at 18s; D. Ilumm. 18 at 18s; E. Adams 28 at 17s lid; H. Heinish, 30 at 17s 7d; W. Lilly, 67 at 17s 6d; J- Gcmmell, 78 at 17s 4d: W. l r ™°: 31 at 17s 4d; J. Seymour, <Q at 17s 3d; G. F. Wright. 161 at 1/s; C. Pinner. 59 at 17s: J. R. Cullen, 70 at 17s; Mrs Cogan. 156 at 16s lOd; client, 81 two, four, and six-tooth crossbred ewes in lamb 23s 3d. About 45 pigs, chiefly small sorts. Sales were:— Baconers £2 10s to £3 lis, weaners 7s to Bs, slips lis. Cattle—Forty yarded, including a !£> of four-year-old steers. Bulk of the entry passed. cows £6. 15s to £11 10s, heifers £4 2s 6d to £4 15s.