SHEFFIELD MARKET

Press, Volume L, Issue 15017, 11 July 1914, Page 13

SHEFFIELD MARKET

Yesterday at the Sheffield monthly sale there was a yarding of 2100 sheep and lambs, of which 950 Avere in tho fat pens, lambs accounting for 670, the balance being made up practically of owes, only 70 being wethers, in einall odd lots. The bulk of the lambs wero little better than stores. In the store pens there %vero 6CO hoggets. 240 crossbred wethers, 160 merino wethers, 100 crossbred ewes in lamb, and 50 merino owes in lamb. . The majority of the sheep were of a poor class, and in backward condition. There was a good attendance of farmers and others. Comretition, though slow;, was good for the class of sheet) offered, both fats and stores, and tho bulk of the yarding changed hands at the following prices: —Fat crossbred wethers, 20s 6d to 24s 3d; fat merino wethers, 15s; fat crossbred owes, 18s 3d to 225: lambs, los 4d * v ,l7s lOd. a few to 18s lid; two-tooth halfbred wethers (small), 18s; two, four, and six-tooth crossbred wethers (small), 18s lOd to 19s lid ; inferior 17s 8d; two, S? four -tooth crossbred ewes,'in lamb, 235: six and eight-tooth ditto, 27s 6d; sound to failing-mouth morino owes, >n a? ' 1( - 5 9d : < * ye ho £geis (small), 14s 4d to 1/s 6d; mixed sexes, I4s 3d, to los: wethers, 13s 9d to 14s 6d; merino wethers, 10s 6d to lis. About.3o pigs were yarded, all of which sold at full prices.