SELLING AT ADDINGTON YARDS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18921, 9 February 1927, Page 11

SELLING AT ADDINGTON YARDS.

TO TIIK KMTOR Of TIIK IT.F.SS. Sir, The old method of the fair held and no favour was generally responsible for the popularity and the bona fides of tho Atidington sale as a. realising centre. As will happen in connexion with ji huge organisation like this, several minor injustices from time to time cro„ up. but have all been amicably met, but the unthinking mind that was responsible lor the seetionising of tho different classes of sheep in tho store sheep department will have a lot to answer for in the hereafter. I send my .sheep forward to the market, and they are actually penned up on Tuesday afternoon, and in place of their being sold in rotation, when the draw lakes place all the entries of store lambs are given a priority of sale to icy sheep, yet 1 pay night ices and yard fees, and my consignment is relegated to the latter part of the catalogue, when the Hush of the buyers have disappeared. The question of crueity to animals goes into thin air when you think that a good many consignments of adult sheep have been on routo for several days, including perhaps driving prior to shipment, then on board tho Iwat, and then either trucked through or driven over the hills in this awful heat, and to linish up with they arc not allowed to be «>ld until late in the day. It is 100 to 1 they have been penned up all night in the, yard and have to be charged with night fees. Instead of Iteiug loaded with night fees and day fees, their selling fees should lie 75 per cent, loss as compared with tho lambs, übieh, for the most part, represent the tail end of the vendors' annual crop, and which section is now given priority of sale. Coder this ssytein the agents will soon be classing all the halfbred wool together, and the Southdown wool together, and so on, and will lie selling all the led cows in one section and tho white cows in another, and pigs will bo classified into ages, and other equally ridiculous movements are likely to bo inaugurated. Trusting to hear some other views on the matter.—Yours, etc., A FAIR FIELD AND.NO FAVOUR.