Good market for ewes at Ashburton

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32975, 22 July 1972, Page 20

Good market for ewes at Ashburton

There wee a particularly good market for both good-condition ewes and ewe hoggets at the Ashburton breeding ewe and hogget fair this week.

A very good quality yarding consisted of 8850 adult ewes, 500 two-tooth ewes, 7150 ewe hoggets, and 320 wether hoggets, of which most were autumn shorn. Adult ewes met a good Inquiry, only a small percentage going outside Ashburton County—to mainly North Canterbury, Otago, and South Canterbury.

Top price for ewes was for a pen of 126 well-grown mixedaged Border-Romney cross ewes bred by McLauchlan’s Grassmere, There was a very strong demand for well-grown ewe hoggets. All breeds sold well, a big proportion of hoggets going as far south as Invercargill and as far north as Kalkoura and also to the West Coast. Top price for ewe hoggets was for a pen of 218 very well bred and woolly Romneys from R. H. Watson, which sold for $lO.lO. Also, W. R. George sold a pen of 141 well-bred and well-grown Romney hoggets at $9.50. Values were:—

Romney ewes.—Two-tooth ewes, $7.50; mixed aged ewes, $6.10 to $7.35; one-year ewes, $5.30 to $6.75.

Leading prices were:— C. A. Watson, 500 five-year Romney ewes, $6.50 to $7.35; Fleming Farming Company. 550 mixed aged Romney ewes, $6.10 to $7.35; J. I. Anderson, 500 oneyear Romney ewes, $6.20 to $6.75; R. M. Gray. 300 one-year Romney ewes $6.20 to $6.40: Isherwood Farm Company, 89 two-year Romney ewes at $6.60; Lili Bros, 380 mixed-aged Romney ewes at $6.35; Clarkson Bros, 150 oneyear Romney ewes at $6.40; Est. M. A. Watson, 148 one-year Romney ewes at $6.20. Corriedale ewes.—Mixed-aged ewes; $5.60 to $6.80. H. G. Mowat, 168 mixed-aged ewes at $6.80. Also. G. C. Keast, 111 annual draft three-quarter-bred ewes at $6.20; J. M. Hampton, 450 four-year-old halfbred ewes at $5.05 to $6.50. Ewe hogget quotations:— Woolly Romney, from $7 to $10.10: shorn Romneys, from $5.90 to $8.00: border Romneys, from $6.60 to $8.40; Perendales. from $7.25 to $7.90; Corriedales, woolly ST to 58.50 and shorn $6 to $7-

Leadlng prices were:— T>. R. Crawford, 115 woolly BorderRomnev cross at $8.35: Manawanui Farm, 184 January-shorn Romneys at $8; A. M. C. Robins, 180 Border Romney cross at $8.40. 11l Perendales at $7.90, and 360 shorn Romnevs from 57.05 to $7.80; F. C. Tasker. 312 Corriedales from 87.56 to $8.50; D. E. N. Stevens, 400 woolly Romneys from $7.30 to $7.80; R. F. Smart, 59 shorn Perendales at 57.25; W. J. Evans, 167 shorn Perendales at $7.50; A. J. Lysaght 283 shorn Romneys from $7 to $7.05; A. M. Harcourt, 200 shorn Corriedales at $7.