RAM FAIR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 111, 3 February 1908, Page 9

RAM FAIR.

• ' • NAPjEh,.;.Tanum'j:; 30... i The annual ram -fair W!\s ; <£on)m]>rice.rt;7.flt. Hastings to-day. The entry,iwas.,a.,recoEdnone.' All the stud rams and shear Lincoln »nd ii;drq offered to-day. Other flock "il/iWs r Will.' J tp 1 ' milted to-mornnjf. There' danco of buyers, and satisfactory priceV*crijrealised. Lincoln studs: sold:'np t: to'*32 obtained for a shearling ;brcd"by"-~Mr. .-Wt"', Rayner, Master) on; -82 guiheasi.'.\raa'?fdhUm(l r for a shearling] bred by tlic<iK6«.i>Zeakindvand< Australian Land ~.45 guineas for another- .shearling. Mr t >-T.. .fan-ner's-studs-ao]d up t0..47 Biiinea9,.'ahd,-,Ji{|;y"W,. Terry obtained 48 guineas, .'guibeas.y. 32 guineas, 23 guineas, 27 guinea?,' for; six of his studs. one of Ifr. Bland Rayiier's Lincoln-studtl-m»¥ 27"'guineas. Flock to ll' guineas, Romney.- Marsh docks"sold" up to A guineas, this sum being ...realised-, for ten shearlings bred by Mr. W. E-.-RidwiH, Wairarapa. Romney Miirsh stiuls...biQiight_lir.' to 45 guineas and 32' guineas, both prices being for rams bred by Mr, E. ,T. niddi(ordi-Low.cr,r.Hu(t., Only four Bolder Leicester "studs were'sold," 'these going for 4} guineas.-.iTho!:top..price'foi; Soutbdowns was 14 guineas, for one of Mr. Gcorgo Ilhodes's ranis.,. NiriEK,-'Jeriiiiiry? 3i.'v-' ' The ram fair was continual-■ todays,wlioni flock rainsi Border lislM-eicesters, and Corricdpfepj AUag.es,and: Lincoln and Ropiney flocks, 3-shear, a andj.ov(;ri were offoreil,. Lincolns and.,J3oniii6ys~.iii fliost'i rnstanees brought fair jVribcs,'" .biiit" they.oflisr varieties wero slow,of sale.' Jjnico'lus' brimghtr up to S guineas, which price was paid for 21 3-shear sheep bred by, Mi\ -L)l Sr'.Fleihing.' of Wanstead. -Komnevs .realiSo~d''up" t6'-'-4} r guineas, this being obtained--for 4 shears-lired; by Mr. 13., Eglinton. of Feafhert.son.';/reniJioriler Ticfjcester shearlings bred);hy;fMessrs;-jfol-sou Uros., Ltd., bi-ought 3} jptineas, lop.'privo; for that variety. For Southdowns;puiriea's. was the highest,figure, and this"wiis phfaiiijii'd' for some shearlings bred by' Mr. ueo.' Rhodes, EUesmere, Canterbury. ■ Corriedales sold at '2 guineas, and -English Lcicesters' at half a guinea. ' - rf , 4