SOUND SALE WITH FREE BIDDING.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 12

SOUND SALE WITH FREE BIDDING.

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report a light entry of all classes of fat sheep. Competition being food, higher prices ruled. Store lambs were penned in large numbers, mostly good local lines of outstanding quality. A very large attendance followed this sale to the end, bidding freely. It was a sound sale for all grades of lambs, particularly ewe lambs, which brought high prices considering the size. Several lines of breeding ewes were offered, mostly of uncertain age, but these sold well, as also the odd pens of wethers. With active competition throughout there was a total clearance. Beef offered comprised dairy sorts only, the market remained unchanged from last week. Store cattle were not in heavy supply, but the demand was good and satisfactory prices were received. Quotations: — Fat wethers, 245; fat lambs, 19s lOd, 21s; fat ewes, 15s, 15s 6d, 17s 6d; sh. w.f. wether lambs, 16s Id, 16s 10d, 17s 4d, 17s Bd, 18s; small to medium lambs, 13s, 13s lOd, 14s Id, 15s 4d: sh. b.f. lambs, 16s Id, 17s; cull lambs, 7s 9d, 11s 10d, 12s, 12s 6d; ewe lambs, 20s, 20s 3d, 20s 6d, 21s 6d, 21s 7d; 3-yr. bullocks, £7 6s; empty low condition col. cows, £2 10s; store cows, Jersey sorts, 30s to £2 ss; fat cows, dairy sorts, £2 10s, £2 15s, £3, £3 15s, to £4 10s; bulls, £3 to £4 12s 6d.