MIDDLEMARCH STOCK SALE
The yards at Middlemarch were filled to overflowing yesterday when a heavy entry of 10,500 sheep was submitted to a large circle of buyers. Annual draft and paddock ewes were in the majority, the remainder of the entry containing several lines of lambs and a few wethers. Competition was sound, and all classes (wilh the exception of lambs, which met with a restricted inquiry), sold at good prices. North Otago and Canterbury buyers assisted the market to some extent.
Quotations: Extra pood, fine, crossbred, two-tooth ewes, 38s; good, halfbred, two tooth ewes, 345; small tussock two-tooth ewes, 24s 6d; best annual draft ewes, 25s to 28s; paddock ewes. 15s 6d to 21s; best ewe lambs, 275; medium ewe lambs, 17s to 21s 9d; cull ewe lambs, from 14s; extra good rape lambs, 235; good wether lambs, 18s to 21s; medium wether lambs, 12s lOd to 15s; 'cull wether lambs, from 8s; fat wethers, 36s 9d.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25798, 20 March 1945, Page 2
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