SYDNEY SHEEP SALE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 114, 5 July 1911, Page 5

SYDNEY SHEEP SALE.

Sydney, July 4. At the sheep sales the demand for good quality was well sustained; faulties dragged. Tim sales included: — English Leicester's. —On account of J. Nixon, Canterbury, seven rams Signs to 6gns, seven owes Signs, to 4gns. •r. ( .)•. ■ ■ Lincolns-.—On account of G. T. Barriball, Auckland, two rams, 6gns. to 9gns; Douthwaithe, Fordell, two rams 17gns, one ISgns; S. E. Barriball, Auckland, four rains, Sgns to Signs., two ewes 3gns to Signs.; G. Sutton, Waihi, six rams, 4-igns to 7 gns; Witholl, Canterbury, ten rams Signs to 8 gns; W. Anderson, Ashburton, eight rams 4Jgns to ogns. Corriedalos. —On account of Ensor, Raugiora, rams, Igns and 25gns (Lie latter to a New Zealand buyer); Anderson, Ashburton, ram ogns. Border Leicester^.—On account of Nixon, Canterbury, fifteen rams Signs to -4gns ; Rennie, Canteroury, 60 rams Signs, 38 owes Signs; Grant, Tim am ,*3B rams Signs; Grant. Winchester, IS rams Sijgns to SJgns; Douthwaithe, Waimate, 41 ram hoggets 33gns to 4gns. Lincoln. —Lockhead, 20 rams Signs. (Received 5, 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, July 5. In the merino section the top price was 700 guineas for Haddonrig rams. Two others of the same lot made 3UU and 380 guineas. The Tasmanian ram Pasha ill. brought 422, and New South Wales rams 310 and 400 guineas. British Breeds.—Border Leicesters, on account of John Boag, five ewes, 2 gns. each; twenty Hock rains, 3 to Signs. On account of J. .13. Reid, thirty-nine flock rams, Signs; nineteen owes, 2|gns to gns. On account of u. Henderson, fourteen ram hoggets, Sgns. Romney Marsh —I). Grant, ten flock rams, 4igns; J. Dowthwaits, live stud rams, English Leicesters.- —Flock rams and ewes, J. B. Reid, IGifgns; J. Boag twenty-nine at 23 to Signs; i). Grant, twenty-five at 3;} to 4gas; J. Sowden, twenty-four at 3i to If-giis; J). Grant, eighteen at 3,' r to Signs; R. B. Jeff, twenty-live at 21-gns; W. Nixon, 105 at 31 to ligns; J. Nixon, seventeen at Signs; C. Throlked, forty at 2 to Igns; J. Andrew, fifty at Signs. Lincoln Flock Rams and Ewes, —W. Hocking, nineteen at 2;f to Sgns; 0. Barriball, twelve at Sj Lo 4 gns; J. Nixon, ten at Signs; J. B. Reid, 155 at 2i to Signs; E. Barriball, sixtyfive at 3 to 4.Vgns; A. VVitbell, fifty at 3 to 4-igns; J. Sutton, sixteen at Si to 4gns; W. Anderson, eighteen at 4 igns. Lincolns.—On account of J. Sutton, forty-eight rams and owes, 3 to llgns; W. Withell, ninety ewes and rams, 3 to 4gns. 1