SHEEPSKIN VALUES
As is the Australian custom, the values of skins on fat sheep sold is always taken account of. At the Newmarket sales at Melbourne in early August, those for crossbred sheep were rated as follows :— Lambs, woolly, 2/6 to 5/-. .Wethers, 10/io 12/- on average, and with one line to 14/-. Thus for woolly skins. Pelts, wethers 1/- to 2/6, and lambs 1/- ’to 1/6 each. It was earlier noted that the Australian Central Wool Committee had in late June increased the table of values for pelts to an extent that added 3d. a skin on to all skins other than damaged. Presumably New Zealand values must be much in line and so it can be seen that woeijy fat wethers sold at 35/- are carrying a good deal of that value on their backs, rather than in their carcases. In the case of ewes at around 29/- there is an even bigger percentage of their worth in the skim
(Poultry Notes on Page «.)
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 284, 29 August 1942, Page 9
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166SHEEPSKIN VALUES Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 284, 29 August 1942, Page 9
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