The Sydney Sheep Sales.
Mr Cobb, of Palmerston North, who has been attending the recent Syiuey sheep show and sales, returned by the Waihora last night. He brought back with him the champion ram and two others which he exhibited in Sydney. During .the sales Mr Cobb's sheep topped the market, the highest being 30 guineas for a ram and 15 guineas for a ewe. The extraordinary collapse of the Bales he attributes — firstly to the scarcity of feed ; secondly, to the over supply ; and thirdly, to the fact that in most cases no reserves whatever were put on, and the sales started badly, the auctioneer allowing such sheep to sell for whatever they would bring. This gave the market a bad tone, and subsequently buyers would not exceed their values. The only way to alter that state of things, in Mr Cobbe's opinion, will be for the sellers to come to some arrangement that no sheep shall leave their hands under a certain figure ; then whatever the figure is they are bound to get it. Mr Cobbe's sheep were acknowledged to be amongst the biggestand heaviest that were entered in New South Wales, and he found that sheep which he had previously sent over were much appreciated in that colony for their constitution, being well able to stand the drought. — Times.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 23, 26 July 1895, Page 2
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222The Sydney Sheep Sales. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 23, 26 July 1895, Page 2
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