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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 231, 5 February 1910, Page 5

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Qhavqio Sheep Fair. The Farmers' Auctioneering Co., Ltd., report: — On Wednesday la it, 2nd inst., we held our first sheep fair of the season when we penned 22,124 sheep, comprising 4837 lambs, 5262 2-tooth ewes, 1032 wethers, and 10,993 ewes, ranging in age from 4-tooth to aged. The weather conditions were very favourable, the rain the day and night before kept the dust down and made it comfortable to draft and yard sheep; and on day of sale there wa3 sufficient sun to open out the wool and show the sheep to advantage. There was a large attendance of farmers prepared to do business, and prices really good, every lamb and wether was sold and most of the ewes. A few lines of the latter were passed and this was simply because owners were not willing to accept a reasonable price; without question prices were fuliy up to expectation?!. Forward woolly lambs made from 7s to 8s sd; fat woolly lambs, 8s lOd to 9s 6d, one pen making 10s 6d; forward shorn lambs, 6s 6d to 8s; smaller sorts (shorn and woolly), 5s Gd to 6s 3d; best fat wethers, 12s to 14s sd; good 2-tooth wethers, 10s to lis 6d; the 2-tooth Rcmney ewes bred by Ernest Short, of Feilding, made up to 20s; good 2-tooth ewes. 14s 6d to 16s sd; fair 2-tooth ewes, 13s to 14s; 4-year-old ewes, 12s to 13s sd; 4 and 6-toolh ewes of a good class, 13s 6d to 15s; 4 and 5-year-old ewes (mixed), 9s 6d to 10s 6d; aged and failing mouths, 6s Gd to Ss 6d.