Price of Sheep.
Kooent sales show that tha value of iheep in England is keeping up. At the annual lamb sale at Diss, when between sis and seven thousand half-bred blaok-faoed and Southdown lambs and ewes were offered, prices for lambs ranged up to 62s Gd, from Mr E. Mann's, the general range being from 80s to 88s for lambs, of good quality; ewes made up .to 59s 6d, At Mr G. Blencowe's sale at Newmarket, there were BSOO lambs offered, Southdown lambs from the flock of the Jockey Club were first soli The first forty pure Southdown selected wether lambs fetched 81s 6s 1 per head, The next forty sold'at 295, and thirty more at 26s per head. The first fifty ewes ditto realised 31s Bd, fifty more~B3s> Od, and another fifty 26s Gd "pei head. Suffolk lambs made up to 51s Gd, this price being given for a pen belonging to Messrs Slater, Cheveley ana Hall, She ewes made up to GBs,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 8615, 16 September 1890, Page 2
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164Price of Sheep. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 8615, 16 September 1890, Page 2
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