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The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
7,056 store lambs (including 2,737 Cheviots) and 4,797 breeding
sheep at Longtown on Tuesday 15th October
2013.
 With
a packed ring of both local and distant buyers, all classes of
store lambs met an exceptional trade with the dearest trade seen
so far.
Top of £76 for Beltex lambs from Sharplaw Farms and £73.50
Maxton House; Charollais £75 Maxton House; Texel £73.50
Winshield, £73 Coatlith Hill, £70 Shoestanes; Rouge £72.50
Haithwaite; Suffolk £69.50 Borthwick Mains, £65.50
Routin Lynn and Scarlett Hall, £65 Bondgate Close; Roussin £67.50
Crooked Holme Barn; Dutch Texel £67.50 Greenside; Blackface £64
Horseholme, £58.50 Town Shields, £58 High Green Manor
and Lamperts; Greyface £60 Lowthwaite, £56.50 Castlefairn, £56
East Stobbylea; Cheviot Mule £60 Meiklewhitriggs; Zwartbles £51
Winshield; Swaledale £45 Rotherhope, £40 Laverhay.
Cast
ewes to £47 Lamberton and East Stobbylea, cast rams £49.50
East Stobbylea.
Tup lambs to £66.50 Routin Lynn, £63
Allensgreen, £62
Balmurrie.
A good show of 2,737 Cheviot lambs also met the best
trade of the season with several pens over £60. Hill Cheviots
to a top of £65 from Hartsgarth, others £64.50 Lymiecleugh, £62.50
Skelfhill, £61 Cossar Hill and Windyhaugh; Hill Northies £67.50
Pokerkine, others £65.50 Whiteknowe, £63.50 East Murton, £61
Kelsocleugh and Sorbietrees.
A tremendous show of 4,797 breeding sheep of all
classes and ages, including the Second Main Sale for Hill Ewes
saw a full ring of buyers bid keenly for most categories apart
from older leaner Blackface ewes which were no more than killing
price. Lowland sheep were keenly sought after and short of requirements.
Also held were the part dispersal on behalf of Messrs Weightman,
Rosgill Hall and a reduction on behalf of Messrs Taylor, Hopestead.
The
sale was topped at £152 for a pen of Scotch Mule Shearlings
from Messrs Sinclair, Shielsknowe, whose run of 83 shearlings averaged £144.77.
Principal
prices:-
Ewes – North Country Cheviot £94 (2 crop) Whitefield, £75, £70, £68
(4 crop) Humbleheugh, £60 Whitefield and Dod Farm; Greyface £92
(2 crop) Fellview, £78 Tiverton, £76 (2 crop) Haithwaite, £74
(2 crop) Fellview; Texel £85 (1crop) Branxholm Braes, £78
(2 & 3 crop) Linton House, £74 (3 crop) Damhead; Blueface
Leicester £78 Kelsocleugh; Cheviot Mule £75 Gilmanscleugh
and Priesthaugh, £72 Branxholm Braes; Blackface £68
(5 year old) Earlshaugh, £54 (2 crop) Pow Croft, £52
(2 crop) Earlshaugh, £50 (6 year old) Penchrise; Hill Cheviot £58
Wardlaw, Arkleton and Linton House, £57 Unthank, £54
Lymiecleugh, Sorbie and Cossar Hill; Swaledale £50 Woodside, £44, £42
Coldshield, £42 Middleshield.
Shearlings – Greyface £152, £150, £140, £136
Shielsknowe, £118 Haithwaite and Tiverton, £112 Tiverton, £110
Kilncroft; Texel £132, £100 North Deanhead, £98, £90
Flex; Suffolk £128 Flex; Cheviot Mule £112 Tiverton;
Bluefaced Leicester £84, £78 Kelsocleugh; Swaledale £74
Woodside, £70 Cottage; Blackface £68 South Glen, £64
Longburgh Fauld, £60 Skelfhill, Powcroft and Birchwood Hall;
North Country Cheviot £60 Cottage.
Ewe lambs – Greyface £92
Tecket, £66 Butterdales
and Broadhaugh; North Country Cheviot £66 Whitefield, £50
Birneyknowe; Blackface £56 Gall Farm, £50 Ralston Side;
Texel £56 Winshield; Hill Cheviot £46 Glendinning, £42
Earlshaugh.
Rosgill Hall Dispersal – Suffolks £88 (2
shear), £78, £76, £74
(3 Shear), £74 (shearlings); Texels £88, £84, £82
(2 shear), £78, £76, £74 (3 shear); Greyface £76
(2 shear), £70 (3 shear), £68 (4 shear).
Hopestead Reduction – Suffolks
(1-3 crop mixed) £86, £85;
Greyface (1-3 crop mixed) £60; Texel (1-3 crop mixed) £71.
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