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The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
3557 store lambs at their weekly sale on Wednesday
13th September 2006 at Longtown.
A good show and plenty
of buyers present saw all classes again in strong demand.
Top £42.50
for Texel x lambs from Glendearg, £41.80
Girnwood. Charollais £37, £36.50 Quarryfield, £35.50
East Foreshield. Suffolks £38.50 Hightown, £37.50
Quarryfield, £37 Loch House. Greyfaces £36.50 Underbank, £34.50
Hole of Lyne, £34.20 Parkhouse. Zwartbles £37 Cooks
House, Cheviot x £38 Bradley.
Also included in the sale
was the annual prize show and sale of Cheviot & Blackface
lambs ably judged by local feeder John P Fisher, Smalmstown who
awarded the following:-
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| 1st Prize Hill Cheviot Lambs from Mrs Lueschar,
Glendinning |
Hill Cheviots
: 1st Mrs L Lueschar, Glendinning
selling at £36.20
2nd John Higgs Farms, Meikledale selling at £35.80
3rd
Messrs Elliott, Clenries selling at £35.50
Hill North
Cheviots:
1st SRE Busby, Unthank selling at £36.50
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| 1st prize Blackface lambs from Messrs Robson,
Townshield |
Blackfaces:
1st Messrs Robson, Townshields selling at £35
2nd Mrs L Lueschar, Sundhope selling at £36.20
3rd Mrs
L Lueschar, Megdale selling at £32.
Trade for hill lambs
was strong mostly up by £3 on the
year.
Other leading prices were as follows: Cheviots £36.80
Setthorns, £36 Cowburn, £35 Commonside.
Blackfaces £35.20
Whintingstown, £30.50 Earlshaugh, £30 Sundhope.
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