The Cumberland & Dumfriesshire Farmers Mart P.L.C. had forward
4393 breeding sheep at their special sale on Tuesday 26th September
comprising 2508 ewes, 1249 shearlings, 636 ewe lambs.
All classes
enjoyed the best trade of the season with shearlings selling
to £86 for Texel x from Greenside Lodge & Maxton
House, others £84 Glencartholm, £83 Wardhead. Greyfaces £82
Loch House, £80 Wardhead. Cheviot Mules £81 Maxton
House who also sold North Cheviots at £78. Lleyns £51
Wardhead, Roussin £54 Stackbraes.
Greyface ewe lambs sold
to £58 from Lane Head, others £55
Mains, £52 Hardhurst. Cheviot Mules £43 Side Farm.
2 Shear ewes sold to a top of £68 for Greyface from Maxton
House, others £64
Englishtown, £60 Whitehaugh, Cheviot Mules £62, £60 Wardhead.
Texels £65, £64 Loch House. Suffolk x £58 East Foreshield,
Swaledale £31 Dryevers.
3 Shear ewes to £59 for Greyface Whitehaugh,
Texels £59, £58 Loch House, £54 Stackbraes.
Cheviot Mules £54
Wardhead. Suffolk x £58 East Foreshields, Halfbreds £50
Maxton House, Swaledales £36 Whitehaugh.
Correct ewes to £55
for Texels from Maxton House, £52 Castletown & Southcroft.
Greyfaces £48
Loch House, £43 Whintingstown & Mosside. Cheviot Mules £44
Wardhead, Suffolk x £54 Stackbraes & Haithwaite, Lleyns £40
Stackbraes.
Correct below ewes to £40 for Cheviot Mules
from Nethertofts, Cheviots £38
Barnglies.
Also included in the sale were two dispersals. The
first from Messr Patterson, Loch House, whose top was £84
for Texel shearlings, Greyfaces £82, £76, £75.
One crop Greyface £65, £64 , Texels £65. Two
crop Greyface £59, £58,
3 crop Greyface £48, £47.
The second was from W B
McTaggart, Whitehaugh, Hawick whose top was £60
for 1 crop Greyface ewes. Texels £55, 2 crop Greyface £59,
Texels £50.
3 crop Texels £45, Greyfaces £40, Swaledales £36.
Texel shearlings £54.
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