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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 11 2004 Clean cattle were well short of numbers with trade for all classes dearer by 3p. Top price of 123.5p paid buy M.J. Wharton (Butcher), Wigton for a Limousin bullock from D.J. Garthwaite & Son, Wyseby Hill Cottage, other Limousins 116.5p Houghton House to Wm. Kirkup (Butcher), Longtown, 114.5p The Gill & Faulding Cleugh, 112.5p The Gill & Faulding Cleugh, 111.5p Wyseby Hill Cottage & The Gill, 110.5p Sceughdyke & Houghton House. Charolais bullocks to 114.5p The Gill and Faulding Cleugh to Woodhead Bros and M.J. Wharton. Top price in the heifer section was 118.5p and 115.5p for Belgian Blues from J. & N. Blaylock & Son, Hallburn both to Wm. Kirkup, Longtown, 113.5p Hallburn to Rose County Foods, Clitheroe. Limousin heifers from A. Ritchie, Stormont sold to 117.5p to Woodhead Bros, 114.5p South Lambhill and Sceughdyke to Wm. Kirkup and M.J. Wharton, 111.5p Sceughdyke. Blonde d'Aquitaine heifers 116.5p Hallburn. A good show of bulls sold to 103.5p for Limousins from Randalinton and Fawcettlees. Friesians to 93.5p Harelawhole and Simmentals 99.5p Distillery. A better quality show of 5,552 prime hoggs were again sharper on the week, peaking at £70 per head for Texels from Crawsknowe. Handyweights and butchers type lambs met a superb enquiry peaking at 187.1p per kilo (£65.50) for a pen of smart 35 kilo Beltex's from Inglewood Edge. Beltex £67.50 Threepwood; Suffolk £67.50 Mossburnford; Texel £66.50 Smalmstown; Bleu d'Maine £66 Sceughdyke; Charollais £64 South Lambhill; North Cheviot £62 Adderston Shiels; Greyface £61 Dryarch; Hill Cheviot £58.20 Singlie; Cheviot Mule £57.50 Pingle; Blackface £57.20 East Mains; Leicester £56.50 Minsca; Swaledale £55 Eycott and Randelholme; Gritstone £52 South Lambhill. The 920 lightweight euro hoggs peaked at £48 and £47.80 for Suffolks from Lighthouse Farm, Orkney. Texel £47.80 Lighthouse; Blackface £47.50 Fineview; Cheviot cross £46.80 Dunain Mains; Hill Cheviot £45.80 Granton; North Cheviot £45 Upper Brydekirk; Swaledale £44.50 Netherton; Greyface £43.50 Stybeck. The 3,327 cast ewes and rams were another good entry and with the usual buyers operating, all classes were dearer on the week with an overall average of £43.50 per head. Top of £73.50 for heavy Charollais and Half Bred ewes from Ballyrobert and Whitrigg Hall; Texel £72.50 East Mains and Dunjop; Suffolk £70.50 Moor; North Cheviot £69.50 Redbanks; Suffolk cross £68.50 Waterloo; Leicester £65.50 Foulshiels; Beltex £63.50 East Mains; Greyface £61.50 East Mains and Crookston; Wensleydale £57.50 Moor; Cheviot Mule £55.50 Whitchester. Hill ewes to £52.50 for Jacobs from Borthwickshiels; Cheviot £49.50 Crockhill, £46.50 Shap Abbey and Pingle; Blackface £47.50 Moor, £46.50 Crookston; Lonk £44.50 Dairy; Swaledale £38.50 Sykehead. Rams to £78.50 for Texels from Mossburnford; Charollais £77.50 Whitehead Hill; Leicester £70.50 Moor; North Cheviot £65.50 Threepwood; Leicester £63.50 Light House; Suffolk £59.50 Mossburnford; Beltex £59.50 Dunjop; Ryeland £54.50 Mossburnford; Hill Cheviot £49.50 Dodd; Blackface £47.50 Peela Hill and Caberston. |