Tuesday, May 19. Weekly sale of sheep. Forward: 1,210 prime hoggs, 578 cast ewes and rams and 213 spring lambs. Prices - Prime lambs: Rouge de l'Ouest to £116.80 each, or 278.1 pence per kilo; Beltex 109.80, 262.9; Dutch Texel 95.80, 223.9; Texel 95.80, 219; Charollais 88.30. Prime hoggs: Suffolk 130; Charollais 116.80; Texel 108.80; Beltex 107.80; Mule 97.80; Rough Fell 88.80; Swaledale 85.80; Blackface 84.80; Herdwick 76.80; Jacob 63.80. Cast ewes: Texel 134.50; Suffolk 124.50; Beltex 122.50; Blueface Leicester 106.50; Cheviot 106.50; Masham 106.30; Mule 98.50; Swaledale 85.50. Cast rams: Blueface Leicester 158.50; Texel 142.50; Suffolk 132.50; Cheviot 108.50; Swaledale 85.50.
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