Tuesday, June 9. Weekly sale of livestock. Forward: 6 cull cows and 18 calves; 85 prime lambs, 96 prime hoggs, 155 cast ewes and rams and 6 breeding ewes with 10 lambs at foot. Prices. Calves - Bulls: South Devon to £370 each; British Blue 355 (average £315); Simmental 340; Charolais 325; Limousin 285 (252.50); Friesian/Holstein 145 (122.50). Heifers: British Blue 260 (257.50); Limousin 205. Cull cattle: Continental to 127 pence per kilo; Holstein 105. Leading price per head: £781. Prime lambs: Continental 200; Suffolk 192. Overall average: 189.6. Leading price per head £89. Prime hoggs: 178 (average 147.2). Ewes (twin lambs at foot): Texel £166 (£158). (Single lambs at foot): Texel 123. Cast ewes: Horned 76 (56.73); Polled 131 (92.16). Cast rams: Polled 100 (84).
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