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The lop figures in the sale ring are paid for Shropshires, and they still maintain their 

 high character for good mutton. High prices were paid for good rams. Lord Chesham 

 obtained £178 for one; Mr. E. Thomas sold two at £110 and £126; Mr. J. Evans got 115 

 guineasfor one; Mr. J. Beach 110 guineas; and Mr. T. J. Mansell 105 guineas. The Bir- 

 mingham sales were most successful. Mr. C. Kandell gave 100 guineas for one of his lord- 

 ship's shearlings. The ewes at Birmingham also made high figures. The lot sent by Mr. 

 Henry Lovatt, of Bushbnry, Wolverhampton, were run up to 200s. each; and some of 

 Mr. A. S. Berry's flock gold for 210s. each. The lot sent by Mr. J. Pulley, M. P., were 

 sold at high prices for Canada. The highest average for 60 ewes was obtained by Lord 

 Chesham at 150s. , an average which has never been exceeded at Birmingham. The Hat- 

 tons flock, belonging to Mr. J. Beach, sold and let well, and the average for rams was 

 £27 12s, and for ewes £7 14g. lOd. Mr. T. J. Mansell, of Dudmaston, secured 105 

 guineas for his lirst-prize shearling at York, and the average was £24 12s. id. The 

 lamed Ufiington flock of Mr. John Evans averaged £30 6s. 2d. for 37 shearling rams, and 

 a little over £10 for ewes. At the annual sale of Messrs. Crane and Tanner, of Shra- 

 wardine. Lord Chancellor was sold at 65 guineas; and Royal Consort let at 75 guineas. 

 The average was £19 14s. lOrf. One lotoffivcshearlingeweswas bought by Mr. Darling 

 at 16 guineas per head. Mr. Charles Byrd never penn^ a better lot than those he offered 

 at Littywood. The 34 averaged a little under 8J guineas a head. The selection of 

 rams and ewes from ;the Montford flock, the property of Mr. T. S. Minton, averaged 

 for the rams let and sold £22 3s. Od. The ewes, for which this flock is so famous, aver- 

 aged £9 14s. each. Mr. Thomas Mansell's Harrington rams sold well. One was let to 

 Mr. Farmer at 85 guineas. A two-shear ram. Baron Plassy, was sold to Mr. J. L. Naper 

 at 86 guineas. The average of the rams was £24 18s. 9d. , and the ewes averaged £6 lis. 

 ,9d. Mr. Robert Fisher's rams (Leconfield, Beverley) averaged a little over £11 2s. The 

 average obtained for the Onibury flock of Mr. F. Bach was £10 12s. lOd. The flock belong- 

 ing to the late Mr. George W. Langdale, of Leconfield Park House, near Beverley, was 

 disposed of, the rams making an average of £7 5s., the ewes fetching prices up to 87s. each. 

 The Beaumontcote rams, the property of Mr. William Hesseltine, made an average of 

 nearly 12 guineas. The highestprice was 31 guineas. At Beaudesert 35 rams, the prop- 

 erly of Mr. John Darling, realized an average of £9 14s. 6d.; the ewes (a splendid show) 

 £5 15s. For the ewes the highest prices realized were 1558. and 160s. each. Mrs. l!airs,'s 

 rams at Odstone Hall made fair prices, and the ewes sold at 160s. osfch. Mr. iiicliard 

 Thomas, of Baschurch, got an average for rams sold and let of £28 7«. each, and ewes 

 rather over 9J guineas each. For shearling ewes, in pens of five, the Hon. G. Smith 

 gave £126, and a Canadian gentleman paid £110 Ss. for another lot. Mr. J. L. Naper, 

 of Loughcrew, had a good sale. Mrs. Barrs, Odstone Hall, Atherstone, got the gem of 

 the shearlings at 120 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a ram in Ireland. The 30 

 rams averaged £18 6s. At Mr. Thomas Fenn's Home Farm, Downtou Castle, the 

 highest priced shearling ram was bought by Mr. J. C. Phillips at 35 guineas. The old- 

 established Haughton flock was dispersed on account of the decease of the proprietor, 

 Mr. Charles Wadlow. The ram Bridgnorth was knocked down at 30 guineas. The 23 

 rains sold averaged £1 1 9». 7d. each. Mr. J. E. Farmer sold a lot of rams and ewes. The 

 shearling rams ranged from 7 to 23 guineas, the latter being the highest price,, and paid by 

 Earl Powis. The ewes fetched fair prices. During the season Colonel Eidgway was a 

 good buyer, and turned up at several sales, and what is more, selected good stuff and 

 gave stiff prices. Good stock were sold, and their value was realized. Indeed, all 

 round the Shropshire sales of 1883 will compare favorably with those of previous seasons. 



CHEVIOTS. 



The lithe and handsome Cheviots were in great force at the Lothian and Border sales. 

 The Cheviots showed a gteat increase in number on last year. At the autumn sale at 

 Hawick upwards of 1,300 rams were catalogued, being nearly 500 more than last year. 

 The bulk were Cheviots. Mr. Eobson, Bellinghaip, sold a Cheviot ram for £55, and an- 

 other was sold for £45. The average was £13 19.t. In a few instances the average prices 

 of last year were overtopped. The highest price obtained for the Hindhope rams was 

 £51; at Edinburgh there was some crack lots, and the animals were shown to the best 

 advantage. In several cases they realized the highest average, £9 63. 4d., and they 

 likewise topped their class, Mr. Paterson, Crookedston, giving £25 for a handsome 

 shearling. 



THE BLACK-FACED SUFFOLK.* 



These are rapidly coming into favor in East Anglia. This breed differs to some ex- 

 tent from the Scotch Blackfaces. The Suffolks are proper niggers, so far as face and legs 



* Firat described in August, 1883, by H. Eains Jackson, in "The Field," but here 

 unacknowledged. 



