At Lockerbie Market on Monday, Harrison & Hetherington Ltd held there weekly sale of 832 Prime & cast ewes and 43 cast cows.

Cast Cows: A very good show of 43 cast cows were forward and remained a very good trade for the large show forward. Top price was £875 for an Aberdeen Angus cow from the Barony College. Messrs Kenyon, New Farm, sold an Aberdeen Angus bull to £830 – 128ppk. Other cast cows from Messrs Halliday, Crawthat sold to £800 for a fantastic Limousin. Holstein Friesian from Barony College sold to £775 and £760. Feeding cows were again best to sell.

Leading prices: Aberdeen Angus £875 Barony College, Limousin £800, £655 Crawthat, Holstein Friesian £775, £760, £690 Barony College, £760, £722 Girthhead, £655 East Bowhill, Aberdeen Angus Bull £830 New Farm.

Prime Sheep:- A larger show of 832 Prime hoggs and cast sheep were forward and sold to a similar trade as last week with an overall average of 191ppk. A good quality show was forward this was shown in the overall sale trade. Top price came from Messrs Bell, Hoddamtown with a texel cross hogg selling to £92.50 whilst top price per kilo came from D & D Aitken, Uppercleugh with a pen of Beltex x selling to 228.9 ppk.

Price per kilo:- Beltex 228.9, 204.6, 204.5, 201.3 Uppercleugh, 219, 212 Glenmaid, 210.5 Carruthers Farm, 203.1 Slodahill, 196.3 Dalmakether, Texel 211.5, 204.3 Blackwood Ridgehouse, 200 (x2) The Bloch, 192 Thorns Farm, Cheviot 202.4 Robgill Mains, 201.2 Bengall, 198.8 Muirhouse, 196.3 Carruthers Farm, Blue Faced Leicester 192 South Corrielaw, Suffolk 189.5 South Corrielaw, Lleyn 189.5 Dalmakether

Price per head:- Texel £92.50, £83.50 The Bloch, £83.40 Thorns Farm, £82.80 Slodahill, £82.50 Blackwood Ridge House, Beltex £90, £89, £87 Uppercleugh, £86.50 Glenmaid, £80.50 Dalmakether, Cheviot £89.5 Dalmakether, £88.50, £86.50, £85.50 Bengall, £83 Robgill Mains, £81.50 Muirhouse, Blue faced Leicester £84.50 South Corrielaw, Suffolk £83.50 South Corrielaw, Lleyn £83.20 Dalmakether

Cast Ewes: Cast ewes sold to £120 for a Suffolk ewe from Messrs Nichol, Lawston, Newcastleton, whilst texels sold to £116.50 and £113.5 twice from Messrs Black, Craighouse. Leaner types sold dearest by far. Many more could have been sold.