KIRKBY STEPHEN. - Wed of last week. - Fwd: 3,462 ewes & hoggs with lambs, gimmer hoggs & cast sheep for New Fair sale. Av up £5.43 on year.

Prices, ewes: - Texel X & singles £44 Stoneywood; Suff X & twins £38 Birks Head; Rough Fell & twins £22.50 Kilnmire; Blue-faced Leics & twins £19 Elm Pot. Swale & singles: £53 High Street (Frith); £45 Stonecrest. With twins: £40 High Street (Frith); £39 Hill House. With triplets £38 High Street (Frith). Mule & singles £40 Greenriggs. With twins £36 Lythside. Mule shlgs & singles: £51 Oak Bank; £49 Greenriggs. With twins: £48 Oak Bank; £47 Greenriggs; £45 Blandswath. Mule hoggs & singles: £67 Clickham, £65 Blandswath. Swale gimmer hoggs: £85 Starrah; £50 Low Whiton; £49 Ottercops. Mule gimmer hoggs: £74 Bells View; £72 Ottercops, Bents, Low Whita.

Mon. - Fwd: 317 beef cows with calves at foot, incalf hfrs & store cattle Appleby New Fair sale.

Prices, all crosses. - Lim cows & bull calves: £1,010, £940, £890, £850(2), £820, £800(2) Low Rutter; £900, £840(2) Hewgill House; £750 Whitewall. With hfr calves: £760 Sandford Hall; £820, £740 Low Rutter. Lim hfrs & bull calves: £870, £840 High Laning Farm; £820 Hall Close. With hfr calves: £750, £670 Sandford Hall; £600 Cornfield House. Lim hfrs incalf £540, £520(4) Low Rutter. Lim hfrs: £550(2), £545(2), £542(2) Clockeld; £572, £445(x3), £430(3) Eden Flatt; £425 Coach & Horses. Herefd cow & bull calf £790 Low Rutter. BA hfr & hfr calf £770 Sandford Hall. BA hfrs: £490, £450(2)Yore House; £465, £450 Eden Flatt. BB incalf: £600(2), £580 Low Rutter. BB hfrs: £595 Lytheside; £520(2), £480 Eden Flatt; £515 Bents Farm; £440 Home Farm. Simm cow & bull calf £780 Low Rutter. With hfr calf £560 Low Rutter. Simm hfr £405 Eden Flatt. Saler hfrs & bull calf: £660, £640 Heights Farm. AA hfrs £462 Eden Flatt. Lim feeding bulls: £545 Ashgarth; £420 Gategarth. Lim bullocks: £555, £548 Wetheriggs; £530(2) Eden Flatt; £508(2), £500 Smardale Hall; £498 West Briscoe. Char bullocks: £545 Wetheriggs; £518 Asby Hall. BA bullocks £532 Yore House. Simm bullocks: £485 Cranberry; £480(4), £465(8) Tullock Farm. AA bullocks £505 Eden Flatt. Fries bullocks £435 Eden Flatt.

PENRITH. - Thurs of last week. Fwd: 678 breeding store cattle for New Fair sale. Judge: A Bindloss, High Buildings, Shap.

Prizes. - Hfr with Calf: 1 Holliday, Langwathby, £910 to Bindloss, Shap Abbey; 2 SJ Towler, Kendal, £1,200 to Bindloss. Cow with calf: 1 MW Bousfield, Widewath, £840 to Foster; 2 D Potter, Ulcatrow, £640 to Mulgrew. Incalf cow or hfr: 1 CJ Bousfield, Langrigg, £660 to Bindloss; 2 MW Bousfield £400 to SW&V Bowness. Bulling hfr: 1&2 BDS Berry & Son, Dallan Bank, £660, £535 to D Barker.

Prices. - Lim X hfrs & calves: £1,320, £910, £880, £860 Town End (Sayer); £1,200, £1,020, £1,000 Birds Park; £910, £850 Town Head (Holliday); £880 New Hall (Skelton). Cows & bull calves: £820, £750 Sandford Hall; £820 Hewgill House ; £810 Roseleigh; £720 Melmerby Mill. BBX hfrs & calves: £1360, £1050 Low Row; £840, £800 Shire Hall; £820 Newbiggin House. Cows & hfr calves: £840 Widewath; £770(2) Roseleigh; £690 Maxton House; £690, £600 Seat Farm; £620(2) Sandford Hall. Simm X hfrs & calves: £630 Newbiggin House. Lim X bulling hfrs: £660, £535, £520 Dallan Bank; £590 Melmerby Mill. Calving cows & hfrs: £660 Langrigg; £550, £520 Cypress Way. BBX bulling hfrs: £640, £560 Windy Hill; £580 Woodfoot (Bousfield); £575, £570 Cliburn Hall.

Store bullocks. - Lim X: £610, £600 Dallan Bank; £578 Cliburn Hall; £557 Ousby (Town Head); £535(2) Seat Farm; £510 Gate Ghyll. Herefd X: £542 Helbeck Grange. BBX: £628, £590, £565 Cliburn Hall; £515 Helbeck Grange. Char X: £610, £570 Dallan Bank; £568 Tod Bank; £528 Helbeck Grange. BAX: £515, £468 Swindale. Simm X: £520 Green Farm. Baz X: £535, £525 Raw Foot. Fries: £432 Helbeck Grange. Hfrs. - BBX: £450 Cliburn Hall. Lim X: £498 Woodfoot (Bousfield); £495, £490 Seat Farm; £445 Cliburn Hall, Skelling; £480, £475 The Row; £460(4) Dallan Bank; £442 Helbeck Grange; £442 Gate Ghyll. Char X: £480, £475 The Row; £460 (4) Dallan Bank. BAX: £420 Swindale; £398 Town Head, Raisbeck (Bainbridge).