STOCK AND STATIONS.
Since our last report the weather has been fairly favorable for harvest operations, which are now in full swing in all parts of tho Province, and should we be favored with a continuance of fine weather, we may fairly expect the bulk of the crops will be saved in the course of another fortnight
Now that the harvest is well forward oar fanners are better able to judge, of the probable yeild of their crops, and reports generally are moro favorable than was anticipated.
At Aldington on 4535 sheep and l.vaibs, 320 cattle, 74 pigs were yarded for the week.
Fat Sheep were in short supply, and brisk demand. They met with a ready -iilft at an advance on last weeks prices of ■v tin Is to Is3d per head.
rat L:;iiibs were in over supply, and ::..-.-vifly dull of sale, many lines passed ; ::;;>1(1. Bsst lambs made 8s 6d, in- -•■ : -<..: 4- 6d. ?at cattle were in excess of demand, ; . hI consequently a reduction in prices had ;r. Do submitted to to effect sales. Wβ ••.>:■.'-,?>-> beef at for best quality, 23s to 255; '. Vrior, 21a to 235. •Corr:j. i» forward condition are still in .'....:-:.' i. Old cows and backward young .■>:..•: -JL ;lall of sale. .'lessrs "Wilkin and Co. report;— Wool— r.' :ti!i collecting slow!}- for our third sale •'.> be held on Tuesday, Feb. 11.
she-p-skins. —Our catalogue consisted of r>l skins. There was a fair attendance and lor shorn skins there was a : • '.ojujj.itition, but woolly skins were • ':. oked at. Cross-bred, 2s 4d to 4s 3d; :;.. -.-._!. >-.;! ai)d interior, Is 6d to 2s 4d :.:'.'. Marine, 2h 3d to 4sld ; ditto, small ■■• 'r.ffrior, Is 4d to 2s 3d each. Pelts, .o Iβ in each. Lambskins, 8d to Is 5d
■'~.\\':ow. —There was only a limited at-'.-■•■.:,h T :, r buyers, and dull bidding. . :.n. v.-cli saved, l£d to %{d per Jb ; -•■. : •..;-.-.:i]ity, l£d to ]|d per U> ; inferior .-, ; ;.iM(I. Id to ljdperlb. . . arc .-still in request. Salted, 3|d ■ ; -: 5 ■.ia:v..iyed, 2£d per lb ; calfskins,
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 266, 4 February 1879, Page 2
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334STOCK AND STATIONS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 266, 4 February 1879, Page 2
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