Erratic Prices At Sale Of Rabbit Skins

Chronicle (Levin), 17 July 1948, Page 4

Erratic Prices At Sale Of Rabbit Skins

. Another large cataiogue of rabbit skins was submitted by tne Otago Farmers' Co-op at its sale this week. Values showed an easing tendenCy, except for good top grad'es, but prices generaliy were slightly erratic when compared with the last sale. The fblloWing- is- range of prices per 1b.: — Small-, _ to 25d; inferior brok'en, 1# to 3d:; third broken, to 66d-;. second- brbken, to 93d; first brokdn, to'104d; milky, 60d to 109d; summers, 75d to- 78|d; spring bucks, l'14d' to 124#; spring does, 112d to l-l-8d; outg. does, 128d to* 157d; outg. bucks, l-29d' to 147d-; spotty bucks, 14«d to' 170d; spotty does, 152d to 1^8d': winter bucks, 170d to 211d; winter does," 170 to 230d; furfier does, to 220d; racks, to 67d; runnefs-, to' 50d; autumns, to 96d; late autsl and incmgs., to 130d; autumn fatty, to 107d; winter fatty, to 117# ; Wdevilly, to 35d; summer blacks, to- 4'6'd'; autumn blacks, to 60d'; winter bla'ck's, to 96d; summer fawns; to 84#; autumn fawns, vto I39d; . winter fawns, to- 150d; hare skins; lOOd td' 140d'; hair, to 49d; first small ferrets, to 1:4s 11# each; first large ferrets, to 20s each.; goat skins, to-24#per lb.; red Geer skins, ls 4d to 3s:per lb.; fallow deer skins, to 2S 6d per lb. The rteXt sdle is scheduled for July 27 and skins must be in the store by July 20.