EGG MARKET REPORT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2648, 20 December 1915, Page 8

EGG MARKET REPORT

Tho Now Zealand Poultry Industries

report that the wholesale prico of eggs has advanced one penny, M Is. 6d. per ; dozen, as from'to-day. Supplies are : large, but as usual at this season there i:: a keen demand, and every orato.com- . ing forward is readily sold. | There has been a great demand for the • celebrated Victor. cheese vat during the j past few months; anyone requiring new j vats are urged to write immediately to i 6hort. Albert J. Parton, Carterton.—Advt. j the maker, as material - is extremely 1 short. Albert J. Parton/ Carterton.—Advt. { Never has the demand.for'clear-headed ; constructive thinking: in Business been ] so urgent as it is right now. We|are liv- { ing in a progressive age, and must take advantage of all. up-to-date methods.. Itis in savings from waste of any description. that money is made to-day, and by < concentrating one's efforts on all details < of our business we claim to be able to J produce results for our many cream sup- j pliers. We want more cream. Can you L supply us? Further particulars, Wanga- ] Bui Fresh Food Co.—Advt. I : < LIVE STOCK SALES j ' Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston ! North, report having a fair yarding o£ } stock at their Feilding sale on Friday, which cold as below Two-year heifeTs, to £5; light fat cows, to £7 75.; fat heifers, to £11 55.; fat bulloclis, to £14 10s. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report on their Daunevirke. sale, held on Friday, as ioliowsWe offered'a medium entry of sheep ani a small yarding of cattle. In Vncep there was a particularly keen demand. especially for good-conditioned -wetli:rs, and we made a total clearance at "rices in.'advance of. recent-sales' rates. iVe quote: Mixed-sex two-tooth medium, Ks. Id.; forward condition two-tooth wethers, 215., 225., : 225. .5d.; two-tooth ewes, to Ks. M.; aged ewes with lambs, 20s. 2d. Cattle were aleo in good demand, especially forward condition cows, and we disposed of. the bulk of our entry at,the folIwing- prices i—Small yearling steers, £3 165.; two-year heifers,' empty, £4 4s. to £5: store cows, £4 18s., £5. to £6; forward condition cows, £7 to £8; fat cows, £8 17s. 6d.. £9, to £11 2s. 6d. The N.Z. Loan and. Mercantile Agency

Co. reports as follows:—At Eaiimai on Tuesday a small entry tame forward ami sold at late rates. Fifteen-months steers. £4 13s. 6d.; liftecn-montlis heifers. £2 Bs. to £2 155.: heiicrs in caif. .£4 Is.; empty heifers, iM ss. 6c1.; forward cows. £5 145.; light fat cows. .£7 Bs. to £8 6s. 6d.; licavy fat cows, £12 75.; Jersey bull, £3- 15s. At Eangiwfthia on Tuesday a fail' entry of elicop and a. small yarding of cattle met with a. ready stile. Small two-tooths, 15s. to 16s. 6d.; two-tooth wethers, ISte. sd. to 18s. 6d., and up to 225. 6<l. for a. good line of early shorn pond condition wethers. Yearling heifers, £2 35.; fifteen-months heifers, £3 Is. .At Fcilding on Friday wo had a good entry of cattle, and although bidding wa6 dull we were successful in placing the whole of our entry at very satisfactory prices. Yearling heifers, £2; fif-teen-mouths steers, £3 55.; licifers in calf, £4; cows in caif, £4 10s.; empty heifers, £5 Us-.-; forward cows, £5 7c. 6d.. to £6 17e. 6d.; light fat cows, £7 10s. to £8 2s. 6(1.; ■ cows with calves at foot, £7 2s. od.; rough two. and a half-year steers (Jersey), £4 19s. 6d.; two-year steers, £6 10s.; two and a half and three-year steers, £8 10s. to £8 las., and up to £9 95.; young bulls. £2 ss. to £4 10s.; heavy bulls, £8 to £9 17s. 6d.