BURNSIDE MARKET

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 81, 29 December 1917, Page 11

BURNSIDE MARKET

By Telegraph-Press. Association'. Dunedinj December 28. . < At the Burnside markots 60 fst tattle wore penned, realising prices the same as last week. The best bullocks averaged from £18 10s. to £22; medium jto good, £17 to £18; light, £15:' to £16' IDs. ■■; : best heifers, £16 10s.; good, •£li to £15 10s.; others, £11 to£l3 ss. Sheep.—One thousand one hundred find fifty-three sheep were penned to a dragging sale. A. few pens of good sheep realised fair prices, the values generally averaging 11s. below last week's rates. Best wethers, 38s. 6d. 'to 40s. 9d:; medium to good, 3is. 6d. ito 375.; best owes, 365. to 38s. 6d. ; toedium to good, 325. 6d. to 355.; others, 28s. to 31s. Lambs—Six hundred and seventy-two lambs were penned. _ The market was lover-supplied, and prices declined from '4s. to ss. from-last week's high rates. ißest' lambs, from 28s. to 325. 6d.; iriedium to good, 235. 6d/' to 275.; tothers, 19s. to 225. . ■•; .

.'.' Mr. Q .Charteris, Mangatoro, Writes Sri ;the Danneyirke "News" permit me to state think you will consider a record in sheep-shear-ing. ; Eight Native shearers from Te lAiite,' Hawke's Bay, shore on six consecutive days at ilr. G. N. Pharazyn's station, Wae Wae Pa, 1822-1778-1743 . 1748—1688 and 180&—a total of 10,597. The ringer's tally for. "each day was 296-301-301-291-280 ( and -295, an average of 294 sheep per day of ordinary working hours. 'Two pressers pressed 43 bales of wool in one day in 11. hours.' The sheep were shorn in ordinary working hoursj and one man out of the' eight never shore 100 on any one dav, which speaks well for. the others. This splondid tally shows Iwhat it is possible to accomplish with Sh'earrng-machines. "In looking through a list of farms feapable of growing '.wheat in Canterbury," said Mr. John Brown, Government Direotor of . Agriculture, last weeE, "I was .astonished to see that very: many big farms werd growing Small areas, while most of the small farms were growing large areas. This did not seem fair, as by .growing wheat the small farms are depleting their fertility, and the large; farms are conserving theirs. It might be well for ihe Government to look iiito this fact."