FARM & COMMERCIAL

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 12

FARM & COMMERCIAL

AUCTION SALES TO-DAY. Waterloo Road, Lower Hutt, 2 p.m.— Sale of furniture and effects (H. E. Leighton). MONDAY. Tow'll Hall. Wellington, 9 a.m. —Wool sale (Wellington Woolbrokers’ Association). TUESDAY. Epsom Showgrounds, 1.30 p.m.—Three days’ sale of stud cattle (Wright. Stephenson, and Co.. Ltd.). Columba Road Yards. Masterton, noon —Cattle fair (Dalgety and Co.). Levin—Stock sale. FARMING INTERESTS BUTTER AND CHEESE LONDON QUOTATIONS. (Rec. November 12, 8.5 p.m.) London, November 11. » Butter is slow of sale. Danish is quoted at 1665. per cwt.; Australian choicest salted, 140 s. to 1445., unsalted 160 s. to 1645. The New Zealand Board is maintaining the prices fixed on November 4, but sales are very small. Fair quantities of stored New Zealand aye selling at about 140 s. The cheese market is steady. New Zealand, coloured, 85s. per cwt.; white, 86s. WOOL MARKET SLIGHT IMPROVEMENT AT BRADFORD. (Rec. November 12, 8.5 p.m.) London, November 11. The Bradford wool tops quotations are unchanged. The market shows a slight improvement. Topmakers are not anxious to sell at the recent low prices.

NEWS AND. NOTES

FEILDING STOCK SALE PRICES SLIGHTLY LOWER. B? Telegbaph.—Pbess Association Feilding, November 12. At the Feilding stock sale th«vo was a heavy yarding of fat sheep, both ewes and wethers, including several good quality pens. Competition was fairly good, but prices were on a slightly lower level. There was a small yarding of store sheep, and prices were on a par with previous sales. Fat Sheep.—Ewes, shorn 17s. Bd. to 245.; woolly, 19s. 3d. to 245.; wethers, shorn. 16s. to 265.; woolly, 265. Store Sheep.—M.s. woolly hoggets, 2U.: wether hoggets, woolly, 15s. 2d. to 225.; shorn m.s. hoggets, 14s. 9d.; woolly ewe hoggets, 275.; shorn ewe hoggets. 16s. 7d.; shorn four and six-tooth wethers, 16s. lOd. to 205.; shorn two-tootb ewes, 17s. 2d : m.a. woolly ewes, 255. 2d., 355. 6d. Cattle.—Prime heavy Hereford heifers, £11; good fat cows, £8 25.; light fat P.A. heifers, £6 125.; three-vear Steers, £1 65.; three-year Herefordcross steers. £5 155.; 2|-year P.A. cross steers, £4 7s. THE SHEEPFARMER'S LOT POWER OF THE SHEARER. The vicissitudes of the sheep farmer during the shearing season were explained by a farmer yesterday to a Dominion reporter, “I engaged my shearers months ago,” he said—“five of them. When the day arrived for them to come to me, two were missing without any explanation. They are still missing, and so also is the explanation. Although they could easily come into town by train or motor-bus, that did not suit these shearers. I had to go in my own motor-car to where they were and bring them to the farm. On arrival they entered upon an .exhaustive inspection of my buildings and equipment, and whenever it suited them they insisted upon alteration* being made. Otherwise they would refuse to work., My homestead they looked upon, while they were there, ns almost their own property. But worse than mere alterations to buildings and equipment, the provision of soft mattresses was in store for me. The award rate for shearers is 275. 6d. per 100 sheep. These men demanded 325. 6d., or else they would not work at all. What else could I do but give them the extra 55.? I had to have my sheep shorn. Then the men resolved on a certain day to go to town, so they discovered that the sheep were wet. But they were not so satisfied on the point that they did not take a vote among themselves on the question, thinking, no doubt, that I, as employer, could have no legitimate complaint to that procedure being adopted, and that I would cheerfully reconcile myself to the respit. Tlie vote, however, did not go according to plan, and one man turned that scale in favour of continuing work. The men shore a few more sheep and then went off to town.’’ DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date November 11: — Butter—Market is depressed. New season’s quotations. Now Zealand finest 1505., first grade 1485.; last ‘eason’s stored first grade 1365. to 1405.; Danish, 1765. (180 s. Australian finest salted, 140 s. to 1465. (1445.); unsalted, 160 s. (1685.). Cheese —Market very quiet. New season’s quotations. New Zealand finest white 87s. first grade white 865., coloured 855.; last season’s, 855.; Canadian, 86s. to 87s (86s. to 88s.). Last week’s quotations shown in pareurhjses. WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., report wholesale values as follow:—Mixed fowl feed, 5-sack lots or over 6s. 6d., lesser lots 6s. 9d. bushel; linseed meal, 165.; linseed nuts, 14s. per 1001 b. bags; whole linseed, 20s. 6d.; oyster shell grit, 5sack lots or over 55., lesser lots ss. 6d. per 1001 b.; pipi shell grit, 5-sack lots or over 55., lesser lots ss. 6d. per 1001 b.; oats, machine dressed seed Algerians 6s. 3d. to 6s. 6d., farmers’ dressed seed Algerians ss. Bd., Duns 6s. 3d. to 6s. 6d., Gartons ss. 2d., seed Gartons ss. 4d., feed 10-sack lots 4s. 4d., lesser lots 4s. 6d., crushed ss. 6d., black pats ss. 6d. per bushel, sacks in; Algerians, 4s. lOd.; shelled oats, for chicks, 6s. 3d. per bushel; South African maize, whole 7s. 3d., crushed 7s. 9d. per bushel; barley, feed ss. 6d.; wheat, Australian milling, Bs. 6d., sacks in; wheatmeal, feed, ton lots, £l6; undergrade Gartons for pig food, 3s. lid. per bushel, in 10-saek lots; rye corn. 10-sack lots or over 6s. 7d., lesser lots 6s. 9d. bushel; butter, prime farmers’ separator lid., dairy, bulk and pats lid. to Is.; turkeys, Is, 2d. to Is. 3d. nor lb.; eggs, first grade, new laid Is. lOd. to Is. lid., storekeepers’ Is. 9<1.; ducks. Runners, young 10s. to 125., large whites 14s. to 155., old 9s. per pair; fowls, White Leghorns 6s. to Bs., Black Orpingtons and similar heavy varieties 10s. to 125.; fungus. N.Z., 9d. to lOd. per- lb.; roosters, White Leg horns. Bs. to 95.; dressed pork. 60’s to 90’s, Bd. to£d.; sucking pig, B{d. to 91d. per lb.; honey (discoloured), in 601 b. tins, sd. per lb.; sucrosine, 1-ton lots or over £l2 10s., lesser lots 135.; feed peas and beans, 7s. 3d. per bushel, sacks in; rock salt, 6s. per brtg: molasses, in casks 40s. each, in cases Bs. 6d.; Blenheim chaff, ton lots, prime £lO 155., good heavy £9 ss. to £lO per ton. sacks in; mutton birds, in kits, cooked aiul salted, lid. per bird; basic slag, £5 per ton; superphosphates, £5 16s. for New Plymouth, less discounts: Chinese peanuts, shell, sack lots, 4Jd. per lb.; Java peanuts, shelled, sack lots. 4Jd. per lb.; bran, half-ton lots or over £9 10s. ton. lesser lots 12s. cwt.: baby chick raiser, 225. per l(101b. ling; chick raiser, coarse, 21s. per ifiOlb. bag; pigmeal. £ll 15s. per ton for ton lots, lesser lots 10s per 1001 b.; poultry spice, cases containing 40 packets £3 10s., case, lesser lots 2s. 6d. per packet; black leaf. 40 spray. 21b. tins 13s each, 101 b. tins 50s. each, net; potatoes, Dakotas, ton lots Canterbury grown. £5 to £5 10s„ North Island £4; seed potatoes, New Era £8 10s., Arran Chief £6 10s. seed Red Dakotas £6 10s. per ton., all South Island grown; potatoes for pigs or poultry, 4s. 6d. per sack: new potatoes, 16s. to 17s. per cwt.; pollard, J-ton lots or over, £ll 10s. per ton, lesser lots 12s. cwt.