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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 209, 8 March 1897, Page 2

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(Per Press Association) London If Arch 5 CaHforman No 1 milling 335. Rnssians 81s, London quotation No. 1 bard Dulnth 34s 6<3, New York quotation No. 2 Red Winter wheat 76 per cents. Colonial oats, fine quality, 255, common 21s 6d Beans, 325. Peas, Victorian dan, 27s The Bradford wool market shows a downward tendency. Sugar, German beet, 8s 10|d ; Jara 11s 3id. Iron, 45s 7jd. New Zealand mutton unchanged, lambs, s£d. Butter, slow of sale, quotations 90s to 945. A few lots hare been sold at 965. Cbeese, quieter, the high prices hare checked the high demand. New Zea land is quoted at 565. Hemp, unchanged. The English wheat market is quiet, but steady. The Continental has a downward tendency, American dull. The proposed American wool syndic cate is ridiculed in Bradford wool circles. It is stated that the leading American purchasers are unaware of its formation. The Board of Trade returns for March show that the imports increased by £1,768,428 and the exports decreased by L 1,639,413. CHARLES CARR'S STOCK SALE REPORT. Af; the Birmingham sale on Wednesday, the 3rd inst, the yards were well filled with both cattle and sheep, bidding was spirited, and nearly fall the stock was sold, fully maintaining recent yalne*. Feilding sale. Friday sth inst. This was one of the largest sales I bare had the pleasure of holding. Erery ayailable space was filled with a good class of both cattle and sheep. The attendance was very large, buyers plentiful, and bidding brisk, resulted in most of the stock changing hands at prices satisfactory to vendors. Birmingham — 12 to 18- months steers 30s ; 2 year steers, 40s ; 3 year bullocks, 62s ; 4 and 0- tooth and f.m. ewes, ss, 5s Id, 5s 6d. 6s 8d ; 2-tooth ewes, 6s 3d ; lambs, Is lid, 3s 2d, 3s Bd, 4s, 6s Id ; wethers, 6s 6d, 7s 2d and Bs. Feilding— Store bullocks, &% Yin ; forward do., M 13s; 2}-year steers, £1 16s ; fat cows, £3 ; forward do., £2 15s 6d ; 18-months cattle, £1 12s 6d to £2 2s 6d; weaners, 16s te 18s; fat wethers, 8s 6d ; store wethers, 6s 7d, 6i lOd, 7i 7d, 7fl 3d, 8s; 2-tooth ewes, 5s Bd, 6s Id, 7s, 8s Id ; mixed 2 tooths, 5s 6d to 6s 7d ; full mouth breeding ewes, 4s to 8s 2d ; 4- tooth ewes, 6s to 7s 6d ; lambs, 8s to sa.