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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 100, 29 July 1902, Page 4

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CANTERBURY MARKETS. OhßisTCHffJTichJ : July 25. The following are custrent prices piaid' to farmers,. f.0.b., Lyttfeeltori,, atid free of commission,. except where otherwise specified: - ; Wheat : Httnfer-’s, Pearl and'Tiiscan T 3s to 3s lOd ’at country stations. • Oats. —Long feed, 2s 3d ; short feed oats r 2s 3VT to 2s 4d ; milling Canadians 2s 6d at country stations. Barley (new); —3s to 3s 6dat country stations. Peas: Partridge, 3s to 3s 6d ; Blue Prussians 5s fid to 5s 9d at country stations. Beans —3s to 3s 3d, at country stations. Flour (millers’ quotations): Roller £lO 10s. Pollard : <£s 10s ton. Bran : £-1 10s. Oatmeal : <£ls f.o.b. Oatsbeaf chaff : 80s at country stations. Onions : £3 lOx at country stations. Potatoes : Beauty of Hebron £4; 4 kidneys for forward deli very, 80s to 85s, and derwents £2 Os Od at country stations. Grass Seed—Ryegrass, prime heavy town dressed 4s 3d to 4s 6d, cocksfoot 3|d to 3jd, ryegrass, Italian, town dressed 4s 6d. Dairy Produce; Cheese, factory 4§d to sd, dairy 4d to 4ld ; butter, factory local, Is Id, North Island Is, dairy 10d,salt(in boxes) 9d ; bacon, hams, 6d to 7d ; factory bacon and hams, gd higher, fo.b. STOCK SALES. Christchurch, 23rd July. At Addington to-day fat cattle numbered 218, including some good bull ocks and a lot of useful caws and heifers. The sale was on a par with last week. Best beef 22s 6d to 25s 6d, others 19s to 22s 6d, prime bullocks £lO to £l2 7s, steers £6 to £9 10s, extra prime heifers £9 to £l3 10s, others £5 5s to £8 10, co\Vs £5 to £7 ss. gtores and dairy cattle were in small supply, but the stores were good. Eighteen months steers £3 18s, 15 to 18 months old cattle £2 2s to £2 3s fid, dry cows £1 7s to £4. Fat sheep - About 3000 yarded, mostly of good quality. Buyers for shipment to Sydney, both alive and dead, hardened, but heavy-weights and freezing buyers operated more freely. Heavy wethers 19s 6d to 225, freezers 15x61 to 18x 4d and up to 19s 61 for a nice line of 240 from Oamaru. light wethers and ewes 14s 6d to 15s 3d, heavy ewes 15s to 18s, others 11s to 14s.

Fat lambs —400 penned, mostly irood sorts. There was a better dem uid, and nearly all were taken for exp >rt at 13s 9d to 14s a f evv smaller g ring to butchers at 11s 61 to 12s 6d. St »re sheep-3030 penned, mostly wethers and hoggets. There was better demand for all classes. Forward wethers 12s fid to 135.9 d. 1000 H ruth Canterbury., wethers- and ewes were taken by an Ashburton grazier at 12 j and 10s, gird sound mouthed ewes, 12s 9d to 14=, aged 5s 2d, hoggets fix to. 9s 10d. Pigs—About 350 yarded, and a good sale of all sorts. B iconers 38s to 48s t, > 60s fir extra heavy, equal to 4d per lb, p u-kers 22s to 34s equal to 4d to 4 Id per lb, large s: ryes 16s to 21s, smaller 12s to suckers and weane s 7s to, 9s 6d.^ '- Dunedin, July 23. At the Burnside market t -day 180 f it cattle were yarded, prices ruling nbmtthe same as ast week. Best bull >cks. £loi ss. to £ll ; medium, £8

d|9 15s ; best cows andyj^i^if^r^, ]£J 10s to £9 2s fid ; medium, £,6 to £7 t&Sji /. .*.••• if ,;•! ! /,•' : i'-U Sheep--1805 were penned, prices showing ap. ad vance ’of asout a shiljUngfajbead. . , 6d,; medium J, T4s to 15s £ 9H best ewfes/ /12s 6d to 13s 6d/ i2s. Lambs— 22 $ were yarqed , brices rhl- 1 ing a bout the same, as last \yeek/' Ejfest * 10s to lls; inediuni, 8s r fid ’t V9s 9d ; others, fix 6 1 to Bs. '/ .. , were penned, fill softs meeting with a very strong demand; Suckers, 7s to jos ; slips, 13s to 175.; stores, 18s 11 24s ; porkers, 1 26 s to, 335 ! ; bacouers, 40s to 54s ; heavy pigs, 62s to 68s. . ...

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. (in conjunction with Messi s Abraham and Wili ams), report that at their aale at Johnspnville, npar Wellington on Thursday last as. follows • —-There was an average entry of bullocks. Of fair quality. Killing beef sold at last week’s rates; rough sorts were dull of sale. We quote—Beef 22s 6d to 235, best bullocks £8 15s to £9 ,ss, others £8 LOs to £9, light sorts, £7 5s to L 7 15s. Sheep which were ’in Short supply and of poor quality, sold at last .week’s rates —ewes 10s 6d to l ls' I'd, wethers 13s lOd to 14s 6d.

Tire following are the wholesale selling prices on the Wellington pro duce market : Wheat (fowls’), 3s". 6d , to 3x 7d bushel, feed .oats’ 2s lid to 3s Id, Tartarian seed .3s sd, dun oats 3s, barley 3s 3d bushel, rye-ybrn 4- bushel, maize 3* • 10 1 bushel,, flour, -LI 1, ton, ,pollard 1 30s t.»n, bran, 1 10s ton, oaton eal Ll 4 t in, Oatsbeaf chaff L 5 t i.LS. l<\s t 'll ,; hay L4lO s, ton, partridge peas 4 4 3d, horse be.ms 4s 3d bushel, cock-f “>t seed dressed to . 4Jd, farmers’ parcels .3d .to..‘^3iI per lb, see(l potatoes, Beauty of Hebron, Fluke Kid nev L 6, Early Rose, L 6, VTp-to- j Date, Peach Blossom, Victory, Breeze’s' Prolific 100 s, Kidi ev, Verm'mts 100 , Derwents 755; q't i-ions L 6 ton, factory rolls Is to Is. Id, dairy butter 101 lb, cheese bacon 6J <1 to 7d, V>est factory . bams 7|d, rolls 7;|d, f iwk 2s 91 to 3s 31 pair, ducks 6 1 pair, turkeys he rtfs 7s to 8s- pap,, gobblers •9x to lls pair, geese 5-4 > parr, fredi eggs Is 6d t) Is 8d dozen, cabpagys 2-i t> 4s sack, caul iff .overs -to 17s pei; .sack f >i- choice, pumpkins L2 10s ton, marrows 3s 6d to 4s 6 1 sack, cooking applies 3s to 5s pea 401 b case, dessert apples 5s to 7s 401 b case, fed carrots 50s, swedes 40s ton, wild ducks 4s pel* pair, quail Is 6d to Is 8d brace, pigeons 2s 61 pair, pheasant.-, 10s per brace, hares, Is 6.1 each, parsnips 4s to 5s paer sack.