GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORTS

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 21

GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORTS

Messrs Dalgety and Co. report as follows: — We held our usual weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we offered a large catalogue to a fair attendance of buyers. We cleared our catalogue at prices as under : — Oats. — During the last week there has been very little business doing, and prices have a decided easier tendency. Quotations: Prime milling Gartons, Is 7£d to Is 8d; sparrowbills, Is 7d to Is 8d; good to best feed, Is s^d to Is 7d; inferior to medium, Is 4d to Is 5d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — The market remains at a standstill, and with, no business passing quotations are nominal. Prime milling, "4s 4d to 4s 6d ; medium to good, 4s 2d to 4s 3d; best whole fowl wheat, 3s lOd to 3s lid; inferior and smutted, 2s 6d to 3s 4d per- bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — Growers who have been holding for large prices are now inclined to rush their potatoes on to the market, and consequently prices show a considerable decline, as "there is only the local demand to supply. Any but freshly-picked prime samples are hard to dispose of. Quotations : Extra prime, £3 to £3 ss; medium to good, £2 to £2 10s. Chaff. — Heavy bright, well-cut oaten sheaf meets with ready salo at late quotations, but medium and inferior is not so much in request, the market being oversupplied with this quality. Best oaten sheaf, £2 12s 6d to £2 17s 6d; medium to good, £2 5s to £2 10s; inferior and discoloured, £1 15s to £2. Straw. — Quotations : Oaten, £1 5s to £1 7s 6d per ton; wheaten, £1 ss, pressed (ex truck). Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report: We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stoi-es on Monday. The attendance of buyers was not so large as usual. Competition for most lines on offer was not brisk, and only a portion of the catalogue was quitted at auction. Values ruled as under : — Oata. — The market shows no change. Shippers are not operating freely, and their requirements are being supplied chiefly ex store. The quantity of oats offering on the spot is now very limited, and anything like large orders would readily absord present stocks. Quotations: Prime milling Gartons, Is 7£d to is 8d; sparrowbills, Is 7d to Is 8d; good to best feed, Is 6cl to Is 7d; inferior to medium, Is 4d to Is s^d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — No business of any importance ] is passing. In milling lines sales are confined to small quantities of prime wheat, but for fowl wheat there has been pood demand, and stocks are now reduced. Quotations: Prime milling, 4s 4d io 4s 6d; medium to good, 4s Id to 4s 3d ; best whole fowl wheat, 3s lOd to 3s lid ; medium, 3s 4d to 3s 9d ; broken and damaged, 2s 6d to 3s 3d per bushel (3acks extra). Potatoes. — The demand has slackened considerably, and only choice lots have any attention from shippers. Consignments have come forward freely, and in view of the quantity offering prices have suffered to some extent. Medium and inferior lots are difficult to place. Quotations: Best Up-to-Dates. £3 to £3 ss; medium to good, £2 5s to £2 15s; inferior, £1 10s to £2 per ton (sacks included). Chaff. — Prime oaten sheaf is in request with local buyers, but other sorts are without much demandi Quotations : Best oaten sheaf, £2 12s cd to £2 17s 6d ; medium to good, £2 to £2 10s ; light and discoloured, £1 10s to £1 17s 6d per ton (bags extra). Straw.— Quotations: Oaten, £1 5s to £1 7s 6d ; wheaten, £1 5s per ton (pressed).

HIDE AND SKIN REPORT.

Messrs Dalgety and Co (LtdJ report as follows: —

Rabbitskins. — We held our usual weekly auction sale of rabbitskins on Monday, when we offered a large catalogue to a full attendance of buyers. With the season getting on quantities offering show a 6light decline, almost most of the offerings show a falling off in quality, many of the higher quality skins being now off season, and co commanding lower prices. Notwithstanding this prices on Monday -were from a firm to a slight advance, and we .cleared our catalogue under keen competition as under: — Supov winter <lo«, 28d to 34-cJ ; second winter does. 2-kl to 25d ; outgoing winter does, 17d to 20d; winter bucks, 16d to 19d ; outgoing winter bucks. 13d to 16d; springs, lid to 13d; autumns, 13d to 15ct; racks, 9d to

lOJd ; first winter blacks, 24d to 32d ; second winter blacks, 20d to 24d. Sheepskins.— Wi. held our usual weekly auction sale of sheepskins on Tuesday, when I we offered a large catalogue to a repsresanfcativo gathering of buyers. We cleared our catalogue under good competition at prices about on a par with late quotations. Fullvroolled half bred, Sd to BJd; full-woolled fine crossbred, 7£d to Bid ; full-woolled crossbred, 6|d to 7^d ; full-woolled merino, 7d to Sid; half to three-quarter wools— halfbred, 7£d to ed ; crossbred, 6Jd to 7£d ; merino, s£d to 6£d ; quarter wools — halfbred, 6d to 7d ; crossbred, 5d to 6d ; merino, 4£d to s£d; lambskins, 7d to 7|d: celts, 3d to 4d. Hides. — We held our usual fortnightly auction sale of hides at our stores on Thursday, when we offered a good catalogue to a full attendance of buyers. Under keen competition our catalogue was cleared at prices about on a par with late quotations. One of the bs-st lots in our catalogxje consisted 1 of 27 ox hides averaging 711b, which brought the satisfactory price of 7|d per Ib. This lot was part of a consignment of 46 ox hides, and th© remainder of the Hne sold as follows:— 12 ox at 6|d, 7ox at 7£d, thus making a splendid average for the line. We quote : Ox — Extra stout, heavy, 7d to 7sd ; stout, heavy, 6^d to 6sd ; heavy, 5Jd to 6|d ; m-edium. 5Jd to 6id ; light, 5d to s|d ; cow — stout, heavy, 6d to 6*d ; medium, 5Jd to 6£d ; light, 4Jd to 5Jd ; damaged and inferior ox arid cow, 3£d to 4id ; yearlings. s|d to 6£d ; calfskins, 7d "to B|d ; horse hides, 9s 6d to 10s 6d. Tallow and Fat. — In exceptionally kern demand. Prime mutton tallow, 19s to 23a; mixed mutton tallow, 16s to 19s; best caul fat, co 17s; rough fat, 14s to 16s. September 9, 1909.