Wool, Skin, and Hides.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8891, 10 August 1907, Page 2

Wool, Skin, and Hides.

Messrs A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report:—At our usual monthly sale in Feildiug, on Thursday ye offered a heavy catalogue, comprising 84 bales of crutchings and wooL 1500 skins, 500 hides, 147 tins and o casks of tallow, and usual sundries. A large and representative attendance of buyers were present, and prices realised were on a par with recent quotations from other centres, bxius sold well and showed an improvement on last mouth’s values. Hides were not noticeably cheaper. Clean and bright crutchings sold well and made up to 6J*l. For inferior lots competition was limited Tallow realised top prices. Quotations;— Wool: Crutchings, bright and clean, Gd to 6Vsd, medium quality to o?fd, inferior 3%d to sd, crossbred Bd, black (%'d, dead mediunr 7>Scl, "ood Bcl, inferior 2d, lambs 7d, bellies -Id, looks and pieces 31<;d, seedy fleece 3 3 .(. Sheepskins; Halt ro three-quarter wool Bd, full wools Hue crossbred up toSVVd, broken half to three-quarter wools G’-sd. o»-td. lambs 7 ; ({d, pelts inferior 3t.pl, light 1-yl,. bog hhd, shorts builw-u*’ oihir'gooa (iijd. half dry crossbred 3s 7.1 to Vs. Hides; Ox -I'v.'-l to 5-1. cow in good c--ndition 4! ;,i 40 4 r, |Vl, rough 3d to 4U.calt' skins fitpl,' drv s ! pd cut aud sliupy 2’.fd, rough 4H;I, yearlings cut and slippy hides Id to 2jdd. Tallow : Casks 33s to 35s tins ICs <,O 2Gs 3d per cwt; hones 8s 3d per cwt, horse hair 14d per bushel. S