THE MARKETS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9343, 12 January 1909, Page 8

THE MARKETS.

STOCK REPORT. Messrs Freeman R. Jackson & Co. report;—We held onr first sale of the year fat Wanganui yards on the 6th inst. Onr yarding consisted of 350 cattle, 1500 sheep, and 85 pigs. The attendance was good and bidding spirited, especially for cattle. Practically everything yarded sold. We quote; Light fat bullocks £7 3s, fat and forward bullocks £6 10s, 3-year bullocks fat cows £4 6s to £4 10s, empty cows good £3 14s to £3 16s 6d, medium do., £3 10s to £3 15s, 3-year heifers £3, 18-months heifers 26s to 275, heifers and cows £3 4s 6d, 3-year heifers 35s 6d to £3 3s, 3-year heifers in calf £2 11s 6d, 2-year steers £2 IBs, young bulls "£3 to £3 74. aged bulls £3 to £3 10s, mixed yearlings 35s 6d, cows and calves £3. 19s 6d to £8 12s 6d, small weaners 13s 6d to 15s, vealera 15s, shorn 2tooth wethers 10s 4d, woolly lambs 6s 8d to 7s, fat ewes 10s 4d to 11 s 3d, store ewes 6s 3d to 7s, mixed 2-tooths small 6s. Pigs: Heavy porkers 23s to 255, stores good 17s 6d, others 13s 6d to 16s 6d, .WOOL SALES, r- —• ■ ■ tm Messrs Abrafiain & Williams report At the third sale of the season, held on Friday and Saturday last, Bth and 9th January, of our offering (2000 bales} a great deal was heavy in condition and off new country. This class of wool, with the brighter coarse wools, sold very well indeed, and prices were fully up to last sale’s rates. It was in the better olasss of wools that any change in price was apparent. Bright free wools did not realise within a halfpenny per lb. of prices raling at last sales. This was generally accounted for by the absence of American competition. Lambs wool was in fair demand, and all bright good-length wool brought good value. Our highest price for lambs was B>£d. Competition for the lower sorts of wools — bellies, pieces, etc —was keen, and prices were at a good level. We sold a big proportion of our catalogne under the hammer, and expect to quit further lines at passed-in prices. Some of our sales comprised the following brands r—Ringahnri, 5 bales A hoggets, hoggets, 8d ; 6 bales A ewes, 7%; 2 bales, 5%d; W over Ferulea, 43 bales of bright free crossbred at 8d ; 19 bales hoggets at 6j^d; 7 bales lambs, 6^d; HS over Ofcimai, 26 bales log-stained at Kara, 9 bales medium crossbred, 7%d ; 3 bales lambs, O, bahis medium crossbred, 7(1; 8 under rye brow, 6 bales, Southdown, - over ' W 43 bales coarse erossbrnd, 6%d.