THE MARKETS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9377, 22 February 1909, Page 8

THE MARKETS.

Messrs A. H. Atkinson & 00., Ltd., report on Feilding sale on FridayWe bad a good entry of pigs, mostly grown sorts, which sold well. A large entry of poultry was forwarded and sold to advantage. Nearly 200 cases of fruit came cowhand, the bulk of which we quitted at satisfactory prices. We quote; Horses, bay pony £3, Pigs, slips 10s 6d to 14s 6d, stores 13s 3d to 32s 3d, porkers 14s 6d to 27s 9d, sow 30s, young sow 15s 9d. Poultry, young cockerels Is 2d, roosters Is 8d to la lid, hens Is 5d to 3s sd, chicks 6d to 10d, ducks 2s Id to 2s 3d, all at each. Produce, potatoes 4s 6d per 90lb bags, 4sicwt bags, pig potatoes 2s 6d to 2s 9d per sack; peaches 4s, 4s 3d, 4s 6d per case, nectarines 4a 9d per case, plums Is 6d 8s 9d per case, rhnbarb 3d per bjindle: onions to Id, marrows 6d eaoh, cabbages 3s per sack, factory bacon, hams7%d, sides 7%d.

STOCK REPORT

Messrs Dalgety & 00., Ltd., report At onr Taihape sale on Thursday the 18th inst., we had a very good ydrding of sheep and a moderate entry of cattle. There was a large attendance of buyers and others interested and we disposed of the majority of our entry at prices as below:—Call lambs to 4sßd, medium lambs to 7s, rape lambs 8s to 8s 2d, mixed age ewes to 7a, s.m. ewes 9s, mixed 2 tooths small 9s lid to 10s, 2 and 4 tooth Lincoln rams l%gna to to 18 months steers £3 6s year steers £3 7a 6d. Messrs Abraham & Williams, Ltd. £ report that at Feilding on Friday they had a good yarding of botn sheep and cattle. There was a good attendance. Good breeding ewes and rape lambs sold well. Quotations: —Rape lambs 8s 4d to 8a lOd, 4 and 6 tooth t.m. to o year ewes 10s 6d to 11s 9d, 2 tooth ewes 12s lOd to 13s lid, store lambs 6s 6d to Bs, sound mouth ewes 6s 9d to Bs, cull lambs 3s lOd to 6s. Cattle : Light fat cows £3 10s to £3 15s, bulls £1 10s to £3 8s 6d, 18 months to 2 year steers £3 10s, cows and calves £2 6s to £3, store cows 30s to £3, forward cows £3 5s to £3 10s. WELLINGTON WOOL SALES.

The/ final of the Wellington series of sales for the 1908-9 season took place on Friday. There was a record catalogue, a big attendance and a realisation at a splendid range of values. For crossbreds and finer qualities the prices of last sale were well maintained, and where there was a difference it was all in the seller’s favour. Lamb’s wool showed a very satisfactory appreciation in value, bright superior wools of this description making an advance of from \ld to a pound above the prices of last sales. Medium lamb’s wool showed an improvement of a pound. Pieces generally were %d a pound better value. Generally the tone of the market was considerably stronger. The buyers contend that their prices were quite equal to anything thtey have given this season, that is for the decent quality wools, but. that prices were naturally erratic for inferior descriptions, wools which no one could tell what they were actually worth. This particularly applied to the badly marketed wools, □ □skirled and beavv in condition. The buye~s again complain of the ridiculous ideas of value / entertained by some growers, who fix reserves on their wool, often twenty-five to fifty per cent, above their true market value, owing to their inability to discern between varying degrees of quality. Some of the individual sales will give an idea of the prices realised. Forty bales cf a halfbred went to 10%d. and three-quarterbred ewes to 9d. A Waituna Komney made 9d, ami lambs from the same district of the same description 9%d. A Hawke’s Bay grower, who missed the Napier sales and forwarded his woe! to Wellington for realisation, made 9%d for crossbred ewes and 9d for lambs’ wool.— W.Z. Times.