COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 35, 11 October 1913, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Webster, Dobson’s Stock Report.

On Tuesday we held our usual fortnightly Stratford sale. There was a fair yarding of stock and moderate attendance. Competition was fairly brisk, several pens being passed at tin hamcmr, but sold after. We quote: Yearling colored heifers £4 10s Gd to £4 15s, empty heifers £3 3s to £3 12s Gd, heifers in calf £4 3s Cd to £4 15s, ■ybrfrling heifers' £2 4s to £2 15s, 3year bullocks £6 8s Gd, store cows £4 to £4 17s Gd. In the heifer yards we had a fair yarding,: but quality in most cases was inclined, to the inferior .sorts, and this class difficult to sell; good heifers met with good competition and sold freely. Wo, quote ;—Jersey and Holstein springers £8 to £9 10s, Shorthorn heifers 3-year-old £6 to £7, 2-year do. £5 to ; £G ss, backward heifers £4 5s to £5 10s.

We report private sales as follows : Store cows £4 ss, £3, £3 12s Gd, £4, £4 3s Gd, forward do £4 15s to £5 10s, grade Holstein hulls £9, £l2, £lO. £jL% s £2o,, 3 at £ll each, 20mon th-citoerjj £3 15s, £4 ss, yearling steers £2 10s, £2 ss, £3, £3 3s for a line of 120, £3 8s Gd for a line of 98, fat ewes 235, 22s 9d, 2-year steers £4 10s, 3-year steers £G, fat wethers 27s 3d, Jersey hulls £5 ss, £ls 15s. £3 8s Gd to £3 12s Gel, yearlingdlulls £6 15s to £7 10s, springing Jieifers, £5 15s, £6 ss, £6 12s Gd, £7;,,,. 1,,

INFERIOR GHEES?

it-»"" T T'‘r: j ■ . Replying in .tjie Hausp to Mr Wilkinson (Egmont), who urged. t,ho .Government, in view of sprious conplaints from. the High Commissioner, to co-opprate with fho dairy companies' to secure an improvement in the tpuilifcy of cheese exported, the Prime ’(Minister staets that the necessity is recognised by directorates of the dairy companies and also by the Government, and the matter has been recently gone into at the annual meetings of these companies. There is, adds Mr Massey, every reason to believe ,that as a result the quality p” this §Q%son’s output will show a considerable advance. The officers of the Agricultural Department co-oper-ate fully with the dairy companies by consultation with-udi rectors, instruction at Factories, an(cV.inspection at the suppliers’ farnjs, as far as the number of men. available frill-allow, and the Government frill spare no effon to; facilitate! the?, object in view.

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' Ibqftjibti Wool Sales.^—Thd sales blbs-l ed strong, Quotations are unchanged since last advices, except for scoured for which Jhe market’fs- weaker. 134,000 bales were sold at the wool sales, of which 56,000 hales were taken for the Continent and 4.ooo»iufesr for America.. 36,000 bales wore held overt r,u; .nc'idvo- ) ) ,}<r . fEafloacatW© j q.nntpt present,.) spot values for the follnrvvyzag .descriptifinsj:, —-Gbbcl muttoi| |36sr Rd, 'good beef 9d, 33s{ . ( Tbe--market, .«• louver t-, : ' •,

Wheat.‘k-Wo? hnyp, sold an Australian cargo at 80s, 6c.i.f.K-The market i*i weak with a ImVeivtendency, and is likely to declinjb. Buyers are holding oft.' |. ~ , , , Newton King’s Weekly Report. On Monday,? 6th inst. , at my Urenni yards, I had a good entry of store cattle, and a ’good demand for most classes. Yearling heifers made 'from £2 Ids to £2cl9s, good yearling 6s, small £2 8s Gd, empty 2-year ilmfers £4 2s Gd, £3 14s, £3 13s 6d.■'Silid £$ 7s Gd for a rough line, 2-year fqjggrs £4 to *£4 • Bs, 2J-year steers £:1 18s Gd to £3 Bs, 3-year bullocks f'G.’yts to £6 7-sy'.small store cows £s/fy to'; £3 10s, forward cows £1 ds Gd'to £4 13s, fat heifers £0 9s, fat co\Vs 7ff Gd to £7 25 : "6d t r. good grade Jersey bull £lO, small bidls £1 3s to £3 10s, ewes in lamb £1 3s, fat wethers £1 4s!6d, : store .ivethers £l. good weaner pfgs* 17s Gd, spring trap £7. In the dairy pens I offered 95 springing heifers■ and cows,*. 87 being sold at the following prices: Good 3year heifers fi|mt*£G 15s to •£ 7 10s, backwawl' £d i()sOto ; '£G ;2s Gd, good 2-year old heifers-with color from £5 10s to £6 Ids) others £3 12s Gd to £4 Ids, springing cows £4 10s to £5.

At my Rahotu yards on Tuesday. 7th inst., for my spring cattle fair, 1 had a good yarding of about 850 head of mixed cattle. There was a very representative attendance of buyers, and the entry, being mostly good saleable cattle in fair condition, a very satisfactory sale resulted. Best yearling steers made from £3 Is to £3 6s, fair lines £2 10s to £2 14s 6d, steers with bad color or small £1 9s to £2 5s Gd, nice pen of Jersey yearling heifers, all good colored, but I'cav showing in calf, £4 14si6d, good Vrell-grown, colored £l, colored heifers -(.small) £2 9s to £3 Gs Gd, 1 grade yearling heifers £2 3s to £2 10s Gd; small £l l‘os, mixed £2 10s Gd, 18-raonth steers £3 l| t s, 2-year Steers £4 4s to £4 13s, 2)-year * steers £4 17s Gd to £5 11s, the £5 11s line containing a number of good 3-year olds, empty 2-year heifer's £3 14s Gd to £3 18s Gd, rough £3 9s to £3 11s, small store cows £2 19s to £3 11s, store coavs £3 13s to £3 19s Gd, and for good Hues from £1 2s Gd to. £4 12s, fonvard coavs nj> to £5 Gs. fat coavs £6 5s to £7 8s Gd, lat heifers £5 Is to £6 4s, dairy bulls Irom £3 15s to £8 ss, yearling Holstein bulls £2 17s Gd to £3 10s. yearling Jersey bulls £2 9s Gd to £3 ss, AA-ell-bred yearling Shorthorn bull £G 10s. On account of the Executors of 11. Horcow’s Estate, grade Hoi-

stein bulls realised from 9 to 13J guineas, springing heifers from £5 is Gd to £G 12s Gd, and from £3 17s Gd to £4 15s for small sorts.

On the same day at Stratford springing heifer yards, best heifers brought from £G 5s to £8 10s, others £3 15s to £5, dairy cows £4 10s to £8 ss.

Private sales for the week as, follows Well-bred Holstein bulls £l7 ]()s, pedigree Jersey bull 15 guineas, Shorthorn bulls 3-year bullocks £6 10s, 2-year steers with color £4, yearling steers £2 15s to £2 19s, store cows £3 10s to £4 ss, grade yearling heifers with color £3 ss, springing heifers £G to £8 17s 6d, dairy cows £8 to £9 os, ewes and lambs £1 2s. mixed fat sheep £1 3s.