COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 63, 6 July 1914, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

A DROP IN BUTTER. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! [Unitwo Fresh association.? Sydney, July 5. Butter drops four sliillings per cwt to-morrow. ANTWERP WOOL SALES. Berlin, July The Antwerp third wool sales opened briskly yesterday, very few crossbreds offering. Germany was the chief buyer. Compared with April, merinos were five centimes higher. A good selection of Monte \ ideo merinos and a fair quantity of good crossbreds and merinos advanced three to four per cent, and fine crossbreds rather more. German spinners bought practically all the , better classes of merinos and crossbreds, the tendency for spot and futures being very strong.

NEWTON KING’S WEEKLY REPORT. On Thursday and Friday, 23rd and 24th ult at Puniho (in conjunction with the X.Z. Loan Co., Hawera), I conducted Mr Win. Greenway’s clearing sale. There was a large attendance from all parts of Taranaki, and a spirited competition throughout for .all lines offered, prices obtained being:—.Dairy cows for anything calving early £7 10s to £ls, later £5 10s to'£7, the line of 202 averaging £8 ss, springing heifers £5 to £8 15s, in calf heifers £3 5s to £4 12s Gd, Shorthorn bulls £8 15s to £l2 10s, yearling Shorthorn bulls £‘s, 21 and 3 year steers £6 7s Cd to £7 os. fat cows and heifers £7, store and forward cows £4 17s 6d, boners £2 15s. weauer to yearling steers £2 13s - Gd, weauer heifers £1 l3s to £1 16s 6d, farm horses £2O to £34, yearlings £lO 10s to £l2 10s, hacks £6 to £B, working bullocks £32 10s and £33 10s per pair, breeding sows £2 12s Gd to £0 ss.

On Monday, 29th ult., at the TJreuui yards, there was a full yarding of both sheep and cattle, for all of which I had a goo dinquiry, most of the entry being cleared as follows:—Meaner.to yearling steers £3 2s 6d, £2 17s, £2 12s 6d, £2 9s, weauer to yearling heifers £1 17s and £1 18s 6d, mixed yearlings £1 17s 6d to £2 Is, empty 20 month heifers £3 13s, £3 10s Gd, £3 10s, £3 os, £3 7s Gd, £3 6s Gd, £3 3s, £3, 2 to 2J year steers £4 to £4 13s, 2 to year heifers £5 13s, springing heifers £4 to £5 7s Gd, dairy cows £6 and £7. All the dairy cattle yardqd were of poor quality. Fat con's (some in calf) £6 7s ,8d to £6 9s, forward cows £4 14s to £5 ss, store cows £3 13s Cd to £4 4s, light framed cows £2 7s to £3 4s, cull lambs 8s 9d, f.ra. ewes in lamb 18s Gd to £l. 4 tooth store wethers 19s 9d, aged sheep 14s Gd, 12s, Us, 8s Gd. forward owes 17s 9d and 18s 9d, rams 10s, fat owes (good) £1 2s God and £1 2s Gd, fat wethers £1 ss, On Tuesday, 30fh ult., at the Durham Road, Inglewood, for Mr John Wheeler's clearing sale, I .had a good attendance and good competition. The dairy cows were in fair condition, and being mostly August-Septcmber culvers, did not look at their best, and this, with the absence of yarding facilities, militated against higher prices being obtained. Any September calvors sold at from £7 to £9 15s, la to calvers and J cows £3 15$ to £5 15s, springing heifers £4 15s to £G ss, weaner Jersey heifers £2 10s. The pedigree Jersey cows were in good condition and sold at 36gns., 28gns., 24gns., and 20gns., pedigree heifers by K.C.B. 29gus., pedigree hulls llgus., pedigree yearling bulls £8 to 22gns. On the same day, at Mr W. Soarle’s, Awatnna, for his clearing sale, there were very few dairy cows to offer, tiiese selling at £l4, £lO, £lO, and C 8 ss, in calf heifers £7 10&, weauer heifers £2 ss, heavy farm horses £3ss, £3l. £3O.

At Rahotn, on the same day, owing to the very wot morning, I had only \ fair entry, all of which with the exception of some in calf heifers, being ■loured as follows:—Weanor heifers (good Jersey and Holstein) £2 .‘3s to £2 Lcs ; small £1 8s to £1 Ms, weaner :o yearling steers £3, £2 15s, £2 12s, 22'95, £2 ss, smaller £1 4s to 12s, empty yearling to 18 months heifers 22 10s, 2J year Holstein Jmll £B, springing heifers £5 15s to £6 10s, forward cows £5 14s Od, £5 ss, £o 4s id, £5 4s, £4 19s, £4 17s. good fresh store cows £4 2s to £4 9s (id, aged ■ows 22 to £2 15s. On Wednesday, Ist inst., 1 had a .rood attendance at Hr W. 13. Smith’s deal ing sale at the top of the Warea Hoad. The herd of cows being all voting and hred right into the Shorthorn, met with keen competition, selling at from £7 to £l2 15s, averaging 2!) 10s for the line of 47, and aged ■ows brought £4 Jos, empty cows £3 T,s to £1 3s, and on account of other vendors cows in milk and springing 'nought from £1 10s to 29, 18 months •olt by General Grant 211, aged farm marc £ls, 7 year draught gelding 232.

On the same day at Midhirst, for Mr \!ex. [frown's sale there was a large attendance of buyers Irom all parts if the district. The'herd of cows were til grade Jerseys, bred by the vendor iml in fine condition, reflecting great •rodit on .Mr Brown’s breeding. Buyers quickly appreciated the good lino •ffered and made keen competition, icows in calf selling at Irom TIB ns to ‘"2J Ids, and two in milk £8 Ids and :9, making an exceptionally good average of CIO per head. On account if other vendors: Dairy cows sold at from Co 10s to £9, Jersey weanor heifers £2 17s (id, springing heifers £B. On Thursday, 2nd hist., for Mr IV. I. George’s sale, on the Barrett Road, chore was a good attendance, with brisk competition for the herd of dairy cows, which, being a nicely select,ed lino, ineptly Jerseys, made' a good average of £9 10s, The Jersey tows

'sold at from £8 10s to £l2 10s, other grades from £6 10s to £7 os. On account of other vendors: Weauer steers £2 os, light store cows £0 3s, dairy cows £5 os to £0 15s. Private sales for the week as follows: — Weauer steers (only a fair line) £2, weaker heifers £1 10s to £1 15s, mixed weaners £1 Is to £1 18s, and £3 10s for a good colored line of Holstein heifers. Empty 20 months heifers £4 5s for a well done Jersey line and for grades from £3 3s to £3 10s, this class of cattle mooting a better inquiry, 2 year steers £1 11s Gd, £4 7s. £4 3s, £4 2s, £4, steers (coming 3 years) good, £6 IGs Gd, £6 12s 6d, £6 Is, £6 3s, £5 17s Gd, other lines £5 5s (3d, £5 2s Gd, £5, rough 3)- year steers £7 10s, and 3 year m call heifers £6 to £6 17s, 2 year colored heifers £5 16s, £5 ss. £5 2s Gd, £5, £1 17s, dairy cows £8 10s to £lO, fat heifers I£s i2s Gd and £6 3s, fat and forward cows £6 17s Gel, £6; 16s Gd, £G , s Gd, £G 3s, £5 17s Gd, £3, fat bullocks £lO, £9 12ft Gd, £9 ss, fat sheep £1 2s 9d, fat wethers £1 5s 3d, lat ewes £1 0s Gd, £l, forward ewes 17s Gd, 4 and G tooth .wethers £l, mixed 2-tooth l<s Gd, ewes in lamb 2,4, and 6-tooth £1 os, £1 3s, mixed ages £1 Is Gd, £l, f.m. 19s, 18s 3d, 17s Gd. hoggets 14s 9d, 14s, 13s, 12s Gd, 12s, 9s, 7s Gd.