COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 65, 12 November 1914, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

NEWTON KING’S HAYMARKET REPORT. I had for my Haymarket sale on Saturday last, a full yarding of pigs. There was' a large attendance, all pens being keenly competed for at the following prices: Slips and weaners from 15s to £1 2s, small stores £1 3s 6d to £1 7s 6d, medium to good ditto £1 12s 6d to £2 Is, calves “2s 6d to 9s 6d, lions 2s to 2s 3d, ducks 2s 9d.

T. LAMASON’S WEEKLY REPORT. I have to report that I held my usual weekly sale last Saturday. Prices for poultry were firm, and vegetables in good demand. Suplpies for the latter were rather short, and prices consequently good. We quote: Hens from Is 10d to 2s 3d, roosters 2s 6d to 2s 9d, chicks 9d to Is 2d, ducks 2s 8d to 3s, turkeys 10s; cabbages Is 3d, cauliflower 2s 6d, rhubarb 6d, carrots 3s 6d potatoes 9s 6d, pollard 16s 6d, bran 9s Cd, oats 3s 4d, barley 4s 6d. AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLY. (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, November 11. The American visible supply of wheat is 116,160,000 bushels. The American Government estimate the winter and spring wheat at 892 million bushels. WHEAT PRODUCTION IN N.S.W. SPLENDID STATE AID.

(Received 10.3 a.m.) Sydney, November 12. Arrangements have been completed for throwing open in December 56,000 acres under the Government scheme for increasing the wheat production. Settlors are to be given a leasehold tenure, with liberal advances repayable on easy terms, the minimum price (4s) being guaranteed over all the wheat area cropped in excess of last year’s savings. The Government has also earmarked £250,000 to purchase seed wheat to distribute to farmers who, „ v inrr to the late drought, were unable to purchase for themselves thiough private channels. .

THE LONDON MARKET. ' (Received 12.15,. p.m.) London, November 11. Wheat is quiet and unchanged, with the tendency in buyers’ favor.