COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 304, 22 December 1914, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

THE WHEAT MARKET. [United Fbess Association.] (Received 10.50 a.m.) Wheat is firm at a shilling advance owing'to the scarcity of offers. \ STRATFORD HIDE, SKIN AND WOOL AND TALLOW SALES.

W. M. BAYLY AND CO'S. REPORT

We held our usual monthly sale of above produce on Tuesday last. Owing to being only three weeks since pre : vious sale only a small quantity of produce was offered. Wool showed a decided drop of one penny to a penny half-penny. Sheepskins were also lower. Hides and calf skins were on a par with previous sale and keenly sought after. We quote:—Wool.—. Fleece wool in bags 8d to BJd per lb, dead wool 7d to 7jd per lb, locks and pieces 3j{d per lb, black wool 6Jd per 11). Sheepskins.—Butchers' full wools, average 151bs, 7jjd to 8d; butchers' pelts, average Übs, 4£d to 5d per lb; butchers' lambs GJd per lb; butchers' salted pelts 2s each; settlers' full wools 7:'{d per lb. Hides: Butchers' cow, average 491bs, B£d per lb ihutchers' cow average 391bs, B£d per lb; settlers' cow, average 301bs, 8d per lb. Calfskins.—Medium calf, average lilbs, ll£d per lb; do, 51bs, Is per lb; do., sslbs, lid per lb. Tallow.—Casks: Medium 20s per cwt; tins 18s 6d per cwt.

T. LAMASON'S WEEKLY REPORT.

Last Saturday wo had a record entry of poultry, geese and turkeys being the general order of the day, hens advanced on previous Saturday's sale. ] quote as follows:—Hen? Is to Is 9d, roosters Is 3d to 3s, ducks Is 9d to 2s 6d, cockerels 6d to 9d, geese 2s (">d to 3s Pd, turkeys, bens, small 3s 6d to 6s 6d, gobblers 6s to 12s, potatoes 6s (xl to 10s, cabbage 2s fid, cauliflowers 4s per doz. plums 3s to 4s per case, furniture nnd sundries at usual auction rates,