Commercial.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43114, 6 July 1907, Page 3

Commercial.

7T nroo K *^ re< i Buclland and Sons report.— 8 ' the Hay market on Friday last £.12 ra^o® 011 ai ox P reS3 fO’ts sold at from *« j '“ » a pair of roan geldings realised ,; fa ”l 3 P a j r of hay mares £7O; lighter -10 s t/f io to A 2B 10s ’ a S cd draughts, £l4 }. an i no 8 tos ; light harness horses and I n-v.l. i ' a P ¥ar<^s ; Courtland waggon, £2l; t'ght trap, £l2 log. n Saturday wo held a clearance sale at Mr w°r e ’ s ’ Bukekohe East. There was a _ + a ttendance. The ewes realised from 16s to ia s 6d; lambs, 10s 6d to 10s 9d ; cows, ss. to £7 10s ; heifers, £2 to £2 10s; horses, £lO to £25 ; hay, £3 10s ton; imP w eD ir an< * sua dries, satisfactory prices. e had a large yarding of both cattle end weep at ClevedonOn Saturday. Cattle sold i ° Prices. Sheep were required and e }y competed for. Dairy cows made from to £G 10s ’ heifers in calf, £2 12s Cd . c ** Gd ; empty cows and heifers, £1 if 8 *° £2 15s ; fat cows, to £5 2s ; 18month to two-year-old steers, £2 12s to £3 is ; strong calves, 19s to £1 5s ; others, 10s 0 s Ihe advertised ewes in lamb brought to £l Is 6d ; aged ewes, 10s 6d rat wethers, 17s 6d to £1 ; hoggets, , s . ,Lincoln rams, £1 15s; bay mare, 15s ; .black mare, £lO. At Remuera on Thursday dairy cows sold from £3 10s to £8 10s ; dry £2 to £3. Eat and .young calves were in demand at from 2s o£2 13s, 90 sold. There was a full muster et fat cattle, all light weights. Piices were hrm at 22s per 1001 b for ox beef, cow, 15s to io’ ranged in price from £6 to £lO

12s Gd; cows, £3 10s to £8; 350 sold, toineep came forward in average numbers and o-oli-v values > best wethers selling to 2/s 3d, lighter weights to 21s, heavy ewes to 225, others to 18s ; hoggets, 8s Gd to 17s 9d, quality. Ewes in lamb sold up o s 3d, 1760 sold. Pigs, penned in usual numbers, sold freely throughout, porkers selling to 355, baconers to £3 7s ; no small yarded, 60 sold. Poultry, Is Id to Is Sd.

THE BUTTER MARKET. EXTRACT FROM MILLS AND SPARROW’S LETTER, LONDON, DATED 17th MAY, 1907.

You will note on the market report which we are sending out to-day, that all best butters are selling up closely. Danish is if anything in short snpply, and very serious Competition comes up between the tinners, who at this season of the year buy fair stocks and tin for the year’s consumption, and the buyers who buy for this side, then we would not be at all surprised if there was a slight advance during the next week, but this is of course problematic, The fact is, that Danish butter, particularly the choicest, is selling well,. and is wanted. The same applies to Siberian butter, to Irish and the choicest quality of French. In fact, all best butters are clearing, the only difficulty being with anything of a secondary character ; these are accumulating, and we fear quite a quantity _will be put into cold store and must of necessity be held over during the'summer unless very low prices are accepted, because the ordinary trade to-dav are not taking these butters to put oyer the counter, the fresher mage butters being more popular, so that if these butters had to be sold they would have Ito be sold to speculators, who would in theif I turn hold them over for some favourable I market. Whether holding these butters over I wul be advantageous or not is of course cpiite lan open question, as it is impossible for anylone to say just how the make in Siberia will Iba, or what quantity will be produced in IJJrance, Ireland or at Home. Everything at ■the present moment, however, points to a I good make, and we should say given a fair ■season that there will be increases in the make liu the countries we have mentioned over last ■year, on the oilier hand we have to put ■against this, mere is unquestionably an in-■creu.'-ed consumption going on, and the consumption of ou 'ter by the middle and lower ■cla-scs is increased year by year and pretty ■ugl ily ; the reason of this we think is pretty Ki.idc.n, v:z., Inal with all the facilities for f j!d storing and the extra care which is now ■being taken of the butters by the agents and ■ijt the purcimsers, tends to make the butter Bnorc- popular, and more is eaten because it fcers to the table in better condition, and has |>f necessity a very much better and more ■miatable flavour than when, as in the old s,.it was left lying about for days, weeks, ■md in soma cases months. Take our own Base, for example—we sell a man twenty, ■‘’ rt y or fifty boxes, as the case may bo ■they are kept in cur cold store, he has them ■iome two or three at a time as he wishes, ■nd he only puts them on the counter from ■ur store as he wants them, and they are not ■flowed to deteriorate in any way; .this is Becoming each year more and more the Bi'-ton; amongst the retailers, so that though Bf course there is a limit to all things we Biok for a still further increase in the conBirnption of butter, and we see no reason why larger quantities should not be required Br the near future. ‘ l