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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 October 1907, Page 3

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THE HIDES .MARKET. c Received Oct. ltth, 0-5 a.m. Melbourne, October 10. I For hides, good conditioned, the mar- i kct is firm. Housed lots were a farthing lower. LOCAL MARKETS. In the poultry market there is still an unsatisfied demand for good laying and table fowls. Good prices arc obtainable for anything of fair average uuality. Farm produce shows little alteration. All cereals remain firm at last week's rail's. There are indications of a further rise in oats. Each, s. D. s. D, Hens ... 1 9 to 2 3 Cockerels ... 1 11 to 2 3 Roosters ... 1 7 to 2 3 Pullets ... 2 3 to 2 0 Ducks ... 1 9 to 2 10 Broods of ducklings 6 0 to 10 0 Dressed poullry is selling at last week's rates : Fowls 5s pair, ducks Cs pair, turkeys 7s Gd each BL'YiSQ Pmces. Dealers offer for farm produce : D. Butter, factory, in rolls 1U „ dairy „ 8 Cneese, factory 7 „ dairy 0 Bacon 7 Hams 1\ Eggs, per doz 10 Retail Trices. s. D. Butter, factory, per lb. 1 1 ~ dairy „ 0 10 Cluese, factory, per lb ... 9 „ dairj ~ 8 Eggs, per doz. ... 11 Bacon, per lb. ... 0 9 Farm produce. S. 1). Flour, roller, loolb ... 1H Flour, s()lbs ... ... 7 II Flour, 2511 i ... ... 3 8 WUeatmeal, 251b bag ... 3 0 Oatmeal, 251b bag ... 4 (! Oats, white, per bushel ... 4 0 „ Duns ~ „ ... 4 (I Oats, crushed „ 4 3 Barley „ ... 4 0 Maize „ a 0 Wheat 5 0 Beans 5 0 Beans, crushed 5 6 l'ollard (sack) 14 0 B-au (sack) ... ... 'J (i .Sometimes one man's failure is a lesson to the world. A certain barren farm, a few tumbledown buildings, a mortgage that outlived life, are allth.it remain to mark the failure of a. dairyman through using his hands instead of bis head. llow about you? Are von sweating, saving, standing losses to-day that you don't need to stand? Don't try to r.l w> the mortgage with your back, do it with your brain. Don't trust to your skimming-pans, those dairy thieves that steal your profits, but buy an "Alfa-Laval" Cream Sepa- ' rator. It's use marks the difference' I between cow profits and cow losses. Don't be put off with a "just as good." liutter-fat is too valuable to waste. I Cash or easy terms. Order to-day; delay means so much money lost. ' Catalogue T free on application. Sole New Zealand Agents, Mason, Struthers & flo Ltd., Main street, Palmerstor . Nnrlh. K. Griffiths and Co., New Plymouth, local agenU.