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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 29 August 1908, Page 6

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NEWTON KING'S REPORT. j At the Hay market on Saturday store pigs maue lis to £2, slips 8s Od, trap horse £l4, hacks X2 to £4 17s (id. At the mart there was an utisatistkd demand for poultry, and prices ruled high, heus making 2s 2d to 2s 7d cockerels Is lid to 4s 3d, ducks 2, to 2s Id. .Sundries made usual rates. 1 have some splendid fowls coming forward on Salur-! •lay (to-day), including 24 white Leghorn pullets (laying) and some prize: Minorcas. At Stratford on Friday last 1 he'd a clearing sale of dairy cattle on account ot Mr. W. Bonner. UVdigree Jerseys made .ti.'j 10s to £2l, plircbreds anil others ,C 7 to .Cl2 10s, backward ealver.s £3 to £0 15s. At Toko on Monday calves made Us (id to IDs Od, yearlings 21s to 225. 18montiis heifers 30s tkl to 35s Od, springing heifers £3 5s to £4 Ss, forward store cows 49s to £3 10s, 2'/ 3 -year bullocks £4. On account of Mr. S. (.(edge early calvers made £5 to £0 las, hue calvers £3 to C 4 15s. At my Stratford yards on Tuesday calves made lis Od to 18s, 12- to Idmonths steers 23s to 345, IS-inoiltlis heifers 20s to 375, 2- to 2'/,-year steers £4 os to £4 15s Od, store cow's £1 5s lo £3. In the dairy pens springing cows made £5 to £8 His, heifers £3 5s to' £ti "s Od, late and backward calvers £2 to £5 10s. The special line of Jersey bulls were not looking well, bong in rather poor condition. Top price rwalised was £2l. On Wednesday there was a fair attendance at the sale on account of Mr. E. Julian, Oakura. The cows were rather backward aud low in condition, but sold at full market rates, early calvers making £5 to £7 12s od, late do. £2 10s to £4 15s, bull £4 2s 0d: horse, trap and harness, £18; pony, j.4 ss. At Westowu on Thursday, the sale on account of Mr. J. U. Moutefiore was largely attended, with most satisfactory results. Ponies made £5 10s to £11; 10-months foal, £0 10s; store pigs, £1 6s to £1 las; turkeys, 8s; ducks, 2s, hens, 3s 2d. Furniture, etc, sold well. VICKERS & STEVEN'S REPORT. Messrs. Vickers & Stevens report that there was a largo entry of cattle in their Inglewood yards ou Wednesday, there being a large elltry of springers, the best of which sold well, but old and backward ones were hard to quit. Year-1 lings made 15s to £1 4s Od, empty heifers £1 12s Od to £2 lis, store cows £1 5s to £2 Bs, backward springers £2 5s to £3 10s, good springers £4 to £0 15s. ' At. Mr. H. Wilson's clearing sale on Monday cows made from £2 2s (id to £6 10s, calves £1 4s, roan mare £24 10s, and the farm was sold to Mr. J. Neilsen. WEBSTER.BROS.' REPORT. On Saturday we had a big entry of poultry of all kinds, and prices showad j a decided upward tendency. Fowls made Is lid to 2s Gd, pullets 2s 2d to 3s 4.1, late chicks Is Od, roosters Is to Is KM, ducks Is 8d to .Is Ud. A large consignment of trees sold at usual prices. JENKINS, MATTHEWS & PIGOTT'S REPORT. | On Thursday last we held a clearing sale for Mr. James Perry at Urenui and had a good attendance of buyers, everything realising satisfactory prices. Tin dairy cows averaged £5 (is lid per bead. The Naw Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., have received the following cable from their London' oflice. dated 27th August,— "Sheepskins sales open on 10th September, and we anticipate market will be Ann."

AUCKLAND STOCK .MARKET. The, New Zealand Loan ami Mercantile Agency" Company, Ltd.. report: — Horses.—At the Durham yards on Friday horses of all descriptions were yarded in average numbers, but competition was not so keen as the previous week. Heavy draughts sold at from £2B to .t'37'los: medium do.; ,t'2l 15s to £32; hacks and light harness hors-is, £8 10s to £2l 3s: spring-cart, £lO. Cattle.—At the Newmarket yards on Tuesday dairy and store stock were varded in usual numbers and sold at late rates. The beef pens were well filled with mostly light weights of good quality, which sold under keen competition at last week's prices, oxen selling to 2lis per llinlli.. and cows up to 21s to 24s per 10011.. Steers sold at frtm £0 10s to £l2 10s: cows, £4 10s to .tit; dairy caws, £3 Ills to £7 ss: empty cows. C2 2s (id to £2 Ills; calves, 17s to £1 Bs. Most of the averages of fat oxen were over £lO. Sheep.—There was a full yarding of sheep at Newmarket on Tuesday, which sold under stead v competition at late rater.. Wethers realised from 13s to £l os. which price was realised for one small pen; ewes, 13s Ud to 10s; hoggets, 13s (ill to £1 Is; spring lambs, lfls to 17s; store wethers. Vis (id to 15s; do., hoggets. 7s lid to 13s 6d. Pigs.—Porkers sold at from £1 Is to £1 18s; weaners, 3s Ud to 8s; bacooers, £2 Is to £3 os. WAIKATO STOCK SALES. The Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company report:—At Ohaupo last Tuesday week we had a large yarding of sheep, 800 store cattle, and 100 dairy cows and heifers. There wa3 a good attendance and a good inquiry for store cattle, but sheep .showed little improvement. We quote:—Fat and forward 3Vi-year and 4-year steers, £6 5s to £7 8s; same age steers, less condition, £5 10s; 2'/ s -year steers, £4 5s to £4 !)s; 18-month* and 2-year steers, £3 3s to £4; yearling steers, extra choice, £2 lis; others, in low condition, 3Bs to £2 2s; younger sorts, £l 5s to £1 13s Oil; fresh-conditioned empty cows, £3 is; springing cows and heifers, close to profit, £5 to £7 ss; more backward sorts, £2 10s to £4; fat wethers, £1 2s (id; store wethers, 13s Oil to 10s; woolly hoggets, 10s !)d; others, (is (id to 8s Oil; empty two-tooth ewes, 10s Oil: fresh full-mouth ewes, in lamb, lis to 12s Gd;'l4oo sold. At the Waihou yards on the 21st inst. we yarded 004 bead of store cattle, SO fat cattle, 70 springing cows and heifers, and 070 sheep. The fat cattle were required and sold readily, fat steers realising £7 4s -to £8 IDs; fat heifers and cows, £5 to £0 10s; 3-year store steers, off turnips. £5 0s to £5 12s; 2-vear steers, £3 10s to £4; 18-monlh steers. £2 15s to £3 2s fid: really good steer calves and yearlings. £2 to Zi 3s; mixed calves of a good class, :10s to 355; smaller sorts 20s to 2!is: 2-year heifers, 43- to 30s; fresh empty cows. £3 5s to C 4 ss: best dairy cows and heifers, £5 Ills 1o £8 ss; morn back ward sorts, £4 to £5; fat wethers, 15s to 20s; forward ewes, lis; fat hoggets. I4s; store hoggets, 10s 3d; ewes in lamb. 13s.

CHBISTCHI'RCH STOCK MARKET. At the Addington live stock market on Wednesday there was a large entry of stock and a irood attendance. Fat cattle sold at about hist week's rates. Store hoirgets showed an improvement: other sorts .were unchanged. Till lambs showed no change: fat sheep were rather firmer. Store cattle and dairy cows were .bill of sale. l>ig., sold well. The carding of store -beep was much smaller than last week, hoggets forming the bulk. There was a better inquiry for hoggets, and they recovered to the extent of about (id per head. Forward sorts sold up to l:ts '.id. down hoggets His 2.1. medium sorts lis (i I t<i"]2s <>d. smaller Ss (id to '.ls (id. Til" e.wes were mostly of a useful cla>s and sold at previous week'.- rales. There was no change in wether-. There was a small entrv of fat begets and lambs, ami they -old at the previous week's prices, boggets making 13s !ld to ISs ltd. and young lambs 15s to Ifls. The carding of fat sheep was not ni large as last week, and the general quality was not up to such a high standard. The market showed a -light advance, several export buyers opcratinir freelv. and the scarcity of ewes compelled the l.utchers to compete Willi lie. exporters for wether-. I'rime wethers l'l.-s to L'.'.'s (id. extra 1.. ->.%. medium 17- to ISs (id. lighter II- (id i» His lid. prime ewes 17s iid to ills, extra to 22,,

medium Us Cd to 17s, aged and light lis Cd to 14s, prime merino wethers i 14s to 15s Oil, lighter 12s 3d to 13s Od. j The yarding of fat cattle totalled ;JS!) j and included a large number of useful lines, hut the general quality was not equal to that of the last iew weeks' yarding*. The market opened at a slight advance, hut afterwards eased oil to last week's level. Prime beef made 24s to 28s, medium 21s Od to 28s (>d, ami cow and inferior 18s to 21s per lUtllb. Steers Cti 2s Od to £ll ss, heifers £.5 His to .CIU •"»>>, cows £4 17s (id to .010 12s Od. Veal calves formed the usual yarding and sold at 4s lid to 37s (id. A small mixed entry of store cattle met with a dull sale. Two-year steers C;i 12s lid, 21/k-year steers tit C 4 10s. £• year heifers to .112 15s, dry cow* 2i).s t"j t O. The dairy cows were a poor lot, and there was little demand at l'roin J-3 to £B. . . £ There was a moderate yarding of pigs and a good demand was manifested for all descriptions, fats being equal Lo lid per lb. A Duuedin buyer was operating in stores and improved the prices for thesv. Haconers made sl)s to 555 ? large up to 70s, choppers to t!l) lOs, ]>orkers 35s lo 475, large stores 34s to 3!l- lid. medium 24s to 275, weauers ISs tu 235, sows in -pig (which were ill keen demand) £4 15s to £0 17s Ud. IHXEDIX STOCK UAIiKET. At the lSurnside stuck market on Wednesday 14)3 cattle were yarded. Wood quality cattle were firmer, medium being about the same as last week, llest bullocks .€lO to XII 10s, extra to £l2 10s. medium to good CO 5s to .ClO, inferior ,C 7 10s to ,C 8 an, best cows and heifers .€8 to CS 10s, extra £0 12s Ud, medium .CO 10s to i:7 10s, inferior £5 to .Co 15s. Fat sliee]).—'2s3o yarded, exclusive of 200 hoggets. Exporters operated freely to the extent of their limits, and prices for freezing weights were lirm at late rates. Heavy weights showed a tendency to be easier. Best wethers 20s to 235, extra 24s "to 2ys, medium 17s fid to 19s, inferior los to 10s Od; best cwjs 17s to 10s, medium 13s to 14s Od, inferior 10s to lis Od; best hoggets His to 17s, medium 13s 0d to 14s -od, :n----ferior 12s to 13s. Pigs.—los yarded. Porkers and haconers were very slightly easier. Suckers los -to 18s, slips 10s 'to 245, stores 28s to 335, porkers 38s lo 435, light liaeouel's 30s to 48s, heavy baconers 50s to 02s, choppers to 00s. ■TO-DAY'S PItODLCE KATES. I El fiNO Pbices. I Dealers offer for farm produce:—

Butter, factory, in rolls 1 „ dairy „ Cnecse, factory „ dairy Bacon Hams Eggs, per doz Cash Bctail Selling Prices. ». 1 10 n 04 8 84 10 u. 4 11 8 8 0 0 0 0 9 9 U 0 e 3 0 0 0 0 6 6 6 6 Batter, factory, per lb. „ dairy Cheese, factory, per lb ... „ dairj Eggs, per doz. Bacon, per lb. Hams Flour, roller, 1001b Flour, 5011)3 Flour, 2olb Oatmeal, 251b bag Oats, white, per bushel . „ Duns „ „ Oats, crushed „ Barley „ Maize, nominal Wheat Beans Beans, crushed Pollard (sack) Bran (sack) Potatoes, per cwt ... 1 1 1 1 . 13 . 6 , 3 . 1 . 3 . 3 . 3 . 4 . C . 5 . 6 . 6 . 17 . 11 . 6