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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1916, Page 2

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GREAT RISE IN WHEAT. Likely to beach 8s 4d Australian-New Zealand Cable Association.—Copyright. New York; August 24 The Department of Agriculture says that wheat will probably reach two dollars a bushel owing to a severe black rust epidemic in the north and western fields doing unprecedented damage, Melbourne, August 25. Barley.—English, nominal 4s 3d to 4s Cd, Cape 3s to 3s 3d. Oats.—Milling Algerians 2s 3d to 2« 4d, feed 1 3 lOd to 2s. Potatoes. £6 to £7 5a Onions, £3 to £3 10s.' AUSTRALIAN MARKETS, Sydney, August 24. Oats—Algerian feeding, 2s 6d to 2s 7d; milling, 2s 8d to 2s 9d; Tasmanian white, 2s lOd to 3s. . Barley, 3s Cd to 4s. Maize, 3s 4d to 4s 3d. 'Potatoes—Tasmanian, £7 10s to £9. Onions, £4 to £5. Adelaide. August 24 Bran and pollard-^Unchanged. Oats, Is 9d to Is lOd. Melbourne, August 23. Hides—Small supplies. Lights and mediums are tomewhat firmer; heavies are not substantial and lights are dragSing in price. ELTHAM SALE The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report on their Eltham sale as follows:—Light fat cows £lO 19s to £ll 7s, fat heifers £8 6s to £lO Bs, dairy cows £7 las to £l2, forward cows £i» 12s Cd to £lO, fresh-conditioned cows £8 3s to £8 17s Od, good store cows £7 to £7 os, good store cows (small) £5 12? Cd to £5 18» 6d, store heifers £3 10a to £4 15s, springing heifers (best) £9 10s to £lO 15s, others ■£B 10s to £8 17s Cd, steers £9 15s, aged cows £3 10s to £4 15s, 20-montli steers £0 to ,£0 10s, . small yearling steers and bulls £? 4s to £3 las, forward hoggets 23s Od, store hogget 21s, store pigs 355, slips 15s to 20s.

ADDINGTON MARKET. Store. hoggetsr 20s, to 23s lOd, two and four-tooth ewes 2,5s lid to 3-1.3 Gd, four and six-tooth ewes 32s 3d, sound-mouth ewes 18* 9d. to 24a, aged ewes 17s, two and four-tooth wethers 22s 7d to 203 9d, four and six-tooth wethers 23s 2d to 2Ss. ' Fat sheep—Extra prime wethers to 40s, prime wethers 30s to 38s, others 21s to 29s Gd, prime wethers 27s Id to 345, others 9s lOd to 13s Od, prime ewes 2Ss to 33s 9d, medium ewes 24s to 275, others 17s fid to 23s Gd, merino ewes 12s 9d, hoggets 22s Gd to 30s. Fat cattle—Extra prime steers to£22, ordinary, steers £lO to £l4, extra prime heifers £l7, ordinary heifers £7 log to £l2, extra prime cows £2O os, ordinary cows £7 13a to £JMOs. \ Store cattle —Yearling? £2' 15s, 15 to IS-months £3 2s Gd, two-year heifers £3 7s Gd, three-year steers £lO, threeyear lieiters £7 7s Gd to £7 17s Gd, dry cows £3 as to £B, dairy cows £3 10s to £l2 15s, extra £l9. Pigs—Choppers £3 10s to '£s 13s, heavy baconers £4 10s to £5, extra heavy baconers £5 9s, light baconers £3 12s to £4 (price per lb, 7d to 7y 4 d); light porkers 4Gs to 50s, heavy porkers 52s to 58s (price per lb, 7%d to B'/ 8 d); large stores 4Ss to 03s 6d, medium 37s to 475, smaller 22s to 26a, weanera. Us to 24a. BtffiNSIDE MARKET. 'At Burnside 27a fat cattle wjrc penned. Owing to the large entry competition was less keen, prices showing a decline of 30s to 40s compared with last week. Extra prime bullocks £26, prime £l9 to £22, medium £lO to £lB, light £ll to £l4 10s, prime cows and heifers £l4 to £IG, medium £ll to £l3, light and inferior £8 to £9 10s. Fat sheep—The quality was very good and the entry was in excess of butchers' requirements, and as freezing buyers were operating to only a limited extent, prices declined;ls to Is Gd. Extra prime wethers 42s 3d, prime 34s fid to 38s, good 30s to 33s Gd, lighter 25s to 28s, unfinished 245, extra prime ewes 39s *d, prime 28s Od to 325, medium (good) 22s to 2as Od, others 18s to 21s. Lambs—Competition was good for I prime, while grazie'rs bought unfinished jat last week's rates. Extra, prime 30s, prime 23s to 265, medium 20s 6d to 225,' unfinished 19s Gd. There was an exceptionally small yard'ing of porkers. Baconers were in good demand, and sold readily at late rates. (Stores and weaners sold at an advance, on last week's prices.