COMMERCIAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1918, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

; .. FARMERS' CO-OP. REPORT, Okaiawa.—Fresh conditioned cows £lO ifls to £ll 15s, store covva £.7 5s to £9 18s, empty heifers £5 10s to £7 7s, yearlings £3 15s to £5, springing 'heifers £lO to £l7, Jersey bulls 11 to 'Hi guineas. Elthani.—Fresh and forward cows £8 15s to £lO 10s, store cows £7 to £S Ms, yearling store £3 10s to £4 18s, yearling heifers £3 to £5 10, springing heifers £8 10s to £l2 10s. > Hawera,—Fat cows £l3 to £ls, fresh conditioned cows £lO 10s to £ll 103, store cows £7 to £!) 10s, empty heifers £5 10s to £7 os, yearling heifers £3 15s to £O, yearling steers £3 15s to £5 ss, Jersey bulls 12 guineas, Shorthorn bulls £l7 17s, Holstein bulls 12 guineas, springing heifers £8 10s to £l4 ss, hoggets 23s to 355, store wethers 25s 3d, ewes and lambs 28s Cd. Waverley Hoggets 335, fat cows £l3 10s, forward cows £9 10s to £lO 10s, store cows £5 10s to £8 lis,.empty heifers £6 12s, store bullocks £l2 Is to £lO 12s, yearling steers £6 as, mixed yearlings £2 14s to £4 10s, dairy cows £ll 10s to £l7, springing heifers £7 to £l3 10s, Shorthorn bulls £l7 to £22,, Jersey bulls £2l 10s. AUCKLAND STOCK MARKET, The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:— At our weekly Westfield dairy . and store sale on Thursday best dairy cows and heifers £l3 10s to £ls ss, others £lO 5s to. £l3 7s 6d, poorer £6 to £9 15s; forward empty cows, £lO 5s to £ll 'lss; store cows, £7 17s 6d to £9 15s; 3 <s ,to 3|-year steers made £l4 to £ls 10s; 2 to 3-year steers made £l4 to £ls 10s; 2 to 3-year sters, £9 10s to £ll ss; yearling to 2-year steers £5 15s to £9 ss; 18-month heifers, £0 10s; yearling bulls, sgns to lOJgns, according to breeding and quality; calves, £1 15s to £4 ss; aged ewes with lambs, £1 0s 6d to £1 7s 9d; Merino wethers, 18s to £1 4s 3d. At our Waiuku monthly sale on Saturday, best dairy cows sold at from £l4 to £ls 10s, others £lO 10s to £l3 15s, poorer £7 5s to £lO 7s 6d; best heifers £lO 10s to £l4 ss, others ■£7 5s to £lO 2is 6d; 3-year steers £ll 12s to £ll 16s; yearling to 2-year steers, £6 3s 6d to £7 18s; empty tieifera, £S 7s 6d; empty cows, £7 to £9 17s 6d; bulls, sgns, lOgns, to 17gns, according to quality; fat steers, £ls ss; fat cows, £ls; weaner pigs £1 12s to £1 17s. At our Pukekohe spring horse fair on Monday, best heavy draughts £32 to £4O, others £25 to £3l 10s; medium draughts, good £23 to £3O 10s, others £l6 to £22 15s; aged medium to heavy, £8 to £ls 10s; useful farm horses, £ll to £l6; good hack and harness sorts £lO 10s to £l7 ss, others £7 to £lO ss, weedy £3 10s to £6 10s; unbroken light horses, £5 to £7 10s. At our Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday, prime ox sold to £2 13s per 1001b, other £2 10s to £2 12s; cow and heifer beef, £2 6s to £2 12s; steers ranged in price from £l3 7s 6d to £22 17s Cd; cows and Iheifers from £8 2s Cd to £l9 2s 6d . Sheep were penned in shorter numbers and improved on last week's prices, in some cases from 2s to 3s per head, best heavy prime woolly wethers selling from £2 4s to £2 7s, medium to heavy prime £2 to £2 3s Cd; best heavy shorn wethers, £1 13s to £1 10s Cd; heavy prime ewes, woolly, £1 ISs to £2 3s 6d; best heavy shorn ewes, £1 Us to £1 13s fid; woolly hoggets, £>l 16s to £2 8s 3d; shorn ditto, £1 7s 9d; spring lambs are wanted, best making from £1 11a to £1 13s 3d: good lambs £1 5s to £1 10s 6d, smaller £1 Is to £1 4s 9d Calves: largo yarding, selling well. Runners, £6 10s to £9; 'heavy vealers £5 10s to £0 7a Od; medium £3 12s Gd to .£5 7s Od lifht £2 5s to £3 10s, small and fresh, dropped, Cs to £2 Is. Pigs penned in larjje numbers and sold well up to late rates. Choppers and heavy baconcrs, £G to £7 12s 6d; large porkers £3 12s to £5 10s, medium £2 18a to ■£3 lis, small £2 7s 6d to £2 16s; weaners, £1 10s to £2. HIDE AND.,TALLOW REPORT. Dalgety and Co. report:—We held our fortnightly sale of hides, tallow, and oddments on 25th October. Prices for hides, as compared with last sale, were about the same rate, while super calfskins showed a. slight increase. Tallow values were a shade better. Hides- Ox, heavy, 10id to 12y B d;.ox, medium, lOd to 12y s d; ox, light, 9»/ 8 d to lOSd; cow, heavy, Sgd to 10% d; cow, medium, 9d to 10% d; cow, light, 9d to 10M; cut. slippy and infenor, 7d to 10% - bull, stag, 7}d to 83d; yearhngs, 9%d to UJd; calf, "superior ISP to 22% d; calf, medium-good, 173 a to 21Ja.; calf, damaged, 6d to 18d. _ Tallow:—in casks, 33s to 38s 9d; in tins, etc., 27 s to 34s 6d. ■ Simdries.-horsehaiv, I0|d; cow tails, 6d to 7,Vd;" goatskins, la 3d to 3s 3d; pigskins;'Bd<to :Is. „ ■ ~LON.DON MARKETS. , ■..'■'■'"■'. ■..'..■ ,V £pndon,;,6ct._26,: ; Rubber.-Pam3s ld, : plaata|ipn,2s sd, T r ' i . :V ~;,„.,., ;,.], ; r.. T -