DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2223, 4 July 1891, Page 4

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Prime milling velvet and 1 tuscan, 4s 7d to 4s 8d; good average parcels, 4s 5d to 4s 6£d; best red wheats, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; medium, 4s 2d to 4s 3d ; chick wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 8d —sacks weighed in, terms. Oats —Is lOd to Is lid ; Canadians, 2s; inferior and long oats, Is 9d; bags weighed in. Local rates are as under: Prime milling Sutherlands, Is 6d ■; extra choice to Is heavy feed, Is od to Is s£d; ordinary feed, Is 4d to Is 4£d; inferior and damp, Is 2d to Is 3d; sacks extra, ex store.

Barley—Prime malting, 3s to 3s 3d; second quality malting, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; feed and milling, 2s to 2s 3d (bags extra, ex store). Grass Seeds For best-dressed perennial ryegrass seed. 5s 6d to 5s 9d; medium, 5s to 5s 3d; farmers' best dressed, 3s 9d to 4s 3d; medium, 3s to 3s 6d.

" " Potatoes ■— For really first-class samples purchasers do. not object to pay 45s per ton or even a little more, but refuse to give more than 35s or 40s for the quality generally offering. Inferior potatoes are almost unsaleable.

Chaff—Prime oaten sheaf, 455; extra choice lots to 47s 6d ; medium to good, 40s to 6d ; inferior, 30s to 37s 6d per ton.

Dairy Produce ■ — Factory cheese (medium), 4£d to 4fd; loaf, 5d to dairy made, 3|d to 4d per lb. Butter, primest salt, 8d; good, 7d to per lb.

Sheepskins—Quotations : Butchers' green crossbreds (best, 5s to 5s 6d ; medium, 4s 8d to 4s lOd; inferior, 4s 3d to. 4s 6d; green Tnerinos, 3s 3d to 4s; country skins, Is 6d; for light, up to 6s Gd for full woolled crossbreds. Hides—Prime well flayed ox, from 551 b to 751 b, 2£d to 3£d, according to weight and quality; average weight country lots, to 2£d; medium do, 2d; light, to If d per lb. Tallow Prime mutton tallow (scarce), 19s to 20s; second quality, 17s 6d to 18s; good mixed, 16s to 17s; inferior to medium, 12s to 14s 6d ; best clean caul fat, 13s to 13s 6d ; butchers' rough fat, 9s to 12s per cwt.

Wool—Locally there is an odd small lot or two offering, the same commanding a good competition.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was transacted : Fat Ccittle representing all grades of quality, with a fair proportion of good to prime beef. Trade on the whole was rather more in favor of buyers. Prime bullocks brought £8 to £8 10s; extra prime, £9 to £9 7s Gd; medium to good, £6 10s to £7 ss; light, £5 10s to £5 15s; cows and heifers, proportionate rates.

Fat Sheep—The supply of mutton to-day was rather above the average in quantity, 2518 sheep being penned. The sale opened at prices about Gd per head below those of last week, and at the close a drop of quite Is per head had to be accepted. Prime wethers, 16s 6d to 18s 3d; average weight, 15s 6d to 16s; medium, 14s 6d to 15s; light, 13s 6d to 14s; best ewes, 14s to 15s 9d; others, 10s 6d to lis 6d; merino wethers, 6s 3d to 13s. Pigs—There was again a limited entry of pigs to-day—lso being penned. Prices for suitable lines being rather higher than last week. Prime baconers brought 38s to 455; medium weights, 30s to 355, porkers, 20s to 28s; stores, 14s to 21s ; suckers, 5s to Bs.

Store Cattle —For oattle of this class buyers arc not quite as keen as they were a short time since, as the supply of beef at the Burnside yards has rather increased than otherwise during the last fortnight. For younger ages and mixed sexes there is very little enquiry. Store Sheep—Good hoggets command a ready sale at from 10s to lis per head ; inferior to medium sorts, 9s to 9s 6d.