COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10033, 2 May 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Co., Ltd., report as tollows:—Butter, separator 10J, dairy 9d to 9d per lb; cheese, best factory mediums, s£d to 5d per lb, Inaf 6£d to 7s 7d; dressed pork—70's to 90's 4d, 90's to 100's 3fd to 4c*, baconera 3d, choppers heavy 2d to2gd; our weekly pork sales held each Thursday during winter; eggs, 29 to 2s 2d, preserved Is 4d to Is Cd per dozen, scarce; bacon, factory sides 7d, rolls 7j|d, hams Bfd per lb; honey, 4d to 4£d per lb; beeswax, Is 4*l to Is 6d per lb; fungus, keen demand at s&d per lb; walnuts, s£d per lb; tallow, tins 24g per cwt. Cockerels 5s 6d for good bird?, small 3a to 3a 6d, table rousters 4s, table hens 3s 6d, small 2a to 2s 6d, ducks large 5a to 6s, small 3s.to 3s 6d per pair, turkey gobblers 9d per lb, hens 83 per !b live weight. Maiz?, 4s per bushel; wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 3J per bushel; barley feed, 3s 3J per bushel; barley, Cape 3s 6d per bushel; horse beans, 4s 6d to 4s 9d par bushel; partridge peas, 4s 6d to 5s per bu3hel; Prussian Blue peas, 5s 6d per bushel; barley meal, special quality £5 10j per ton; sharps, £5 15s per ton; Pollar, £5 103 per ton; bran, £4 53 to £4 10s per ton; chaT, oaten sheaf £4 15s to £5 5s per tan; hay, prime £3 15s to £4 per ton; sucrosine, £6 103 per ton; straw, wheaten £2 10s per ton; straw, oaten £2 Ys 6d per ton; linseed oil cake, genuine £l3 per ton ; oats, feed 2s 7d to 2s 8d per bushel; oats, Seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d, Algerians 3a per bushel; oast, crushed 2s 9d per buihel; machine dressed cocksfoot, 6£d to 7d per lb; farmers' dressed cocksfoot, 5d to 6d per lb; perennial ryegrass, 4s 6d to 53 per bushel; Italian ryegrass, 4s 3d to 4a 93 per bushel.

stock market. Messrs Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Eketahuna sale held yesterday:—There was a heavy yarding of both sheep and cattle, considerably more coming forward than were advertised. With the exception of good quality ewes and lamb 3 we have to report a dragging sale under the hammer. Quotations: Sheep: Good shorn lambs 7s 6d to 8s Id, cull lambs 4s to 5s lid, ewes in tood condition's 7d to 10s 6d, wethers 12s 4d to 13s 9d, cull ewes 3s 6d to 7s Id. Cattle: Empty forward cows-£1 12s to £4, heifers in calf £3 15s, aged cows 255, two 1 and 2yr steers £4 7s 6d, weaners to 38s 6d.

HORSE SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report Having held their horse s»le on Saturday last, at their Waipoua yards, when they offered a large number of all classes of horses. There was a large attendance and bidding throughout was fair. For horses showing a anything like quality there was good competition. Ihey quote:—Hacks, £4 103, £6 103, £lO 103, up t0,£14; draught mares and geldings, £4 10s, £ls, £ll ss, £l3, £ls, £22 to £25 103.