COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 343, 20 September 1898, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Waikato Argus Office. Monday. MR W. J. HUNTER'S CAMBRIDGE SALE. When the time for Mr Hunter's special sale approached on Saturday there were very few probable buyers in the neighbourhood of the yards, and a very dull sale was anticipated. However, it is usually the unexpected that happens, and the sale turned out a good one after all. The yards were well filled with a number of good young animals, and buyers for them turned up. The following are the prices realised :—Two and two-and-a-half-year-old steers, 47s 6d ; yearling steers, 32s 6d ; yearlings, mixed sexes, 26a ; low conditioned calves, 16s to 235; dairy cows, up to £4 10s ; fat cows, £4. The sale was a moat successful one, the whole of the cattle being locally bred and the buyers also purely local. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Mr J. Jones' Weekly Report.— Butter, 7d to 10d ; eggs, 6£d to 7d ; cheese, 5d lb ; bacon, 5d to 6d ; rolls, 3d to 6d ; middles, 4d to 7d lb. Poultry : Roosters, Is 9cl to 2s 6d ; hens, Is 6d to Is lid ; turkeys, 2s Ud to 3s 3d ; gobblers, 5s to Ss 3d ; ducks, Is 6d to Is lOd ; geese, 3s to 3s 5d ; pigs. 8s 3d to 14s 7d ; potatoes, £7 to £7 10s ; Port Paries, 7s to 7s 6d ; kidney, 7s to Ss 3d ; onions, to lsd ; pumpkins, 4s to 7s 3d ; kumaras, 7s to 83 3d ; carrots, Is 6d ; cut oats, 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; maize, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; bran, 4s to 4s 3d ; sharps, 5s : chaff, £4 JOs to £4 15s ; mandarins, 83 to 10a 6d, inferior 6s to 7s ; passion fruit, 5s 6d to 8s 3d case ; lemons, 4d to s£d dozen ; (Jape gooseherries, to 4d. Mr Richard Arthur's Weekly Retort. —Business during the week has been good. Southern table potatoes, £7 to £8; local do., £6 to £7; Derwent seed, 5s to 6s 6d ; pumpkins, 6s to Ss ; white carrots, 25s to 30s ; red do, Is 9.1 to 2s ; onions, ljd to Ijd ; bran, 3s 9d to 4s ; sharps, 4s 9d to 5s ; wheat, 3s 9d ; barley, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; feed oats. 2s 8d to 2s lOd; seed oats, 3s 2d to 3s 4d ; maize, 3a. Large supplies fre3h cut vegetables to hand, demanding good prices. Fresh butter, 8d to 9d ; eggs, to cheese, 4d to 5d ; Southern bacon, 6f d to 7d ; do. hams, S|d to 9d ; local bacon, 5d to 6jd ; do. hams, 6cl to 7d ; honey, 2£d to 3d ; table roosters, Is 9d to 2s 7d ; fowls, Is 2d to 2s ; ducks, Is 6d to Is lid ; geese. 2s 6d to 3s; turkey hens, 2s 6d to 3s; do. gobblers, 4s 6d to 6s 9d ; pigs (small), 5s 6d to 12a. Messrs Alex. Aitken and Co.'s Report.—Steady sales hive been the rule during the past week. Potatoes came into bad hands and fell rapidly. Onions very firm. Kumaras aud pumpkins same as last report. Maize and chaff short stocked. Flour and bran easier. The Dairy Association has forced down butter values by dropping 2d per Jb., otherwise it is still scarce and would certainly have retained late quotations. Eggs firm again. Fruit scarce and dear. Poultry and pigs selling well at last week's rotes. Pork in great demand. I quote : Potatoes—Canterbury £7, local Hobart 6s, Canterbury seed kidneys Ss 6d to 9s 6d, Hobart seed 6s to 6s 9d, new kidneys ljd to 2d lb, Rocks ljd ; onions, Globes £l6, locals 15s, 'Frisco 16s ; kumaras, £8 ; pumpkins, £8 to £8 10s, wauted ; swede turnips, 40s to 45s petton, wanted ; carrots, white £1 5s to £1 10b ton, red 355, slcav ; oats, firm, ex store, 2s 9d, c.i.f. 2s 6kl; hay, oaten, £5 to £5 15s ; maize, 2s lOd to 3s ; bran, £3 17s 6d ; sharps, £5 ; chaff, £4 10s to £5 ; butter, prime dairy 9d to 9Jd, factory rolls IOJd, bulk Sid to 9£d, medium dairy B|d, kegs (pastry) 7d to 8d ; eggs, 6£d to I\A ; bacon, 6Jd to 7d, farmers' to s£d ; hams, B£d, farmers' 6£d to 7d ; cheese, to Sgd, farmers' to 4d, wanted ; "apples, local, 401 b cases, best dessert, 9s 6d to 13s 6d ; Tasmanian, 9s 6d to 143 ; dried, 3|d to 4d lb ; honey, bulk, 2d to 3d ; sections, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; lemons, 4d to 7d per drzen, 5s 3d to 6s case ; mandarins, 7s 6d to 8s 6d. Oranges : Tahitis, 7d doz., to arrive 23rd: Poor Man's 9s to 10s 6d case; St. Michael's, 5s to 6s 6d; Sydney, 5s 6d to 63 6d case. Bananas, lfd lb; bunches, Is 3d to 2s 3d ; pineapples, 3s to 4s doz., 8a case; passion fruit, 3d dozen ; Sydney, 7s 6d case ; Cape gooseberries, 4jd lb ; shaddocks, Id lb ; tree tomatoes, to 3|d lb; hothouse, 6d to 7|d ; walnuts, 4-id to 5d lb, scarce ; peanuts, 2jd to 2fd ; charcoal, 3s to 3a 6d sack ; hares, Is 6d to Is 9d each, wanted: rabbits, la 3d to Is 6d pair. Poultry: Roosters, Is 6d to 2s 6d; mixed, Is 5d to 23 each ; hens, Is 4d to 28 ; cockerels, Is 5d to Is lOd ; ducks, poor, Is 3d to Is 9d ; fat, 2s; ducklings, 4d to 9d ; turkey gobblers, 3s 6d to 5s 6d ; hens, 2a 6d to 3s; geese, 2s 6d to 3a, wanted. Pigs, suckers, none ; wean era, 8a 6d to 9s 3d each ; 10 weeks, 10s to 16s ; pork, 3Ad to 4d lb, according to quality, wanted. HAWERA MARKETS. The Egmont Farmers' Union report: At Stratford, on the 9th iust., the yards were well filled with cattle, mostly young stock. Bidding for all classes was more animated than of late resulting in most of the stock changing hands before leaving the yards. We quote : Fat cow 3, £3 to £3 10s ; two and a-half to three year-old steers, £2 12s 6d to £3 53 ; 12 to 18-months steers, £1 Gs to £1 12s 6d ; empty cows, £1 Is to £1 17s 6d ; dairy cows and heifers, £2 5s to £4 : yearlings, 17s 6d to £1 4s 6d ; weaners, 7s 6d to 14s 6d. Sheep : Fresh forward ewes, 8s 6d to 8s 9d ; four-tooth ewes, 7s to 7a 6d. NEW ZEALAND DRUG COMPANY'S MANURES. Kempthorne, Prosskr & Co. s (New Zealand Drug Company Limited) Westfield Manures Price List, season 1898 :—- Per ton. •'A" Superphosphate (total phosphates, 40 per cent. ; soluble, 32/34 percent. ; ammonia, U- percent.) £5 2 6 "B" Superphosphate (total phosphates, 31 per cent. ; soluble, 26 per cent.), 2cwt. sacks ... .. .. ..436 " C " Superphosphate (total phosphates, 46 per cent.; soluble, 15 per ceut.), 2cwt. sacks 4 9 0 Bonedust (pure), green 7 5 0 Bonedust (pure), steamed ... 7 5 0 Bonedust and Blood 6 10 0 Special Root Manure .. .. 7 5 0 Special Grass Manure ' A ' (for top dressing) 6 15 0 Special Grass Manure ' B ' (for permanent pasture) .. .. 6 15 0 Special Potato Manure 7 0 0 Special Turnip Manure .. 6 15 0 Special Rape Manure .. .. G 15 0 Special Corn Manure ' A ' (for green feed) G 15 0 Special Corn Manure ' B ' (for wheat, oats, barley, etc,) .. G 15 0 Special Maizo Manure ' A ' (for green feed) 7 0 0 Special Maize Manure ' B ' (for cob maize) 7 0 0 Special Orchard Manure ' A ' (for young trees) .. .. 7 10 C Special Orchard Manure ' 15 ' (for fruit formation).. .. 7 10 0 Special Clover Manure.. .. 6 15 t Special Onion Manure.. .. 7 10 0 Sulphate of Ammonia .. ..M00 1 Special Sugar-beet Manure .. 0' 10 0 ■

per ton. Coral Queen Guano, 2cw't. sacks, 63 per ceut. phosphate of iimo 4 15 0 Kainit, original sacks about 2 owt 4 10 0 Per cwt. Nitrate of Soda (original sacks about 2owt.) 14 0 Muriate of Potash (original sacks about 2c\vt.) 16 0 Sulphate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt \S 0 Sulphate of Iron, original sacks about 2cwt 10 0 Per bag. Special Garden Manure, 14lb bags I 6 Fowl Grit, 141 b bags, coarse, medium or fine .. .. 16 Vitaflor for Pot Plants, lib tins 0 6 Pifcount less 2\ per cent, for eash. Prices subject to alteration without notice. Previous lists now cancelled. Aucklaud, 29th June, 1898.