Messrs Lowes & Lorns' Stock and Produce Report for July.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2967, 3 August 1888, Page 2

Messrs Lowes & Lorns' Stock and Produce Report for July.

We report that at all our stock soles during the month, the yards have been well filled with all classes of stock, and with vsry few exceptions, all selling at good values, a fact mainly due to the abundance of grass throughout the district, and the figures for store sheep have been at least 2s a liiad in excess of the rates obtained for the corresponding month oi last year, but at the same time it muat be borne in mind that stock are in a much better condition this winter than last. All stores have sold relatively higher thun fat stock, being bought for turnips, with the hope of an advance in price at the end of the turnip feeding, The advance of late has been principally in owes in lamb, We sold during the month upwards of 6000 through the yards boaidns private transactions,'and the following are the figures obtained b'or priiue heavy fat wethers, calculated to weigh from 70 to 751bs, from lis 3d to 12s, and medium 10s Gd to list Gd, or 2d per lb, In fat ewes a few lines of very heavy weights reached 10s 6d, but the general figures have been from 8s Gd to 9s 6d; empty ewes of good quality were in active demand at.tho commencement ot tho month, and went as high as 9s, but fell a trifle towards the close of the sales,, Ewos in lamb according to quality, ranged from 7b Gil for medium, to 9s' Gd for really fine young ewes tfhile all ordinary soits reached from Gs Gd to 7s Gd, old ewes. 3s Gd to {is.

In hoggets the. entries at all sales have been limited, and;priccs) in consequence ruled high, good:'healthy hoggets ranging; from 6s Gd to Bs, a few exceptionally' fine lots going as high as 9s, ' Store wethers for turnips were eagerly competed for, all long wooled arid crossbred sorts'• selling freely from 10s to 11a,' smalt stores and half-breds ranging from 8s to 9s. In Cattle, ah appicciable riso took place, and the trade in all classes of cattle, especially, in stores, has been very brisk, our sales by auction alone totalling some four hundred head, including beef, of which we had some really fine samples, and whenever good, sold readily for the local and Wellington markets. Bullocks ranged from £4 10s to £G, cows £3 h to 14, heifers 50s to GOs, or for bullocks and cows 14s and 12s Gd per 1001b respectively. A demand set in for good store steeis, all well grown 3 and 4year olds making from GOs to 70s, 2| and 3-year olds ranging from 50s to GOs, eighteen months 35s to 40s, yearlings and calves 80s and 20s. All cows excepting quiet springers, have been difficult to quit at very low figures, storo cows ranging from 25s to 355, forward cows 50s, dairy cows, young and springing, for dairying purposes, ruled from £4 0s to £5 10s, Good forward speyed heifers were in demand at prices from 35s to 50s. In horses the markets h&ve been overdone with entries of all classes, but purchasers aro so wary of being victimised that the sales effected by auction have been very limited, although horses of a good stamp, either for cart, farm, buggy or saddle, in nearly every oaso found a purchaser; old crocks whether for saddlo or harness would not sell; for good farm mares or geldings wo have obtained £l2 toilS; medium £lO to £l2; light harness sorts, if young, £8 to £l2; good serviceable hacks £8 to £10; ordinary £4 to £G; old crocks unsaleable. In pigs the market has remained bare' all through the month, many orders being unfilled, a few lines of stores about 6 months old making 10a to 14s; wcanera Gs to Bs, good enquiry, In produce tho sales havo been tolerably active, oats firm with a tendency to rise, our quotations being for prime seed 2s od, and feed sorts to 2s 3d, In potatoes tho rise in price is due to the large and remunerative sales in Sydney, The southern markets rose from 2Ta at country stations at the commencement of the month to 60s towards the close of tho month, Advices gay still rising, In grass soeds the season for spring sowing has not yet opened. We sold a few paroels Cocksfoot, prime makin? 3|d lb, rye 2s 6d bushel. Carrots have been rather a drug, present prices 45s per ton, Onions,—We had several .consignments, and owing to the heavy stocks found them difficult to quit at 6s per owt. Peas moved off steadily at 3s 3d bushel.

In Poultry the supply has been excessive many lines being unsold. In fowls large good birds reached as high as JJs Gd and 2s 9d per pair, while ordinary sorts were dull at 2s, Very few turkeys camo into the market, those which came selling at Gs per pair,

Our galea iu fruit tree? during the

month lmve been very lnrg|Pmmense numbers from.'the; South- being loth innately and by auction, prices' in till cases being low, t