COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4790, 3 August 1894, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

A. G. Taine and Co. report on the markets for the week endine August 2nd.

Fat Sm:m\-Kcen, unsatisfied demand, and increasing. All comingforward, eagerly snapped up, butchers short of supply. Prime wethers, heavy weights, have sold up to 16s; medium, 13s fid, 14s fid; light, lis to 12s.

Fat Ewes,—l2s Cd to 12s 6d for 1 good weights. Stoiie Wethers.—Selling freely, lis Gd to 12 Gd for very fresh; 9s Gd to 10s fid for ordinary stores. _ HooGws.-Havo placed all offering and demand for mora at up to 8s Gd for good lots; 6s to 7s for medium ; even culls are selling now. Fat CAmK.-We can place all offering at market values up to 19s 100 lbs.

STORE Catm. Good demand, havo sold everything, weaucrs up to 26s 6d; yearling, 40s j 2-ycav-old steers, £3; 3-year-old steel's, £4 to £4los. Dairy cows, big demand, cannot supply half of it, Wo held a clearing sale of dairy cows and plant on Mr Bnrbidge's farm, LowerHutt, on the Ist August, ■There was a large attendance of buyers, more than we.havo seen present at a dairy sale for many a day, showing that dairying is tho coming industry. Wo havo orders on our hooks for a large number of cows and heifers, Wo sold 20 young cows just calved and close to calving at £lO ss, £B, £7los, £7 ss, £7, £6 15s, £6 10s, £6 5s and £6, the averago for 20 young cows being £7 5s and the averago for 30 cows being just £6, a very good record indeed, Aged cows, a few of thomheingvery old, brought from £3 to £4 15s, 1 cross-bred bull £2 15s, calves £1 7s I 6d, aged trap horses £2 and £2 10s, traphorso £6; youngducksatSsperi pair; si. plough £2lss; milk re-j frigerator, £2lss; stack oaten hay, ■ £5 j meadow hay, £110s; 20 milk cans at 5s each, An outside lino of dairy heifers, coming to calve, sold for Lslos nnd Lslss,

Horses,-Wo hold our weekly ] horso sale on Saturday. Thoro was again a small entry. A fair demand j exists for good young express and and light harness horsps, but not for high priced draughts. We sold useful aged draughts at £l3 to £l4 j 3 ycar-qld colts, half draught, £ll lQs j hacks £6 15s ; good, ; light harness horses £l4 and £l2los.

Sheepskk>*6.—Plenty offering but

buyors nro shy and havo to be coaxed to give anything like value. Prices remain firm. , - Tamow, 18s to ,20s for best, medium 15s to 16s.' Grain.—Milling wheat no business,'fowl wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; oats, quiet, Is 4d to Is 10|d, for best. Potatoes.— Plentiful supply, Table, 50s; sood, £3los to £5 according to kind. Chaff.—Plenty offering, 65s to |7os. . Property.-No sales to report. Still an enquiry, particularly from tho South for moderato sized improved farms.