MARKET NOTES.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 34, 5 November 1920, Page 10

MARKET NOTES.

BRAY BROS. REPORT. Invercargill, November 3, 1920. Messrs Bray Eros., Ltd., Auctioneers and Fruit Salesmen, Dee street, invercargill, report as follows for week ending to-day : — PRODUCE. — Potatoes : The inquiry for table potatoeg is slow and priees are nominal, prime to 5s per cwt; other quality from 4s to 6s per bag. Seed Potatoes : The demand is slow and only guaranteed quality are wanted. Onions to 35s per cwt. Oats, 15s to 24s per bag. Chaff, 3s to 4s per bag. Meggitt's Calf Food, 2Ys 6d per bag. Bran, 11s 6d per 1001b bag. Pollard, 15s 1001b fcag. Farro Food, 12s per bag, Molasses, 12s 6d per tin. Mutton Birds, ls ld per bird. Fruit. — Supplies are very scarce, particularly good Sturrners. Sturmers, 10s 6d to 13s 6d per case ; Rokewood, to 12s 6d per case, choice quality ; other from 9s to 10s 6d per case according to grade and variety. Cooking Apples. — Prime quality to 10s 6d per case. Pears are very scarce and prices rule high. Vegetables, etc. — Cabbage to 10s sack; Swedes, 4s 6d per bag; Carrots, 4s per bag, Parsnips, 2^d lb ; Rhubarb, 2^d to 3d per lb ; Asparagus, 8d to ls bundle. Cucumbers to 18s per doz ; Walnuts to ls 5d per lb. GENERAL. — Leep Sa-lt Lick 2s 3d per brick. Cow* Covers, 22s 6d to 30s each. Horse 'Covers, £2 15s to £3 each. Discs (8ft), £20. Black Wire (No. 8), 38s per cwt. Tea in chests, fialf chests, 10 and 51b packets, 2s 6d to 3s 3d per lb. Honey in 101b tins, II3 tin. Tanza, a preparation stopping blight in potatoes, 2s per packet. FURNITURE. — Our Warehouse in Spey street have a complete stock of Furnishing lines. We manufactur,e Oak and Rimu furniture to any desired design. We also have a number of Pianos and Sewing Machines on view. Your inspection invited. LAND DEPARTMENT. — A nicely situated six-roomed house within ten minutes walk of the Post Office, Invercargill. The owner is leaving the district and immediate possession can be arranged. Price only £600 cash. This is absolutely a bargain. Bray Bros., Ltd., Dee street. SOUTHLAND MARKET REPORT. The local demand for oats for seed pur. poses is now about over, though there is still an oocasional inquiry for feed purposes. Amongst users there is the usual continuous demand, and as some merchants are availing themselves of the opportunity afforded for shipping oats to England, stocks in stors will be considerably reduceF Chaff still maintains recent high rates of £7 10s, and even £7 12s 6d on trucks at handy sidings for prime quality. The demand somewhat exceeds the supply, but as green feed becomes more available the price, which is undoubtedly high, is like- ' ly to r,ecede to an appreciable extent. With the strong local demand for rye- 1 grass for seed purposes, merchants' stocks are getting into small compass, and it is > only the continual small offerings from the j countiy that enable some merchants to continue their quotations. The basis of "wholesale values may be taken as 10s per bushel for dressed 301b seed. During the past week prices for stock have remained practieally the same. At last Wallacetown sale there wag a very ! heavy yarding of good fat- cattle, £48 j being realised for an extra prime bullock, which is a record for the yard for some time past. There was also a fairly heavy yarding of store cattle, and these met with a ready sale. Weil-bred aged cattle sold well, but inferior yearlings and two-year-olds were very bard to quit. Store eheep remained unchanged, prices being the same as given last week. The following prices may be regarded as approximate : — . Efit Cattle. — Extra prime steers, £48; prime, £22 to £25 ; unfinished, down to

£15 10s ; extra prime cows, £16 to £18j prime, £14 to £15 10s ; unfmislied, £10, extra prime heifers, £16 to £18; prim0 £13 10s to £14 10s ; unfinislied, £9 to £lo' Store Cattle. — Yearlings steers, £3 1(^ to £4 5s ; two-year-olds, £7 5s to £8 15s; three-yea-r-olds, in forward condifion, £11 10s to £13 10s ; average, £10 10s to £llj dairy cows, extra good, £18 to £20; average, £16 to £17 10s ; inferior, down fo £8. Fat Sheep. — Extra prime weuiers, 4£s to 52s. 6d; prime, 42s to 45s ; unfinislied, down to 38s ; extra prime ewes, 58s to 40s ; prime, 34s to 36s ; unfinislied, down to 30s. Store Sheep. — Four, six and dghUooth ewes, with lambs at foot, all counted, 20s to 22s 6d ; inferior, down to 17s; iull and failing-mouthe'd ewes, with lambs at foot, 17s to 19s; extra good hoggets, 24s average, 22s to 23s; inferior, downfolffy two-tooth wethers, 30s to 32s; average, 28s ; four and six-tooth wethers, ls fo 38s ; average, 35s ; inferior, down to 31a.