MARKET NOTES.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 35, 12 November 1920, Page 8

MARKET NOTES.

Messrs Bray Bros., Ltd 4 and Fruit SaJesmen, Dee gill, report as follows for - ' 1Verc^day : — ^ing tfl. PRODUCE. — Potatoes : qn,. • table potatoes is sIW and !°f ' inal ; prime to 5s per cwt • Q{\ J 319 noiB4s to 6s per bag. Seed Potato J mand is slow and only guaranU? d#" are wanted. Onions to 34 qUal% Oats 15s to 24s per bag. Chaff'T per bag. Meggitt's Calf Food J° 48 per bag. Bran, 10s 9d per Farro Food 12s per bag. M7 H 6d per tin. Mutton Birds 1$ 14 ri^, ^ FRUIT. Supplies are very ticularly good Sturmers. »♦,,,„ ' pw" to 14s per case, Rokewood to l&y Us case, choice quality; others fr0ffi „T''r 11s, accordmg to grade and variety t ing Apples, prime quality to Us per " Pears are very scarce and" prices xule mvl' Vegetables. — Cabhage to 10s; Swede l 6d per bag; Carrots 4s per bag - pj2^d per 1b ; Rhubarb 3d per lb; ASDara'PS 8d to ls per bundle; Cucumbm to 2 per dozen ; Walnuts to ls 5d per lb GEN ERAL.-— Lepp Bait Lick, 2s 3d brick. Cow Covers, 22s 6d to 30s ea^ Horse Covers, £2 15s to £3 each. n;° ' (8ft), £20. Black Wire- (No1, 8), 38s cwt. Tea. Chests, half-chests, 101b and 51b packets, 2s 6d to 3s 3d per lb h0ney in 101b tins, 11s. Tanza.—A preparation ! for stopping blight in potatoes in packet( 2s. FURNITURE.— Our Spey street, warohouse have a complete stock of furnishing lines. We manufacture Oak and | furniture to any design desired. We also i have a number of pianos and sewing 3 machines on view, your inspection invlted 1 LAND DEPARTMENT.-A new fivel ' roomed brick and rough cast villa, Eaet Road. H. a-nd c. water, Porcelain bath, j panelled ceiling, latest designs in wall 1 paper. A bargain. £1300. Deposit ! £300. Terms arranged. Bray Bros., 1 Ltd., Dee street. SOUTHLAND MARKET REPORT, j The Shropshire is now due at. Blufl. t» 1 load 25, (XX) sacks of oats for Avonmouth, , and this quantity is about 25 per cent. of the total held in store in Southland. A census of oats in the produce bas jnit been made, which shows tbat tke quantity j in store hardly exceeds 50 per cent. of j that in stock at the same time last year. i This is despite the fact that there has j been very little shipping to northern ports from Bluff during the year, butthelwiy I saies for seed and the exceptional local demand have brought about this positi®. j Merchants are of opinion that prices will 1 remain firm, and even probably improve,. J and in this connection it might be noted 1 that the local market has always been on j a parity with the prices paid to larmers early in the season, merchants in .10 sit> having followed the 'drop in the nortn. The chaff market is firm, prime quality being worth £7 10s on trucks, but in vkw of the fact that merchants will sbortly require all the available accommodaiion I for wool, prices are expected to receds. ] With the exception of the local demand for seed purpose3 the ryegrass market is rather quiet, there being little wholesale 1 inquiry from the north. For 251b to 4olb machine-dressed seed merchants are a'-king 9s per bushel, f.o.b., aird up to 10s 1 for 301b to 311b seed. There is virtually nothing to report in j the hemp market, very little being n»nl{" j factured and no opportunity of doing h"' ness with London at payable prices. considerable quantity of the hemp in £|°rfl will go forward to London next v/ee • . During the past week the stock ®ar ' has been fairly quiet. At country saes the noticeable f eature was the large en ij : of store cattle. The demand is aiB easy, and prices in this section arc w j siderably lower than a month ago. j the exception of three and f°ur"}'ea' | steers store cattle are practicablly mu able. Very few sheep are offering, an offerings are mostly ewes and 1»® these are selling on a par w^' p ; ruling the last fortnight. Dry sheeptainty J receded in price owing to the unctf ^ of the coming wool season. rlctS be quoted ,8 0 I Fat Cattle. — Extra prime bull0^' , to £29; prime, £20 to JB22'10>i J down to £16; extra prime coW®' £18 ; prime, £12 to £13 ; unfimshed, ^ to £9; extra prime heifers, £ to prime, £12 to £13; d"" mi A four-year'0^ Store Cattle. — and ^ to steers, in forward condition, tffC, £14 10; average, £11 10s to ^ ^ year-old steers, good s°rt8' .rg. enipfy 10s; yearlings, £3. 10s to ^ ^ cows, £6 to £7 accordmg ^ dition ; inferior, £2 to £4- 10s ; W

xxtra good, £^7 to £19 ; average, £14 to 316 ; inferior, down to £8. . Fat Shecp. — Extra prime wethers, 48s ; a 50s ; prime, 42s to 44s ; unfinished, •vy own to 38s 6d ; extra prime ewes, 38s to 3s ; prime, 35s' to 36s 6d ; unfinished, own to 30s. Store Sheep. — Four and. six-tooth ewes, ith lambs at foot, 21s to 22s 6d ; soundouthed ewes, 18s 6d to 20s 6d ; full and iling-mouthed ewes, 15s to 17s ; extra >od mixed-sex hoggets, 26s to 28s ; averd. hjp, 24s to 25s; inferior, down to 21s; ur and six-tooth wethers, in good contion, 34s to 36s ; average, 32s to 33s ; ferior| down to 26s ; two-tootjj wethers, is to 31s 6d; average 28s; inferior, down i. ' 22s 6d'