COMMERCIAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 282, 2 June 1909, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

H.B. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION. WOOL, SKIN., AND HIDE SALE. Wo conducted our periodical' wool, skin, and hide sale yesterday, when we offered 67 bales and 100 bags wool, j 1850 skins, 200 hides and calf skins, 75 tins and 4 casks tallow, horsehair, etc. There was a large attendance, of buyeKs. Competition was ■very keen for all products, but especially for wool, erutchin&s, and sheepskins. Good crutchings made from 4§d to ojd, and rough dingy wool to V7d per lb; best sheepskins frctar 6£d to 7id per lb.' „ ? Compared with dastiv sale prices show an increase ohf all classes and at present we have numerous inquiries for orutchings and wool.. We 'quote: -—Fleece', dingy, Trough, and stragglers, 6jd to 7d ; . crutchings, best. 42d to o.J-d, medium 3£d to 4£d; black wool, s*d; dead wool, s£d, locks, 2|d to 3d. ■ Sheepskins: Fine crossbred : 7-id; coarse and medium, full-woolled skins, sound 6Jd to 6^d; good half-wools, 6£dto6fd; prime shorts, 6^l to j6|d.; lambs, 6id to 7d ; dead full, wools, s£d; black; 4kl; second-class skins at proportionately lower rates ; butchers' salted, 3s 8d to 4s 4d; lambs, 3s 7d each; others, 2s Id to 3s 6d to 5s 7d each. : "■>'. , . Hides : Ox, 6d ; cow, . medium and light, io£d to s|d; light ox, oid to ojjd; bulls, 3£d; ox at per each, 28s; cow, 15s 9d to 20s 6d; calfskins, 7-fd to 7|d; civt and slippy, 33d to osdy. meaty calf, 6§d. : , Tallow : Tins, 19s to 19s 6d; rough' fat, 14s 6d to 14s 9d; casks, 20s; all at per cwt ; cow tails, Is sd. per doz.-