WEEKLY LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE REPORT.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2485, 16 June 1893, Page 2

WEEKLY LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE REPORT.

Fat Cattle.— At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday, 137 head^ of fat oattle were yarded. Prime heavy weights, 20a per 1001 b ; medium and light weightß, 18s to 20s per 1001 b. The Mutual Agenoy Company sold bullooks at £6. Cowa at from £4 17 a fid to£7 sa6d. Fat Sheep.— l7ss were penned. Prime oroesbred wethers were keenly oompeted for and fetched up to 18a 9d and ewes up to 17s 3d. Merinos fetched from Qi to 11a 9d.--The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company penned 445, and sold for Mr John Bruce (Greytown), t'4 crossbred wetherß to 16a 3d ; for Mr Peter Law (Patearoa), 30 crossbred wethers at 15a 6d, 30 do at 15a 3d, 30 do at 14a 6d, 30 do at 14a, and 17 at 13-j 3d ; for Mr Matthew Baxter (Kuri BuBh), 65 oroesbred wethers and maiden ewes at 15a 3d, and 30 do at 143 6d ; for Mr William Gray (Milburn), 61 halfbred wethers (small, bnt good) at 13a 3d, 30 do at 13a, 29 do at 12s 3d, and 29 at 12a.— The Mutual Agency Company sold for Mr D. Hudson (Warepa), 22 crosabred ewes at 7_ 3d, 33 at 14s 9d ; for B. J. Jeffries (Te Houka), 30 crossbred wethers at 14a 9d, 33 (light) at 13a 3d; for Mr A. Douglas, 40 'orossbred ewes at 16j 3d, 40 at 16s 3d; for Mr John Eruce (Greytown), 31 mixed crossbreds at 17s 3d, 34 at 17s, 34 at 16a 9d. Pigs.— l3B were penned. Competition alack. Suckers brought 10a to. 13* 6d; slips, 16a 6d to ISs ; Btorea, 193 to 22a ; porkers, 25s to 33a ; baooners, 35s to 52a ; about 20 extra heavy pigs, 543 6d to 63a each. Store Sheep.— The Mutual Agenoy Company sold 1753, sheep (principally croßßbreds) at full market rates, and have inquiries for •.lines of crosabred wethers and well-grown hoggets.— The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Oompany .sold 1350Jcrossbred wethers to 13a 6d. Sheep Skins.— ln good demand, country dry crosabreds, inferior to medium, fetching Is 9d to 3s lOd ; do do merino, Ib 7d to 2a 8d ; f ullrwoolled crossbreds— good, 4a to 5a 3d ; best 5a 6d to 6a 9d ; do do merino— good, 2s9dto3a sd; beßt, 3a,6d to 5a 6d ; dry pelts r ' 3d to Is 6d ; green crossbred skinsbest, 3s 9i to 4a 4d ; choice, 4s 6d ; medium to good, ,3a 3d to 3s 9d,; do do merino, Ib lOd to 3s Id ; lambskinß,: 2a 6d to 3s 9d. . Rabbit Skins. — Still in request, and prices, advancing. One or two ohoioe lots of recentiy-paught winter grey does brought la 6d per lb"; medium to good, la 4d to Is sfd,; best bucks, Is 4d to Is sd; medium, Is 3d to Is 4d ; autumn, lid to ls 2Jd ; summer, Sd to lOd ; suckers, half-grown and inferior, 44d to 7id per lb. , Hides.— Market Bteady, for heavy hides, 2d to. 2Jd.; extra do,. 2|d to 3d; medium, l£d to lfd ; inferior to medium, ldtoljd per lb. r Tallow.— lnquiry fairly good. For best rendered mutton, 21s 6d to 22s 6d ; medium to good, 18s 6d to 20a 6d ; inferior to medium, 14s 8d to 17s. 6d ; rough fat— best mutton caul, freab and clean, 14a io 14b 6d ; medium toqgood. 12a 6d to 13s 9d; inferior to medium, Jlstbl2B ; per>wt. Wheat.— ln fair demand by millers, p'flme milling velvet and Tuacan, 2a lOd to 2s lid— Ohoioe, 3a ; medium to good, Si 6| to 2i 9d } Inferior to medium, 2s Id to 2a fid i broken and thin, Is 8d to Ss (eg store, lagta

Oatß.— In steady demand. Millers are purchasing freely. Shippers are operating to satisfy orders coming to hand from day to day. For best bright stout milling, Ib 9&d to la lOd ; extra prime, ls 10£ d ; beat bright short feed (Sparrowbilla), la 9d to Is 9£d ; medium and ahort Tartarian, Is 8d to la Bg d ; discolored and inferior, Ib 6d to la 7!|d; medium to good long Tartarians, Ib 8i to ls 9Jd ; extra bright (fit for seed). Is lOdto ls ll£d; black, la 7_d to Is B£d ; Danish, ls 7^d to la B£d (ex store, saokß extra, net). Barley.— Odd lots of inferior to medium only offering. Quotations: For prime malting, 4i to 4a 3d ; medium to good, 3a 3d to 3s 6d ; feed and milling, 2a to 33 (ex store, sacks extra, terma). Grass Seed.— Machine-dressed best perennial ryegrass Beed ia firmly held for 3a to 43 —extra prime a shade more ; medium, 3s 6d to 3s 9d (ex store, sacks extra). Cocksfoot (nominal), best dreßßed, 3^d to 3|d ; medium, 2d to 3d per lb. Potatoes.— Prices firm. For best Derwents, 57s 6d to 62a 6d ; medium, 52s 6 to 55s per ton (ex store, sacks weighed in). Chaff. — In excessive supply. Inferior to medium, 22a 6d to 42s 6d, prime, 47a 6d to 50s per ton (ex truck, Backs returned). Dairy Produce.— Market Btagnant. Prime dairy butter (in kega), dull at 7d to 8*1 ; medium, 5d to 6£d ; factory (nominal), lOd to lid per lb. Factory cheese : Medium, in small parcelß, 4£d to 4sd ; loaf 4,-Jd to sd. Dairy made, 2d to 4d per lb. Flax.— The market exceedingly dull and prices dropping. For beat £16 to £17 ; medium, to good, £14 to £15 10s; inferior and strawy, £10 10a to £12 10b per ton (ex store).