MARKET REPORTS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9814, 25 August 1897, Page 2

MARKET REPORTS.

At Rangiora on Tuesday there was a fair attendance at the market. In the yards of Mr W. Biisa there was an entry of 1400 sheep, 125 cat tie, 90 pigs. The prices were —Freezers 15s 2d to 16s 3jod, butchers' fat ewes 9s 6d to lls6d, half-bred ewes in lamb 8s 6d to 9s, hoggets 8a 6d to 9s 6d ; cattle, prime beef equal to 18s per 1001b, corn beef 1-Js, springers £Z 5s to £5 10s, dry cows 25s to 40a, good yearlings 30s, do scrubbers 83 to 22s ; pigs, baconers -10s to 455, porkers 20s to 28a, good stores 15s to 17s, good weaners 93 to lis, small do 6s to 7a 6d. In the produce yards, sales by Mr A. P. Tutton—-Heavy crossbred sheepskins 3s 6d to 4s 9d, medium 2s 9d to 3s 6d, merino 2s 6d to 3s 6d, light skins Is 6d to 2s 3d, hides 24d lb, fat 7s to 9s ewt, fowls Is 6d to 3s pair, chickwheat 2s 9d to 3s 6d bushel, milling and seed do 3s lOd to 4s 3d, feed barley 2s 6d to 3s, oats 2s to 2s 6d, beans 2s 9d, .do crushed 3s, peas (blues) 4s 6d, do (dun) 3s 3d, oatsheaf chaff 60s to 65* ton, straw do 355, potatoes 40s, carrots 20s, bran 80s, sharps 85s, flour (farmers') 15s to 20s, do (guaranteed) 245. At the North Canterbury Yards there was an entry of 1000 sheep; the market for freezing wethers improved from 9d to Is per head, and the prices were 15s 7d to 16s, for crossbred ewes in lamb 9s to lis 3d, store wethers lis 6d to 12s 7d, hoggets 8s 4d to 12s.