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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXV, Issue 2126, 29 January 1909, Page 5

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+ —. BURNSIDE STOCK MARKET. Wednesday, Jan, 27th. ] JFat Cattle however, were of good quality. Prices were unchanged from last week. Best £8 15s to j£9 15s, medium £1 5s to £B, inferior and light to £6, cows.lo £7 10s. Fat Sheep—l,3sl yarded, consisting largely of medium and inferior wethers and ewes. Most butchers had supplies on hand, and the few buyers soon had what they required. The sale opened with prioes about Is better than last week, but. soon dropped again to the previous week's levels. Best wethers 18s to 19s 3d, extra 21s, medium 15s to 17s 6d, inferior and light 10a 6d to 14s, best ewes 15s to 17s 6d, medium 12s to 14s sd, inferior 9s to lis. Lambs—36l yarded, and prices were a shade better Chan last week. . Best lambs 15s to 16s, extra 19s, medium 12s to 14b. Pigs pigs, notwithstanding the large yarding, were fully equal to last week's rates, and porkers and baconers sold at late rates, Suckers 13s to 16s, slips 17s to 19s, stores 23s to 283, porkers 35s to 38s light baconers 40a to 455, heavy 53s to 60s. Mesarß Moritzson and Co. report as follows : Oats.—Milling is ion", B grade is iod, inferior is 7d to is Bd, ex store, sacks extra. Chaff—Prirae bright heavy £3 5s to £3 lss, medium £3, inferior £2 15s. Ba'ley.—Good malting 4s 9d to ss, pearling 4s, seed barley 35 3d. Ryegrass—Farmers' dressed 2s 6d for heavy weights, machined seed 3s 6d to 4s. Cocksfoot—Market remains strong. Farmers' lots 6d, machined gd, Ryecornj*-3s 6d to 4s. Maize.—ss 6d. New Potatoes—Local Peninsulas £9, Aucklands £slo £6, Oamarus £6 to £6 10s per ton. as follows:—Light racks B£d, summers up to iod, best autumns to 143 d, good autumns to second '"'inters from igd to 20d, RabbitsKins—We hold sales every Monday. There is a good demund. We quote outgoing does i6d to i64d, outgoing bucks Isid 10 l6d, winter bucks i6d to I7d, spring does to spring bucks to v\'e supply labels. Sheepskin 9. -Prices are as follows : Halfbred 6#d to 7d, fine crossbred Sid to 6}£d, crossbted Sd to merino to SX<L lambs 4#d to Sd, pelts to 4sd, fallen skins id to ijd per lb lower. Hides—We held our fortnightly sale of hides on Friuay, January Bth, to a good attendance of buyers. The market was firm for both medium and light hides. We had no heavy hides on offer. Calfskins were also in good demand. We realised 7/fcd per lb tor a line of 23 calfskins. We quote : Extra stout ox 7id to Bd, heavy 6d to 7jd, medium 4#d to s#d, light 4d to 4#d ; Cows—Heavy stout $d to 6d, medium 4#d to ssd, light 4d to s#d, yearlings 4#d to sd, stags and bulls 3d to 3}jd, calfskins—best 6d to 7sd, cut and inferior 3d to 6d. Wool—Good clean crossbred 7d, crossbred Sd to 6£d, dingy nd biddy up to 3d, pieces and bellies up to 3#, kicks up to 3#d, dead wool 3#d.