MARKET REPORTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 450, 8 March 1909, Page 8

MARKET REPORTS.

Messrs. ' Dalgety and Company, Ltd., report having held their monthly sale of wool, skins, hides! etc.,. at Paliher'ston North on Friday, when they offered a fair catalogue comprising 150 bales and sacks of wool, .1900 sheepskins, 500 hides and calfskins, and a quantity of tallow, horsehair, etc., to a large attendance of buyers. Prices were on a par with last sale's rates. We quote—Wool: Crossbred, Gd. to 6!d.; log-stained and inferior, sd. to sjd.; lambs',; 02(1. to 7Jd. for best, lots; short and stained, flu. to 53d.; dead wool',' 4Jd. to 51(1.; bellies,' 4d. to'4Ul.; black, 4M.; locks and pieces, 2Jd. to 3Jd.; dirty locks, l|d. : to 2Jd. Sheepskins: Crossbreds, full wools, 5d., 5Jd., to G!d.; lambs', 53d. to 6|d.; deadskins, 4}d. to-43d.; dead hoggets, 4d. to 41; wool pelts, 4Jd.; to s'd.; pelts, bare,. 4d. to 4}d.; inferior and damaged pelts, lid. to 2}d.; butchers' part dry pelts, at each, 2~s, 2d., 2s. 5d., 2s. 7d., to 2s, 9(1. each; lambs', to 2s. Gd.; salted pelts, Is>. 7d. to 2s. Bd. : enclii lamb pelts, Is. ! to Is. Id. each. Hides: Cows, abattoirs, sjd. to sjd.; ox, medium-weight, 53d. to Gd.; 01, light, SUI. to 53d. (country lots); cows, 5Jd. to 5Jd.; 01', SJ(I. (0 s{d.; bulls', to 4Jd.; yearlings', to SJd., cut, cows', to 4UI. to 5Jd. ;'cut, ox, s^d.; cut and slippy hides, 2\d. to 3Jd.; calfskins, best lots, to 7d.; other' lots,' sd. to 5Jd.; out, 41d.; slippy, to 31d. Sundries: Tallow, in casks, 19s. 9d. to 21s. per owt.; tins, 19s. to 205.; fat, to 14s. 3d. per cwt.; horsehair, to Is. 4UI. cowtails, to Is. 2!d.

Messrs. A. H. Atkinson and Co., writing under date March 6, report a good yarding ol pigs of fair quality, and a large entry of poultry, fruit, and general produce at' their last week's Feilding &ale. Pigs sold at rates about on a par with last week's quotations, porkers selling well. Fruit all round mado rather better value. Poultry sold , remarkably- well. Large consignments of peaches and pears havo again came to hand too late for Friday's auction. This necessitates selling during the week at prices considerably below Friday's auction value. Quotations:—Pigs: Weaners, ss. 6d. to 75.; slips and small stores, 9s. 3d. to 13s. Gd.; better sorts, up to 21s. Gd.; porkers, 245., 255., and up to 30s. Horses: Aged gelding, «£2. Poultry (at each)'; Booster chicks, lOd.; hens, Is. Gd., Is. 7d., Is. 3d., and up to ?s. Id. j small roosters, Is. ,• grown birds, to 2s. Id.; ducks, Is. 9d., Is. 10d., 2s. Id., 2s. 4d. to 2s. 5d.; geese, 25.. 9d. to 35.; turkey hens, poor, 3s. 9d. Produce: Algerian feeel oats, 2s. Id. Fruit: Prime pears, 4s. 3d. to ss. fid. per case, indifferent, 2s. 9d.; damson plums, 2s. Gd. to 35.; tomatoes, halfeases Is. Gd., full 3s. Gd. to 3s. 9d.; apples,. 2s. to 35.; potatoes, 4s. per 001b. bags, full sacks Bs. to 95.; marrows, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d.; onions, Jd. to Id. per lb.; cabbages, 2s. to 2s. 3d. per sack. Sundries: Gig harness, £1 7s Gd. wagonette, jC2O; chaff sacks, 3s. 6d. per dozen.