THE FAT LAMB TRADE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 858, 2 July 1910, Page 8

THE FAT LAMB TRADE.

' • A TRIAL SHIPMENT. "Prodneor" . (Hastings), writing in; ' the "Hawke's'Bay .Herald," gives-, the following as the actual figures of a trial shipment of :100-,lambs .-sold ,on his- account in London ill the early part of this year:— / " ( .- '' Fourteen, were graded at under 281b.; ■ total freezing weight 3811b., average .27. - i-91b. . . Sixty-six - were graded as 291b. to 361b.; total weight, 21161b., average 321b. .. .. .:

Sixteen .'wen > graded .as 37 to 421b.; total 6161b., average 38}lb. One was graded -as- .431k and over ; weight. 431b.. . ' .

Three were graded •as second class total 901b., average 301b. Total weight of 100 lambs, 32461b., average 32.461b. - , " .

- Pat, total lewt. lqr., average 1:40 lb. .- ' -

'.Pelts, 18 at 13s. per dozen, 82 at'lOs. 3d. per dozen. . - 'They were.reported as "good lambs:" . The debit note on the shipment of these lambs was as tinder: —Consolidated rate, 32161b.- at lgd. £21 19s. 7d.; fellmongering', 341. at Id., £1 Bs. 5d.; wool bales, 2s. 2d.; exchange and stamp, 13s. 6d.; total, £24 3s. bd. As against l that I received from, the freezing company an advance ~of 2i-d. per, lb. on 31561b. and ' l.Jd. oil-901b.', £33 Bs. 9d.; fat, £1 6s. 3d. : pelts, £4 95,"6 d. • total,' £39 4s. 6d. ... •. •. .- On: being sold 'in. London, '97 lambs (31561b;) fetched 5.54 d. per lb:, £72 17s. 9d., and 3 lambs (901b.). fetched 5:03 d. per lb., £l l-7s. 9d., a total of £74 15s. 6d. This represented a not return per head, without, wool,- of lis. 6.98 d., or with fat and pelts 12s. sd. per head 1 .:.