FARMING & COMMERCIAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 91, 11 January 1921, Page 8

FARMING & COMMERCIAL

AUCTION SALES FORTHCOMING FIXTURES. TO-DAY. Ikevin Yards. 12 noon—Stock sale. TO-MORROW. Mersey Street, Island Bay, 10.30 a.m.—Furniture sale (Harcourt and Oo.). 105 Customhouse Quay, Wellington, 2.30 p.m. —Property sale (S. G. Nathan and Oo.). LONDON MARKETS HIGH COMMISSIONER’S CABLED REPORT. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cablegram, dated January 8, from the High Commissioner “*for New Zealand, London: — “Meat. —Home-killed supplies small with' higher prices owing to closing of several markets on account of foot and mouth disease. Closing prices are:— Beef, Is. 5Jd.; mutton, Is. 9£d.; lamb, 2s. per lb., bud higher prices ruled early in the week. New Zealand mutton and lamb in active demand at full prices. New Zealand beef, ox, 10. Id. and 7Jd per lb.; cow, 9d. and GJd. per lb., hinds and fores respectively. Frozen pork selling at Is. 2d. to Is. (Id. per lb. “Butter.—English, average price is ,T‘- £24 se. per cwt (4s. 4d. per lb.); Irish, 'very ejbw sales at declining price, salt, I £l6 16s. per cwt. (3s. per lb.), unsalted ' held for £22 per cwt. (4s. per lb.), nominal, with no demand. "Cheese.—Restricted demand for English; quotations barely maintained. Finest farmers; £7 ss. to £9 per cwt (Is. 3Jd. to Is. 7Jd. per lb.); Canadian, demand has improved, and prices are firmer: white, £7 12s. to £7 14s. per cwt. (Is. 4fd. to Is. 4Jd. P er lb-) • coloured, £7 16s. to £H per cwt. (Is. 4Jd. to Is. sd. per lb). -a “Hemp.—Manila in active demand at advanced price. "J” grade. October-De-cember shipment, sold up to -EGO per ton; January-March shipment up to .£6O 10s. per ton. New Zealand market quiet and steady. Nominal quotations are:-High-points, spot, £54 per ton; January-March shipment, £52 per ibn; fair,' £52 and £5O per ton respectively. "Honey—Market is dull and very little doing. New Zealand first grade, nominally 85s. per cwt. (9d. per lb.), lower /< grades down to 555. per cwt. (6d. per 1b.).” BUTTER AND CHEESE QUANTITIES RECEIVED INTO GRADING STORES. Messrs. J. B. Mac Ewan and Co., Ltd., supply the following information regarding the quantities of butter and cheese received into the grading stores:— ', \ Butter. 1919. 1920. Increase 'Tons, 1 " Tons. Tons. 1920. December ... 3789 6279 2490 or 66% Aug-Dec. (five months) .... 9532 17,250 orBl% Value of Aug.-Dec. receipts last: year, £1.725,282. at 181 s. per cwt. Value of Aug.-Dec. -receipts this year, £4,830,000, at 280 s. per cwt. Increase. £3,104.718. Cheese. 1919. 1920. Increase Tons. Tons. Tons. 1920. December ...10.039 10,737 c 698 or 7% Aug.-Dec. (five (months) ... 25,548 28.713 3165 or 12% Value of Aug.-Dec. receipts last year, £2,563,316, at IOJd. per lb. Value of Aug.-Dec. receipts this year, £3,684.835, at: 13$d. per lb. Increase, £1,121,519. Value of cheese for 1920-1921, calculated at 13jd. per lb., f.o.b. Total increase butter and cheese during 1920, £4.226,237.

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Wellington, report wholesale prices as follow’ :— Barley, feed, Chevalier, Bs. 6d. bushel, sacks in; barley, short feed, 7s. 6d. bushel, sacks-in; maize, Bs. bushel, sacks in; crushed, Bs. 9d. bushel; sacks in;- Partridge peas, 12s. bushel, sacks Is.; peas, Prussian Blue, 13s. bushel, sacks Is.; fowl feed, special mixed, 9s. 9d. bushel, 601 b., sacks in; oats, hulled for poultry feed, Bs. bushel, sacks in; oats, seed, Algerians, 4s. 4d., sacks i'n; feed, Algerians, 4s, sacks in; oats, crushed, 4s. lOd. bushel, sacks in; dressed oats for poultry feed, 6s. 9d. Bushel, sacks in; oats, Gartons B -grade, 4s. 6d.; Gartons, feed, 4s. 2d.; Dun oats, 4s. 10d., sacks in; chaff, oaten sheaf, Blenheim, prime, bright, ton lots or over, £9 15s. ton., sacks in; flour, in sacks, ton lots or over, £l9 15s. per ton; hay, rye, and £B 10s. per ton; pig and calf-meal, £l2 per ton; farro food, £l2 ss. per ton; potatoes, pig potatoes, 4s. per sack; new potatoes, Auckland grown, 95., 9s. 6d.; others, 75., 9s. cwt.; fowls, hens, 65., 7s. Gd.; heavy roosters, ■7s., 9s. per pair; ducks 135., 15s. per pair; geese, 175., 1&. per pair; turkeys. Is. 8d.,. 2s. per lb.; butter, farmers’ separator, dairy, milled or lb. pats, Is. lOd. to Is. lid. per lb.; eggs, fresh, Is. 10d., 2s. dozen; dressed pork, choice, 70’s to 100’s, 9d. lb.; shell grit, prime quality, 9s. per cwt, mutton birds, Tasmanian, in casks, Bd. each, salted; straw, baled, £7 10s. per ton.