THREE YEARS AGO

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 142, 12 March 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

THREE YEARS AGO

Market Values Of 1935 The market reports quoted here are taken from my own notes, written during weeks ending March .) anil 16, 1935. Dairy Produce. Manawalu factories will pay-out on March 20 an advance of B<l. a lb. on February supply to butter factories. This is a pleasing rise on 1934. when the payout was 6d. a lb. London quoted butter at 75/-. and cheese at 45/6. A very dry summer, described as a drought, had greatly lowered production in Mannwatu. The Pig Market. Bncoiiers, 37/- to 50/-: porkers. 27/to 33/6; stores. 12/- to 23/-; weaners, 6/(5 to 9/6: and choppers, 22/- to 50/-. This was at Levin, on the smallest entry se»n for weeks. Schedule rates, pork 4Jd., and bacon 5Jd. An export quota had come into force on March 7. stopping the shipment of pork. Dairy Stock.

Wenner heifers, 15/- a head, and incalf heifers, £2 to £3/15/-. Cows in milk were selling at £2/10/- to £4/10/-. Produce. Potatoes in good demand, selling at £7 5/- to £7/10/- for Suttons, o.t. Manawatu stations. Onions, same district, £8 to £B/10/-. Brown Spanish at £lO. Chaff, ex Rangitikei, £5 to £5/5/-, to growers. Pollard, South Islam], wholesale prices, £5/15/- ton: bran, £4/10/-; fowl wheat, 4/6 a bushel; oats, A Gartons, 3/- to 3/2 a bushel. A strong demand was being experienced for Italian rye to sow for winter feeding, pastures being very short because of drought conditions. Stock Values. At the Feikliitg sale on March 8, it was reported: A yarding of 20,000 store sheep; a good sale for good sheep, but second quality lines declined; fats also easier. All cattle sections quiet. Store Sheep: Five-year ewes, 10/3 to 23/1; good average ewes, 17/- to 18/6; two-tooth ewes, 22/6 to 31/8; good average liens, 25/- to 26/-: ewe lambs, 9/to 17/9; good pens about 16/-; b.f. lambs, 10/- to 15/-; two-tooth wethers, 16/- to 21/-. Fat sheep: Ewes, poor, 13/-; medium to prime, 18/- to 22/6; good average, 19/-; wethers, good average, 23/-. Fat cattle: Best bullocks at Westfield, £7/10/- to £lO/15/-, averaging 25/- 1001 b. for choice beef. Works schedule rates were: Ewes, 13/-; wethers, 23/-; and lamb, 7Jd. a lb.; freezing beef, 21/- to 22/-. The local trade, however, nutting ewes and fat cattle above export parity. Facial eczema was causing great trouble, in the Manawatu and Waikato especially.