MARKET REPORTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2488, 5 July 1909, Page 5

MARKET REPORTS.

id GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT. it Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report ai follows We held our usual weekly auction sah of grain and produce on Monday and submitted a fair catalogue to f good attendance of buyers. Prices rulec as under : Oats. -There is fair demand for A grade Cartons for shipment Homt through absence of freight offering re stricts operations. In the absence ol North Island business, B grade is not in request, and demand is slack, We quote Prime milling A Gartons la 7d tc l/Bd, A Sparrowbills 1/6 to 1/6s, Good tc best feed Is 4$ to Is 6d, Inferior tc medium Is 2d to Is 4d. per bushel, sackis 11 extra. e Wheat.—The market shows little e change from last week and the relation * of buyers to sellers remains about the ‘ same. We quote Prime milling 4/1 1 to 4/2, Choice milling to. 4/3, Whole B Fowl wheat 3/8 to 3/9, Medium 3/4 to B 3/6, ilnferior 2/6 dto 3s per bushel sacks ' extra. 3 Potatoes.—Good demand for well pick- ‘ cd Up-To-Dates which however must be 1 free from blight to bring top price. ’ Blighted and rough to medium are not | easy to place at quotations. We Quote ■ ‘ Extra prime to £4, Best freshly dug 1 samples £3-12s6d to £3-15s, medium ' £2-10-0 to £3-7-6. 1 ChafV.—Offerings of well cut bright ! Oaten Sheaf are readily taken at top 1 quotations but medium and discoloured < are not so easy to quit. The latter 1 qualities have been offering freely these last few days. We quote—Best Oaten £2-12-6 d to £2-15-0, Medium £2 Os 0d to £2-7-6, Inferior and discoloured 35s to 40s. Straw.—Wc quote Wheateu 255, Oaten 30/0. Turnips.—Loose up to 16s. Dunedin, June 29. Strouach, Morris A Company Ltd., report for week ending 30tn Juno as follows ; Fat Sheep.—There were 3122 yarded, being of very poor quality all through. A largo proportion of the yarding was ewes, with only a tew pens of prime wethers and ewes. Good wethers sold at an advance, and others were equal to last week’s rates, but medium wethers and ewes were much the same. Quotes—Best wethers 16/0 to 17/3 ; extra to 19s 3d. medium to good 13s 6d to 14/6, light and inferior 11s 6d to 12s 6d ; best ewes 12s 6d to 13s 6d; extra to 17s Od ; medium 9s to 11s ; light and inferior 5/0 to 8/0. Fat Lambs—There were 2083 penned, all good quality. There was keen competition from exporters, and prices realised were much much about tire same as at week’s sale. Quotations—Best lambs from 13s 6d to 14s 0d; extra 15s to 17s Od, medium 11s 6d to 12s 6d, stores 6s Od to 10a Od. Fat Cattle. very fair quality. Prime quality cattle were in good demand at an advance on last week’s rates. Quotations Best bullocks brought from £lO Os to £ll-0; extra to £l3 0s ; medium to good £7 0s to £8 ; light £5 10s to £6 ss; best cows and heifers £5 to £6-10 ; medium to good £4 10a to £5. Pigs.—9o yarded. Suckers 10s 6d to 13s Od ; slips 15s to 18s ; stores 22s to 28s; porkers 35s to 40s; light baconers 42s to 50s ; heavy do 53s to 565. Rabbitskins—We offered an exceptionally large catalogue at Monday’s sale, when tiiere was a large attendance of buyers. The competition for all kinds of skin was hardly so good as last week, and prices were not so extreme as on that occasion. However all kinds sold well and vendors will undoubtedly be pleased with the results. Best winter does 30d to 32d ; medium to good 26d to 28$ d ; mixed bucks and does 17Jd to 22d ; incoming winters 14$ d to 16d ; best autumns 12$dto 14fd ; spring bucks B|d to 13d, spring does 8d to 12d, winter blacks to 19|d, fawns to |4d, racks to lOd horsehair to IBd. We can recommend consignments. Hides. We held our usual fortuiglrtly sale on Thursday, 27th inst., when we submitted a medium catalogue. Competition was keen, and we have to report a very satisfactory sale, Quotations—Prime stout heavy ox hides 7d to 7sd, good heavy 6sd to 7d, light ssd to 6Jd, inferior 2sd to 4d, best heavy cow hides sfd to 6sd,‘medium osd light 5d to ssd, inferior 3gd to 4Jd, yearlings to ogd, calfskins s§d to Bgd, horse hides to 9s 9d each. Sheepskins. —We held our fortnightly sale to-day when we offered a good catalogue. The attendance of buyers was larger than usual and bidding was very brisk for all classes of skins, prices beimr fully up to late rates. For a good line of fine $-bred we received a shade over 9d per lb, being the highest price paid in Dunedin so fat this season for sbred. Best $-bred, 7sd to 9d ; medium to good 6sd to 7sd ; inferior 3sd to 4sd ; best fine x-bred 6sd to 7sd ; medium to good ssd to 6sd ; inferior 4d to 5d ; best merino 6d to 7sd ; medium to good 3sd to 4sd ; pelts 3d to 3sd ; best lambskins 4sd to 6sd ; medium to good 3d to 4d. Straw—Quotations-Oaten 32s 6d to 355; wheateu ,30s to 32s 6d per ton (pressed). Tallow & Fat.—Prices are much the same as at last week’s report, all coming forward being readily disposed of. Oats,— During the past week the demand has not been so keen and prices have been somewhat easier. W© quote Prime milling 1/6$ to 1/7$ good to best feed I(4s to 1/ss; inferior to medium 1/3 to 1/4 per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat—There is a fair demand for good samples, but fowl wheat has not the ame enquiry Quotes Prime milling 4s Id to 4s 2d, prime velvet up to 4a 2sd, 1 medium 3s lid to 4s, whole fowl wheat 3a 9d to 3s lOd, medium 3s 5d to 3s Bd, inferior 2s 9d to 3s 3d per bushel. 1 Chaff.—There have been large consign- ; ments of late, and prices snow a Ids r decline on last week’s rates both (w old , and new chaff. Prime old heavy sheaf . is in good demand, and sells at from £2-7-6 to £2-10; medium to good £2-2-6 to | £2-5 ; best new ehaff £2 7s 6d to £2 12-6, medium and inferior £llss to £2 per ton ' (bags extra). Potatoes.-The market is fully supplied, hut only lots free from blight are placed. There is no demand for inferior. Quotations Prime £3 10s to £3 15a; 1 medium inferior £2 10s to £3 3s per ; ton, (bags fn).

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