MARKET REPORT.

Feilding Star, Issue 758, 19 December 1908, Page 2

MARKET REPORT.

The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Feildmg, report as follows: — At Kimboltou on Tuesday a small yarding came forward. We effected a -clearance at the following rates: 3-year steers, small, £3; empty heifer.-;, 30s; cows in calf backward, to £3; empty cows, 30s; weaner gigs, 14s. At Feildmg on Friday there was a fair yarding of sheep and a medium one of" cattle. Both sheep and catr tie sold fairly well. We quote: Fat woolly ewes, 14s 7d; shorn ewes, »s lid; small shorn hoggets, 9s 7d ; yearling to 15-months steers, £2 7s; mixed yearlings, 255, Messrs Gorton and Son report: — At Bulls on Monday we had a good entry in both sheep and cattle. There was a largo attendance of buyers, and a first-class sale resulted. At Bmmythorpe on Wednesday we ■Jield a clearing dairy sale on account Herdman and Martin. BiddinFifiL,^ I*.1 *. throughout the sale. CowsTHsnulk made from hi 15s to £9 2s 6dTßS«i2g™S .c°Y a ' 4 5s to £8 12s (3d ; fat sows with litters, £4 2s 6d, £2"DS"p* i K I os, £5 7s Gd; porkers 295. At Feilding on Friday we had a food yarding of sheep and a heavy yarding of cattle. Bidding was animated for all classes and good prices resulted. Wo were successful in placing all our entries but 14 head of cattle and 100 sheep. We quote : At Bulls sale, shorn ewe hoggets, 12s Id; mixed shorn hoggets, 11s Id; woolly ewes, 13s lOd ; shorn ewes and lambs 14s 3d ; woolly ewes and lambs, los 2d; good fat cows, £5 5s 6d; light fat heifers. £3 4s to £4; old fat cows, £3 2s 6d to £3 14s; 2-year steers, £2 12s; 2-year heifers, £2 Is; good cows, £2 os. At Feilding, fat lambs, 12s 6d to 12s 8d ; good 2-tooth wethers 12s Id; fair 2-tooth wethers, 10s 6d, 10s 7d, 11s 6d, and 11s 7d; first-class 2-tooth ewes 13s 6d; fair 2-toot.h ewes 10s 6d to Us 8d ; mixed 2-tpoths. 10s to 10s lid; small mixed 2-tooths. 8s lid; fat ewes, 11s 3d; woolly owes and lambs, 14s. Light fat heifers, £3 10s 6d to £3 19s; light fat cows, £3 19s, £3 19s Gd to £4; medium fat cows, £4 7s 6d, £4 10s, £4 14s and £4 17s; good fat cows, £4 11s, £5, and £5 r2s; speyed cows. £4, £5 '7s 6d to £5 15s; 2year heifers. £2 to £2 8s 6d; cows 'and calves, £2 17s, £3 5s to £3 8s 6d; store cows, various prices from 30s to £2 10s. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd., report large entries and a keen market for all classes of poultry. Pigs ' wore forward in large numbei-s and of excellent quality, some nice weaners, bred by Mrs J. U. Cobbe, topped the niarKet at 16s 6d. Some 100 pigs in all were disposed of. We quote:— ..ps and weaners 9s b'd, lls, 11s 6d, 12s 6d, 13s 6d, 13 9d, 14s (kl, 16s 6d, 17s 6d to 21s ; porkers, light, 19s, 20s 6d, 20s, 2ls, 21s 3d; medium weights, 23s to 25s 9d; empty sows 265. Poultry. — Hens at each, Is 2d to 2s 6d ; roosters to 3s; ducks, Is 4d, Is Bd, Is Od and up to 2s ; turkey, gobblers, 13s, 14s 3d, 14s 6d, Iss 3d, 16s 3d, and up to 16s 6d; hens, 5s 9d to Ss: geeco, 2s 6d to 3s Id, average price 2s lOd. AM at each, hens and chicks 3s. Produce: New potatoes, Id to ljd per 1b ; pig 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack ; rliubard 4d per bundle; spring onions 3d per bundle; damaged chaff Is 3d per sack: oats, good feed Algerians, 2s 3d per bushel. On Wednesday we held, at tlie mill, Santlon road, a highly successful sale or building and bridge timber on account of Messrs Beazer Bros. The whole of the lots, totalling over 60,000 feet, being disposed of under the hammer. 0.8. Totara sold ur> to 1.3p id p"i- 100 foe{. heart rimu +o 14s 3d-, 0.8. timber 12s to 13s 6ti ( seconds to 10s rxl. heart matai to 14s 6d. snvkiner to 10s 3d. heart totara from 16s •'id to 185. seconds soantlinsr 6s ro 9s 6d. sre-onds totara to 12s 3d.