WOOL SKIN AND HIDE SALE.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 759, 21 December 1908, Page 4

WOOL SKIN AND HIDE SALE.

Messrs Abraham and Williams report on their sale: — We offered a large catalogue at our sale to-day comprising numerous bags of wool, 4500 skins, 900 hides and calf skins, 8 casks and sundry tins of tallow, rabbit skins, etc. Included'in our catalogue were several lines o£ first-class skins and well go* up hides and our tog prices were 7d per lb for fine skins and 7d per lb for heavy ox whilst a line of calf skins xealised 8d per lb. Our Ibides were all in splendid condition, most of the lines offered being conditioned in our store on Thorndon Quay and realised top prices. We quote: — Bag Wool.—Fleece, 4*d to 52dj dead, 4^d; locks, bellies and pieces, lfd to 3*d. Skins. —Crossbred fine, 6Jd to id. medium crossbreds, ssd to 6d; coarse crossbreds, 5d to s£d; lambs, 4£d; crossbred hoggets, ssd; best dead, 4|d; dead hoggets, 4Jd; ordinary dead, 4d; short woolley, 4sd to 4|d; short and inferior crossbreds, 2£d to 3|d; pelts, Is 2d to Is '3d; salted, Is Id; lambs, Is Sa. Hides.—Heavy ox 651bs to Yllbs^ 6id to 7d; medium ox 561bs to 601bs, 6} to 6§d; light 461bs to 561bs, 5Jd to sld; heavy cows, s|d; light and medium cows, best, 5Jd; dry and rough, 4|d; yearlings, 4|d to sfd; damaged ox and cows, 4dto4£d; best calf, 73d to 8d; cut and damaged, 3sd to 52dTallow.—ln shipping order, 23s to 23s 3d; tins, 19s 6d.» Rabbit skins, 7£d per lb; cow. tails Is Id per doz. WELLINGTON WOOL AND SKIN SALES. The fortnightly sales of wool, skins, hides, tallow and sundries were held by Wellington brokers on Friday. Buyers were numerous, and there was spirited bidding. ,Very little wool was offered. Prices averaged ais under: — Wool.—Crossbred, 4*d to &id; lambs, 4£d; halfbred, 7*d; pieces, 2-Jd to 3£dj locks, 2£d to 2£dSheepskins.—lnferior sorts were dull of sale, better sorts being firm at last sale rates. Crossbred fine; Gl& to 7d; crossbred, 43d to s?d; crossbred dead, 3£d to 4*d; crossbred shorts, 2Jd to 4d; crossbred damaged, 2d to 2§d; lambs 4*d to 6d; hoggets, 4d to s£d; crossbred damp, 2j 7d to 3s 9id; crossbred salted, 3s tc 4s 3d; green pelts 9d. Hides.—The market showed an advance of about a 3d over last sate rates. Ox 571 bto 731 b, s|d to 62d; cut and slippy. 3|d to s§d; 351 b. tc 431 b 42d to sd; cow, 361 bto 481 b 43d'to sd; c\it and slippy, 3*d tc 4|d; yearling, 4£d; yearling cut 2*d- * . ■ , * a Calfskins were m good demand the market advancing about id or last sale rates. Best, 7fd to B|d. medium 7d; inferior, s|d to 6Jd, dry "Tallow.— In casks, 22s to 24s 3d in tins and kegs, 20s 6d to 21s. THE STOCK MARKET. Newton King, New Plymouth, re P°At S 'Kaponga on Friday yearlini steers made 38s, bnfgr 37s 2-year empty heifers 40s to 4bs store cows 38s to 50s, forward. cow £3 2s to £3 13s, fat cows £4 10s t< £4 15s, bulls £2 to £2 10s. At Stratford on Tuesday steer yeai lings made 37s to 40s, 16-mon«h empty heifers 28s to 345, 2-ye»r heif ors 37s 6d, 3-year forward buUock £4 15s to £5, store cows 35s to 50s forward do. £2 16s to 43 10s, fai do. £4 ss, bulls £2 2s to £3. In the dairy yards springing heifers made £2 15s to £4, cows £3 5i to £5 17s 6d. T,t, At Rahotu on Wednesday, I held { very successful clearing sale on ac Sunt of Mr J. H. Bleakley. The cow; were a very nice lot. a good numbe Harry Palmer reports the usual ex Z, Saber whio* ta. been *f ™«g Young hens in good condition «w well We have sold more geese thi Jason than on any. previous^occasu>j and the average price has Jfongooj W« had a good average entry of pig A? iSendid quality. Sucking pigE lli Kid .mow readily g» ers 13s 3d, 13s 6d, 6d, 16s 16 6d; slips 17s 6d, 19s £1, £1 la 6d £1 2s 6d; stores, £1 4s, £1 ss, =b. 6s- Heht porkers, £1 ss, £1 7s bd heavysorte, 30s, 31s, 31s 6d; empt: York sow, £1 12s. Pen of gooc lambs, 12s each. Turkeys, at each 6s, 7s 6d, Bs, 8s 6d 10s, Us, % 13b 15s. Geese, at each, 4s 9d, 4s 6d, 4s 3s 6d, 3s 3d, 3s, 2s 6d. Good cockerel* 4s to 5s 6d, for half-grown 2s to 3i 6d, chicks Is to Is 6d, ducks (good 5s 6d to 7s 6d, ducklings Is 9d to li 6d, half-grown 2s 6d to 5s 6d, younf hens 4s to 5s 6d pair, mixed sorts A to 4s 6d. New potatoes 8s to 10i sack, gieen peas 6d peck, broad bean 4d to 6d, cabbage Is 6d to 2s sack cauliflowers, poor samples 2s 6d to 6 per sack, rhubarb 4s to 5s doz, hami 9id, eggs Is 3d, black and red cur rants 6d lb. Our final Christmas salj will be held on Thursday, 24th, at -L noon.