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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue IV, 3 December 1909, Page 4

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CDLONIAL DAIRY IMIODI'CK. .Mo.^r.s \V. \\Ydd;l :iml Co. send ins their weeUly market report, dated London. OctoluT 22, :is follows:— IWitter. — Tlie weather continues most erratically clian^e:i>)le. no two ' days alil«\ Jio't iiaidly even twelve hours ol Use .-.aiiie kiml of we:u her. _ The most tinrhaii^ealile feature- lor' soiiie long time has been its changeability. The temperature i* most ;d>iiormallv warm. Since 18^5 only once have t lit' October minimum temperatures been so llijih. The improved animation shown Jasi week in colonial butti-ivi iias lurilier ' develop, d ; lu:>ine.-s Iki.n daily increa;;---i e;|. and prices have shown a ceusible 1 u;>\v::rd movement. Enquiry for ini--1 salted is more active than salted. Kiiip-iionts this week from Australia consist of 25.701» l)oxes in tlie Oplnr, ' against 1W.d.11) shi])ped last week, and from New Zealand of 31,fj00 in the I l?uapehil. '\"\\U is an increase of ");J'JH '■ on the Arawa. tlie ])revious boat, • which wa.-; 'JO. (iS() more than the boat before. The ;-hipmeiitfi this week arc ■ somewhat disappointing, especially . tlia! from Australia, as a greater mii cn>a\e was expected and instead there is a decrease of 3300 boxes. Arrivals • from Australia .since tlie la.st report number 16\3r!S boxes, but they <"on«i.st ■ ] mostly of .secondary quality. Arrivals - uf ••choice-.t" are small and well i >;<>iiKht alter. '-Choir^t " new wa- ■ sonY, Victorian make 11 -Is to IKJs i per owl. uiisalted 110s .lo USs. and ■ New Zealand lib's to 118s, umalted i l,|Mji«r, s TJO.s to V2'2~, per cwt. Tor the ■> Otway, a few lir.st grade Queensland ' -Vin'iist made have sold at 112s to 114?. while these that were winter made in June and July are selling at lUbs to Th" markets for Danish. Dutch and other foreign butter- still reman, stro-.i" on the Continent. I lie nse \vhu-l7 has occurred in Denmark lor three succe ,*ive weeks has naturally brought about caution among buyeifi. and The fruther me of one krone yesterday will empliasi.se this hesitation ; but the great shortage generally of .strictly "finest" butter should hold up prices for .some weeks yet. Until supplies, of "ehoicoit" Australian and New Zealand new season's butter arrive in such qualities as will fill up this deficiency of strictly choice goods, it .skeins impossible for Danish and other high quality butters to fall very much. It is reasonable to expect the present- price will somewhat '"blow down" the demand. It is most unusual for Danish to have gone up so high without th: 1 prices of other kinds following more- than they have done. Danish is relatively dearer than any other butter on our .markets. The present prices of all butters except Danish are about 4s per cwt less than last year, while Danish is 2s more, so there is a margin for adjusting values to the normal position by other varieties moving up ,-or by Dani&h coming down. The export of Siberian hiiit week shows a falling off to tlie extent of l(),oH() casks from the previous week which is equal to 44 per cent. Cheese. — The market remains quiet and values are virtually unchanged. Cables from Canada offer Westerns :i« low as 54s fid per cwt. c.J.f. for October make. Xew Zealand cheese afloat a mounts to V'2o tons, intituling I!K) in the Ruapehu, which Railed yesterday. JM'XrcniN STOCK SALKS. ! The inliowing is the weekly report of tiie iiurnside sLock market:Fat Cattle. — 140 yarded. The quality was only mi dinm, with odd pens oi prime bullocks. Owing to the small entry prices showed an advance of I'rom -x-i to 10s per head. Jiest bullocks L!) UTs to CiO 10s, extra heavy -1.! /s (id to Ll2, good ,t\S to -CSi, light *Jfi I.os to £7 10s, best cows and heii'ers I' 7to L\S, medium to good Co 10-s to to 10s. light and inferior fi L.w to L-4 l.w. Sheep.- 2438 yarded. A medium yarding of fair quality, tlie greater • pioportion being shorn. I' rices were much the samo as those ruling last ] ■week. Best woolly wethers 2ls to 22s 6d, extra to 2os 6d, medium 18s (xl to 20s, inferior lOs to 17s, best .shorn | wethers l~)± to lo's, extra to 17s 3d, ' medium 13s to 14s. inferior 12s to 12.; (id, best woolly ewe.s to 225, medium 17s to IS.s, shorn ewes 12.s to 13s, medium to 9s (id. Lambs. — 443 yarded: a i'air yard- • ing. Prices showed a slight advance as compared with those of last week, i but a slight easing ofF was noticeable \ towards the end of the sale. Heist j up to 1(« (id, medium to 13s, inferior ■ to 10.5. A few of extra quality sold j up to 17s (id. | Pigs.— There was a large yarding, ; ISO being forward. The quality, es- ' peri-ally of porkers and baconers, was ,' extra good, but, owing to the large i number coming forward and the nvea- ; tlier being too warm for curing, heavy j pigs showed a drop of 10s to los oil I late rates. Suckers 16s to 19*, stores | 23s to 30s, porkers 33s to 38s, light j Daconers 43s to 4(55, heavy 48s to I

OOS. PALMKttSTOX STOCK SALES. Tho N.Z.L. and M.A. Co. report: At Palmerston yesterday we had a small entry of sheep and a medium yarding of cattle. We quote: Shorn tat ewes 11s sd, 2-year steers £3 7s (id, 2-Kvear stoers £3 10s Od, springing cows £5, forward cows £3 14s, bulls £3. Messrs Abraham and Williams report: A small yarding of sheep and a fair one of cattle met with a keen demand. We quitted -practically the whole of our .yarding at prices slightly in favour of vendors. We quote : Woolly store wethers 8s Od to 15s 3d, ewes and lambs 16s 9d, 2-year steers £3 12s 6d, yearffng to 18-months steers £2 10s to £3, fat cows £3 13s Od, £3 17s 6'd to £1 ss, springing heifers £3 17s 6d to £4 10s. store cows 35s to £2 19s, yearling heifers tM.Od to £2 12s, bulls 30s to £3 15s, spn.n-gin.^ cows £3 10.5 to £5. THE CAUSE OF CONSTIPATION. _ Tho most common cause of constipa-