FARM AND COMMERCIAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4963, 2 September 1918, Page 2

FARM AND COMMERCIAL

LOCAL MARKET REPORTS. The following prices were realised at Gray s weekly sale: —Horses: Good entries were received in the hack, light harness and spring cart sorts, the stamp of horses being good and quite a number changed hands ax satisfactory prices, hi a civs £3 10s to £7, light harness sorts £4 to £9, spring cart horses £7 to £l2. Cows: Two entries, both sold £9 and £lO. Vehicles: One. express £ls. Harness: One set £4 10s, do. £4, double set £3. Saddle: One at 50s. Poultry: (.02 birds penned). Gobblers at Bs, Turkey hens 5s 6d. hens 3s Id to 3s 6d, roosters 2s 9d to 3s 7d, ducks 3s 6d,’ drakes 3s 4d to 3s Od, vegetables were m good demand. Furniture and sundries brisk. Messrs Samson Bros., auctioneers-, report the following prices at their usual weekly on Saturday:—Poultry, Turkey gobblers 12s per head, liens 7s 6d per head, white Leghorn liens, 2s 9d to 3s per head, silver Wyandotte liens’- 3s 6d to 4s- per head, heavy roosters 3s to 3s 3d per lieau, ducks and drakes 3s to 3s Od per head, eggs in plentiful supply Is per dozen,’ prime Canterbury potatoes 15s per cwt, seed potatoes 15s- to 17s Od per cwt, onions 3d per lb, small vegetables as usual.

the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report having held their weekly live stock sale at the Matawhero yards on Wednesday, the 28th hist, when a fair yard.ing of sheep and a few head of cattle came forward. The attendance was slightly below the average. The bulk of the entry was hoggets while a few fat sheep and odd pens of ewes were offered. Good hoggets- again sold readily. There was also « little more demand for the lower grades. There is no doubt that prices will further advance with the splendid growth now evident. Our yarding included 2284 sheep, of which number 1205 sold. Of 17 head of dairy cattle fifteen sold. Nine pigs, all sold. The following prices were realised during the day:—Fat wethers 34s 9d, store wethers 30», fat ewes 28s 9d, lighter 235,-■ ewes in lamb 25s Gd, cull ewes His to 14s, good, woolly hoggets 24s 2d to 25s 2d, medium woolly 21s to 22s Od, good shorn hoggets 22s 9d, medium shorn hoggets 17s 2d. cull hoggets Ss 6d to 13s, dairy cows £TO to £l2, springing heifers £8 to £lO. Bigs: light baconers £2 10s to £3 Is, pofkers 255.