Weekly Market Reports.

Lake County Press, Issue 2158, 28 February 1907, Page 5

Weekly Market Reports.

Messrs A. Moritzson tfe Co., auctioneers, wool, stock and station, grain, produce, and commission agents, corner Bond and Jetty streets, Dunedin, report (wholesale) as follows for the week. All quotations subject to market fluctuations. Farmers are asked, when sending samdles, always to put s price on them, as buyers do not feel inclined to make offers.

Wheat.—Prime milling (new season’s) 8s 4Jd to 3s sd, fowl wheat, scarce, 3s 3£d to 3a 4d. Oats.—Milling 2s B Grade 2s Gd, interior 2s to 2s 3d. Barley.—Good malting inquired for, from 4s Gd to ss, pearling 3s Cd, feed barley 3s. Eyecorn, 2s Gd to 2s 9d. Maize, 4s Cd to 4s 9d. Prussian blue peas.—From 4s Cd to 5s per bushel.

Partridge peas, 4? 3d to ss. Chaff. Prime bright heavy L 5, medium £4 15s, inferior£3 lOsto £4, whoateu straw 535, oaten straw 60s. Clover Hay,—£4 to £5. Ryegrass.— Market remains firm. Farmers’ dressed 4s to 4s 6d. none offering, machine dressed 5s to 5s 6d. Cocksfoot.—Market remains strong. Farmers’ lots 3Jd to 4d, machined 5d to 5Ad. Linseed.—Little offering—Ll3, Chewings Fescue. —There is a good demand. Farmers’ samples 2d to 3d, and machined seed 4d to sd. Potatoes. Prime L 7, medium LG to LG 10a. Onions—Melbourne Brown Globe, Gs. We can offer a few cons of pure fish manure rich in amonia, valuable for root or grain crops (can be uked with drill) at £7 per ton. Monday, and forward account sales every week. We have a good enquiry for all classes. Babbitskins. —We hold our sales every Monday, the market remains firm. We quote as follows Suckers and runners 4d to sd, light racks 7d to Bd, summers full grown 8d to 9d, autumns 14d to 17£ d, incoming winters 13d to 17d, prime winter bucks and does IBd to 19d, blacks lld to ISd, fawns lOd to 13d. Bags and labels supplied. Sheepskins.—Prices are firm and all good conditioned skins are readily sold. We quote—Extra heavy from 10s to 13s, halfbrecls from 7s to 9s, £bred from 7s to Bs, fine crossbred 7s 6d to 8s 6d, crossbred Gs Gd to 7s Gd, 3 bred os Gd to 7s Gd, merino os to Gs Gd, fallen pelts Is Bd to 2s Od, lambskins 2s Gd to 3s, pelts 2s 8d to Ss 3d. HidesWe hold fortnightly sales our last sale was held on 11th January. We sold a large catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. We quote—Extra stout heavy ox 7MI to 84d, heavy G.',d to 7/jd, medium Gd to Ggd, lirrht 51 d to 7d/oows stout heavy 6/jd to 7§d, heavy Gd to 7d, medium to Ggd, light s§d to CSd, stags and bulls 4d to sd, yearlings 4ld to SM, Calf-skins 2s to 5s Gd, horehides 9s to 11s Gd, cut and slippy hides id to lid lb There is a good demand for all classes especially clean hair which is quoted from 17d to 20£ d, mixed IGd to 19d. Bough Fat—From Ids to 15s Od ; rendered fat from 14s to 19s; clean white rendered mutton from 19s to 2ln. Tallow (in casks),— From 22s to 28s. Storing Grain.—We are prepared to store, receive, deliver, and insure with three months’ free storage at 3d per sack. Grass-seed cleaning. We advise farmers to consign all their seeclo t us, as the cleaning will be attended to with up-to-date machinery, and the cleaned seed sold or returned free of railage. We supply new and second-hand sacks, also stack, cow covers, and all other farmers’ material. _ Par it Produce and Fruit,

We receive all binds of consignments ahd render account sales promptly. Walnuts, Cd to 7d. Salt Butter. Milled 10d, separatorlid ; factory, Is. Fresh Butter.—ln pats, storekeepers lots, 8d to B£d. Eggs —Fresh, Is 3d to Is 4d. Cheese. —Factory 63d to 7d, Akaroa to 5?-d, loaf more. Honey.—ln good demand. Section honey (new season’s) 6s Cd to 9s per doz, bulk large tins 4d to small tins 4d to 4Jd. Onions Melbourne 6s. Beeswax, Is 3d to Is 4d. Hams. —7d to Bd. Bacon.—Rolls, 7id to 8d; sides, %l to (id, slow of sale. Pies. Porkers up to 43d, first-class baconers up to 1701bs 4*d to 4}d; overweights, 2£d to 3d. Poultry for Local Consumption.—Market clutted—Hens Is Cd to 2s, roosters 2s Cd to 3s Cd, ducks, 2s fid to 3s Cd; turkey hens 5d cooks 7d to per lb, live weight.

Messrs Waters, Ritchie, and Co., auctioneers, wool, stock, grain, produce, and commission agents, report (wholesale) for the week as under. All quotations are subject to market fluctuations : Wheat.— ln good demand. We quote— Best velvet and Tuscan 3s 4cl to sd, medium 3s 2d, fowl wheat 3s 2d (sacks extra). Oats.— Market brisk. Milling 2s 6d bright short feed 2s sd, inferior 2s Id to 2s 3d Barley.—We have a good demand for prime malting samples. Rabbitskins. Auction sales every fortnight during the off season, We offered a largo catalogue this week, when competition was brisk at last week’s prices. Suckers and runners 4d to Cd, autumns 12d to 14d, summers Gd to 9d per lb, winters 154 dto 19d, selected does 20d to 21d per lb. Sheepskins.—We held our usual weekly sale on Tuesday, when we offered a large catalogue, and competition was keen. Prices remained firm at late quotations. "We quote: Pelts 2s to 3s fid, crossbred 4s 9d to 9s, extra 9s fid to 11s Od, merino 4s to 7s, extra 7s Cd to Bs, Hides.—We hold fortnightly sales. Prime ox 7-jd to Bd, heavy do Gtd to 7Jd, medium do G)d to 7d, light do Gjd to calf skins Is 9d to 4s, yearlings 2s Od to 7s (id, horse hides 7s to 8s each.

Tallow—Rough fat 15s to IGs Gd, tallow in tins 19s to 225, casks 22a to 23s per owt.

Horsehair. —Keen demand from 17dto 20.1 per lb. Wc store and dross all classes of seed and grain. All onr machinery is of the latest and most effective design, and is operated by practical men of long experience, Seeds. —We have now on sale a specially selected stock of grass and clover seeds, which we quote as follows; Heavy machined ryegrass 3s Gd to ss, medium 3s 9d to 4s 3d cocksfoot 4.1 d to aid, Italian 4s 3d to 4s Gd. white clover 10d to Is Id, alsike 9d to lOd. eowgrass Sd to lOd, Timothy Gd. Samples on application. Orr’s Californian Thistle Weed Destroyer (used by the N.Z. Government). Wo aupp.y this in I gal. tins at 10s, and ogal. drums at as per gal. It is easily applied and thoroughly effective. We recommend ft- trim* General Produce Report. Butter.—Best salt '9d to 9id per lb, dairy butter (in pats) Bld per lb. Eggs.—ls 2d. ~ Honey, 3d to 4d per lb. Cheese. G:?d per lb. Bacon. —Rolls Sd, hams B.)d, Pigs in good demand at 4ld, heavy weights 3ld to 4d. Poultry (local) Boosters 3s _Gd per pair, hens 2s per pair, ducklings •>& per pair. Export—Wo have received increased orders for South Africa. Full particulars on application. Note All export poultry is carried railage free if. consigned to the Department of Agriculture. We ; supply crates on loan. —Prize-bred Poultry: If you wish to purchase or have any stock for sale, write to us. We can guarantee you satisfaoion.