AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL

Lake County Press, Issue 2168, 9 May 1907, Page 5

AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL

There is a good inquiry in Christchurch for both wheat and bats; but there a nothing offering. Holders of wheat are evidently determined to trust to the future of the market and supplies of oats in any quantity will no doubt have to be obtained in Southland. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following cable from their. London offlce dated 30th April -—Wool. The wool sales opened with Bpirit. As compared with last sales closing rates, prices are lower par to 5 per cent for coarse and Fine crossbred fi to 8J for medium crossbred. The principle decline has been in crossbred. The market J3 firm for wasty merino-. Buraside Stock Sale. Best bullocks, £9 10s to £10; medium £8 to £9 ss; best heifers to £9 12s Cd, medinm from £C to £7 12s 6d. Best wethers, 22s to 24s 6d; extra, to 2Cs; good 17s to 20s ; mediuni 12s to 13c. Beat eweß 16s Cd to 18s Cd; extra to 19s Gd. Weekly Market Eeporfcs. Messrs A. Moritzbon & Co., auctioneers, wool, stook and station, grain, produce, and commission agents, oorner 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 b, price on them, as buyers do not feel inclined to make offers. Wheat.—Prime milling 3s GJd to 3s 7d, fowl wheat 3s 3d to 3s 4Jd. Oats.—Milling 2s 7d, B Grade 2s CJd, inferior 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Barley.—Good/malting inquired for, from 4s Cd to ss, pearling 3s Cd, feed barley 3s. Ryecorn,3s 9dto 4s 3d. Maize, 4s 3d to 4s Cd. Prussian blue peas.—From 4s Cd to 5s per bushel.

Partridge peae, 4s Od to ss. Chaff. Prime bright heavy L 5, medium £4 15s, inferior £3 10s to £4, whoaten straw 40s, oaten straw 455. Clover Hay.—£4 15s to £6 prime. Byegrass. —Market remains firm. Farmers' dressed 4s 6d to 4s 9d, none offering, machine dressed 5s Gd to 6s. Cocksfoot. —Market remains strong. Farmers' lots to 4Jd, machined o.fd to shd. Linseed.—Ll3 to Ll4, Chewings Foacue.—There is a good demand. Farmers' samploß 4d to 4Jd, and maohined seed 5d to 6d. Potatoes. Prime L 4 medium L 3. Onions—Melbourne Brown Spanish, 5s Gd. We can offer a few tons of pure fish manure rich in amonia, valuable for root or grain orops (can be used with drill) at £7 per ton. Monday, and forward account sales every week. We have a good enquiry for all classes. Eabbitskins.—We hold our sales every Monday, the market remaing firm. We quote as follows:—Suckers and runners Gd to 7d, light racks Sd to 9d, summers full grown 9d to lOd, autumns 12d to 12Jd, inooming winters 14d to 15d, blacks 9d to 13d, fawns lOd to lid. Bags and labels supplied. Sheepskins.—Prices"are firm and all good conditioned skins are readily sold We quote—Full-wooled halfbreds lOdto Helper lb, do. crossbred 9d to lOd, do. merino 7£d to Bsd, halfbred pelts B.Jd to 9d, crossbred pelts BJd to 9d, merino pelts 7d to 7id, lambskins 9d to 9id per lb. Hides :—We hold fortnightly sales our last sale waa held on 3rd May. We sold a large catalogue to a good attendance of buyers. We quote—Extra stout heavy ox 7§d, heavy 7d to 7£d, medium GJd 'to 7d, light 5Jd to cows stout heavy 6Jd, heavy 6d to 6|d, medium 5Jd to Cd, light s£d to 6£d, stags and bulls 4Jd to 5Jd, yearlings Sh to 6|d, Calf-skins 2s 6d to 4s 6d, horehides 10s 6d to 12s 6d, cut and slippy hides £d to l£d lb Horsehair—There is a good demand for all classes especially clean hair which is quoted from 17d to 19d, mixed 17d to 18d. Bough Fat—From 17s to 183. Tallow (in tins) 16s to 22a, prime white mutton (in tins) 20s to 255, do. in casks 27s to 28s, mixed tallow 16s to 203. 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 seedo 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, aIBO stack, cow covers, and all other farmers' material. Farm Produce axd Fruit. We receive all kinds of consignments and render account sales promptly. Walnuts, 6d te 7d. Salt Butter. Fresh Butter.—ln pats, storekeepers lots, BJd to 9d. "Eggs.—Fre3h, Is lOd. Cheese.—Factory O:Jd to 7d, Akaroa Gd to Cd, loaf £d more. Honey.—ln good demand. Section honey (new 6d to 9s per doz, bulk large tins 4d to 4Ad, small tins 4Ad to 4Jd. Beeswax, Is 3d to Is 4d. Hams.—Bd to 9d. Baoon.—Bolls, 8d to BAd ; sides, sid to Gd, slow of sale. Piga. Porkers up to 4jjd, first-class baconers up to 1701bs 3d; over-, weights, 4d to 4£d. Poultry for Looal Consumption.—Market glutted—Hens Is 6d to 2s, roosters 3s to 4s, ducks, 23 9d to 33 Gd; turkey hens 5d cocks 7d to per lb, live weight. For Export, free of railage, if consigned to Agricultural Department—We are now packing fowls 2s to 2s Gd (weights 3Jlb to 41b and over), chickens 3s 3d to 4s, geese 4s Gd to ss, duoks 2b 6d to 3s Gd, turkeys 5d to 7d. Messrs Waters, Bitchie, 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— Beßt velvet and Tuscan 3s 7cl to 3s Bd, medium] 3s 5d to 3s 6d, fowl wheat 3s 4d (sacks extra). Oats.—Market brisk. Milling 2s 7d bright short feed 2s Gd to 23 Gdjd, inferior 2s to 2s sd. Barley.—We have a good demand for prime malting samples. Eabbitskins. Auction sales every ortnight during the off season. We offered a large catalogue this week, when competition was brisk at last week's prices. Suckers and runners 4d to Gd, autumns lid to 14d, summers Gd to lOd per lb. Sheepskins.'—We held our usual weekly saio on Tuesday, when we offered a large catalogue, and competition was keen. Prices remained firm at late quotations. We quote: Pelts 2s to 4s (id, crossbred 4s 9d to 9s, extra 9s Gd to lis Gd, merino 4s to 7s, extra 7s Gd to Bs. Hides.—We hold fortnightly sales. Prime ox 7;Jd to Bd, heavy do C'.-d to 7£d, medium do G.|d to 7d, light do GJd to GJd, calf skins is 9d to 4s, yearlings 2s Od to 7s 6d, horse hides 7s to 8s each. Tallow—Bough fat 17s to 183, tallow in tins 20s to 245, casks 25s to 30s per cwt. Horsehair.—Keen demand from 17d to 19d per lb. We store and dress all classes of seed and grain. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective design, and is operated by practical men of long experience. gceils.-We have now on sale a specitvllj

selected stock of »vass ami clover soils which 1 we quote us follows:—Heavy machined rye- ' to .">;, medium 3s 9>l to -Is !>d gl'aSS »" u>. • Italian 43 :M to 4s lid. cocksfoot tid to rtjr-i • 'ikfi !)d to 10d, white cltlver 101 to Ik 13, «•.- "dwbmsS fti to K'4, Timothy CJ, iHhu; Vn .„ on appli(3ilt!'J:h Orr's Califc-rnian Thisiie Weed (used by the N.Z. Government); We supply this in Igal, tins at 10s; and Sgal. drums at 8s per gal'. It is eariiiy applied nr'd thoroughly efiotittve We Vfcciimiixahct ti trial! General Produce HijpoiH'. Gutter. -Best salt !ld to 9Jd per lb, dairy butter (in pats) lid per lb. Eggs.—is JOd. Honey, 4d per lb. Cheese, 0J J per lb. Bacon.—Rolls B.WI, hams '.ld. Pigs in good e )jlarid at Sd, ( he!ivy weights 3.M to 4d. M (local) -~ Ro'b'sters. &? .Gd per ptwr, hens "is pei p'fiir; drte'fflJn'fts .tfs per pair. Export —We have Increased orders for South Africa. Fall particulars on application. Note All export p.ioltry is carried railage free if consigned to the Department of Agriculture We supply orates on loan.—Prize-bred Poultry : If you wish to purchase ci have fifty stock for sale, write to tu. We can tiuarantee you satiafaciori; THE eftEBBiTY OUANOER AND SOUS' PURE VOLATILE EUCALYPTI EXTRACT 13 universally acknowledged. Royalty honors it, and the entire medical profession haa adopted its use, Imitations Sprtißg Up without iiU;2'Per. Tll e latest of them—all styled " Extracts '—WHS an oil foisted upon the trusting and unwary under the grossest misuso of Sander and Sons' reputation; SaHtfer tfnd. Hon?' instituted an action at the Supreme Court o'i Tidtoria, before his Honor Chief Justioe Sir J. Madden, K.C.M.G., etc., and at the trial a sworn witness testified that he had to Btop the use of counterfeits on account of the irritation produced. This shows what care is required to obtain an article that is scientifically tested and approved of. As such is solely endorsed and recommendedi THE GENUINE SANDER A SONS' PURE VOLATILE, EUCALYPTI EXTRACT!