Weekly Market Report.

Lake County Press, Issue 2348, 27 October 1910, Page 5

Weekly Market Report.

Messrs Watees, Eitchie, and Co., auctioneers, wool, stock, grain, produce, and commission agents, report (wholesale) for the week as under. All quotp.tions are subject to market fluctuations :

Wheat, The market quiet. Best velvet and Tuscan 3/0 -to 4/1, medium 3s Gd to 3s Bd, fowl wheat 3s to 3s 4d (sacks extra). Oats.—Market dull. Milling ‘2s to 2s Id, bright abort feed Is lid to Is HAd, medium and inferior Is 8.1 to Is 10, id. Barley.—We have a good demand for prime malting samples. llabbitskius.—The market remains steady at reduced values. Suckers and runners •Id to od, autumns 12d to 1 Gd, winter bucks IGd to 20d, winter does 30d to

38d, summers 7d to 10<3, outgoings 18d to j 17d per lb, springs lid to l2Ad. ( Sheepskins.—Market easier. Wo quote : i Pelts Is Id to 2s (Id, crossbred 3s to 8/G, extra 8s 3d to 8s 9d, merino 3s to 7s, extra 7s 3d to 8s 6d. | Hides.—Wo hold fortnightly sales. Prime I stout ox 7'd to Bd, heavy do 04 to Gfd medium do Gd to Ggd, light do 5Jd to GjJ 1, damaged 4d to sjd, calfskins 2s Cd to ss, yearlings os to 9s, horse hides 8s to 14s each. Tallow—Rough fat 17/Gto2os, tallow in tins 22s to 265, casks 27s to 30s per cwt. Horsehair.—l7Ad to I9d 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 General Produce Report. Batter.—Best salt lid per lb, dairy butter (in pats) lOd per lb. Eggs.—Fresh 101 d to lid. Honey, 3Jd to 4dperlb. Cheese, Gd to 61, d por lb. Bacon.—Rolls 7d, haras Bd. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baooners 4Jd, porkers 4£d, heavy weights 2*d to 3d. Poultry (local) Roosters 4/3 to 4/G per pair, hens 3s Gd per pair, ducks 4s 3d to 4s Gd pair.