FARMERS' COLUMN.

Lake County Press, Issue 2459, 2 January 1913, Page 5

FARMERS' COLUMN.

Weekly Market Report. Messrs Watkrs, Ritchie, and Co., auctioneers, wool, grain, produce, and commission agents, report (wholesale) for the week as under. All quotations are subject to market fluctuations ; Wheat—Market easier. Best velvet and Tuscan 3/9 to 3/10-, medium 3/7 to 3/8, fowl wheat 3/3 to 3/6 (sacks eztra). Oats.—Market brisker. Milling 2/4, bright hort feed 2/2 to 2/3, medium and inferior Is 9d to Is lid. ' Barley.—We have a good demand for prime malting samples. liabbitskins—Great demand and extreme prices ruling. "'"' Suckers and runners 5d to 7<i, summers 7.Jd to lOd, autumns 13d to 17c!, early winters lGd to IBd, winters 19d to 30d. winter does 3Cd to 00d, selected does to 70d per lb. Sheepskins—Sales weakly. The demand is good, and prices firmer. We quote : Pelts 1/3 to 2s 3d "crossbred 3/- to 8/6, extra 8s 9d 10/, merino 2/9 to 4/-, extra to 8/6. Hides.—We hold fortnightly siles. Prime stout ox 91 to do 8.J4 toß|d medium o 7Jdto B*d, light do 7sd to Shi, damaged 4d to 7d, calfskins 2/6 too/-, yearlings 6/6 to 10s, horse hides 8s to 14s eicii. Tallow—Rough fat 16s to lit-., tallow in tins 2ls to 235, casks 26s to 27s per cu. Horsehair.— 18:} dto 2:31 per Jb. Wo storo and dress all classes of sued and grain. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective design, ami is op-rated by practical men of long experience Gknkual Phoduce lUa-oar. Butter. —Best salt 9id per lb, dairy butter (in pats) 8d to S-Jd per 1 ». Eggs—Fresh is, stamped is IJ. Fair demand. Honey, 4d per lb. Chees'j, to 7d ;>or lb. Baeoa. —Uoll.ii 9vl, hihh 19.V1. Pigs.—ln good demand, liacaners 0.-Jd, porkers sid;hoavy waighta to 3d. Poultry (local)—Hoostora 4/6 to 5/6 per pair hens to 2s 9d per pair, duaJdiogs os to 5i 6.1 a pair.