Weekly Market Report.

Lake County Press, Issue 2461, 16 January 1913, Page 5

Weekly Market Report.

Messrs Waters, Hitctiie, 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/G (sacks e>;tra). Oats.—Market quiet. Milling 2/4, bright hort feed 2/2 to 2/3, medium and inferior Is 9d to Is lid.

Barley.—We havo a good demand for prime malting samples. Rab'oitskins —Great demand and extreme urices ruling. Suckers and runners 5d to 7(1, summers 7VI to 101. autumns 13d to 17d, earlv winters 16d to IS!, winters 19d to 30d. winter does 30d to GOd per lb. Sheepskins—-sahis weakly. Tne demand is good, and prices firmer. We qu>te: P«lts /3 to 2s 3d. croasbred 3/- to s/(i. extra 8s 9d 10/, merino 2/9 to 4/-. extra to 8/(5 Hides.—We hold fortnightly s ■s. Prime stout ox 9 I to;)id,hjavvdoß}i 'B,' 1 me i:u-u to 7|d to BW, light do 7fd to Sid.d.t naged Id to 7d, calfskins 2/0 too/-, yearlings 0/0 to 10s, horse hides 8s to 1 is ewc.b.

Tallow—Bough fat His to lOs.tillowin tins 21s to 235, casks 2G< to 27s cvt. Horsehair.--18.J-1 to 22 I pet" lb. We stors and dress all classes of seed and grain. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective design, and is o t < ra, ed by practical men of long e^oertence Genekal Pkopuck ItEi'onr.

Butter. -Best salt per lb, dairy butter (in pats) 8d to BJd per 10. Eggs—Fresh is, stamped is Id. Fair de mand.

Ho'iey, -ill per lb. Cheese, GJd to 7d per lh. Bacon. tiolls 9 Vd, nuns l'.).J I. Pigs.—ln good dem mi. li.wjjners ij'} 1, pcrkers sjd, heavy weights 2£d to 3J. Poultry (local) Hoosters 4/0 to 5/0 pur pair oens to 2s [ld per pair, ducklings 5s \.o Ha GJ a'pair.