FARMERS' COLUMN.

Lake County Press, Issue 2634, 1 June 1916, Page 5

FARMERS' COLUMN.

o Weekly Market Report. Strooßch, Morris and Co.. Ltd., report (or week ended Thursday. 35th May, as follows : Fat Cattle 191 yarded, consisting chiefly of bullocks cf good quality. Although it was a large yarding, prices were about the same as last week. Quotations : Beet bullocks £l6 to £18; extra to £24; medium £l4 10s to £ls 10s ; best cows and heifers £l2 10s to £l4 15b; extra to £l7 10s; medium £8 10s to £lO 10s; others 16 10s to £B. Fat Sheep.—36sl penned. A largo yarding of good quality. Competition was keen, and prices were a little better than last week’s rates: There were some pens of extra show sqeep to hand, lor which there was keen competition and extreme prices were paid. Best wethers 32s to 345; extra show sheep 50s to 110s ; medium to good 28s to 30s 6d ; light 22a to 24b 6d ; prime ewes 30s to 34s ; extra 72a ; good 27s to 28s 6d ; medium 21s to 22s 6d. p Fat Lambe.—ll43 penned. Competitien (or lambs of good quality wae keen, and prices were firm at late rates. Quotations : Best lambs 22s to 24s 6d ; extra show lambs 35s to 46s ; good 19s to 21s Cd ; others 14s 6d to 17s. Pigs. -A small yarding of both fats and stores, and prices were very high for both classes. Quotationsßest baooners to 106s; medium to good 85s to 955; best porkers to 75s ; medium to 65s ; slips to 23s ; suckers from 14s to JBs 6d. * Babbitskins: —We held a sale on 22nd Inst., when we submitted a medium catalogue to the usual attendance of buyers. Competition was keen, and late values were about maiutaiued. Quotations : -Early winters to 19j/d; racks ll|d to I2j/d; light racks to early autumns to 170; autumns and incoming to 18|d ; summers to tolled; black to 26d ; catakins to 4sd each; hareskins to 12£ d. Horsehair IBd to 18|d per ib. Sheepskins Our next sheepskin sale will be held on Tuesday, 30th inst. Hides.—We held out fortnightly sale of hides on Thursday, 18bh inst., when we submitted a medium catalogue to the usual'.attendance of buyers. Competition was good and prices ruled well up to last sale’s rates, or perhaps a shade over. Quotations Stout heavy ox to ll£d; medium to 10|d; heavy cow hides to IOJd ; yearlings to 10|d ; best calfskins to 12£ d; medium to 11 id; others 4d to 8d per lb. Horse hides from 6s 6d to 10s each. Oats.—There has been a fair enquiry on the part of buyers during the last few days ior A grade Gartons. Feed lines have met with a fair demand, and are saleable at quotations. Prime milling 2s 3d to 2s 4d; good to best feed 2s 2d to 2s 3d per bushel (sasks extra). Wheat.—The markes is unchanged. Prime lines of velvet and Tuscan are saleable to millers, but medium lines have no demand at all except as fowl feed. Good whole fowl wheat is still offering very freely, and is bard to place. Prime milling velvet 5s Id io 5s 2d; prime milling Tuscan 4s 3d to 4s 6d; best whole fowl wheat 3s XOd te 4s; medium 3s 6d to 3s 9d per bushel (sacks extra), Chaff.—There is not a very keen demand, and the quantity coming forward is sufficient to supply present requirements. Only prime quality is in favor with buyers, and light and discolored lines are not readily dealt with, even at lace rates Quotations Best oaten sheaf £3 10s to £3 15s; medium to good £3 to £3 7s 6d per ton (sacks extra). Potatoes Fair supplies are coming forward, and any lines in good sound condition are saleable at late values. Best table potatoes £5 to £5 ss; medium to good £4 10a to £4 15s per ton (sacks in). Weekly Market Report. Messrs Wax'KßS, Ritchib, 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 quiet. Prime velvet 4/ll 5/1, other sorts 4/3 to 4/6 per bushel on trucks. Oats.—Better demand. Milling 2/4 to 2/5, 6d, bvight short feed 2s 3d, medium and inferior 1/10 to 2/2. Babbitskins.—Auction sales fortnightly. Market very firm. Summers lOd to 12d, early winters 20d to 21d, autumns lod to 18d, Sheepskins Keen demand. Crossbreds lOd to 11 jd, fallen ekins from 7d to IOJd, pelts 4d to 9d per lb. Hides—Market , firm. Ox 10d to cow BJd to lOd. Tallow Market] aotive. Rough fat 16s to 20s, tallow in tins 24? to 30s, casks 28s to 303 per cwt. Horsehair.—l3d to 2ld per lb. We store find 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 OINBBAL PfIODDCE ReFOBT, Butter Best salt 1/3 per lb, dairy butter (in pats) .1/1 per lb Eggs—Fresh, 2/2, Honey 4Jd per lb. Cheess, Bsd per lb. Bacon.—Bolls Is, hams Is Id. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baooners GJd, porkers 6Jd, heavy weights 4d. Poultry (local) Boosters tc 4/- per pair, hens 3s per pair, ducks 4/0 a pair.