COMMERCIAL

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 23 May 1924, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

Messrs Waters, R tchie and Co., auctioneers, wool, grain, produce, and commission agents, report wholesale for the week as under.

All quotations are subject to market fluctuations.

Wheat. Good demand at Government prices.

Oats.—Fair demand. Milling 4s 3d, bright short feed 4s on tiucks. Rabbitskinß. Very keen demand at late rates. We quote racks 37d to 38d light racks 34d to 35d, email 20d to 24d, summers 31d to 34d, milky does 28d to 30d, early autumns to 44d, late autumus to 4Sd, incomings to 60d per lb. Next sale May 20th Hides.—Market easier. Stout ox to 13d," medium 7Jd to 9J 5, light 5d to 6d. Cows, sd; calfskins, best to 15d, medium to 13d, damaged 5d to lOd, heavy calf 6d to 8d per lb. Sheepßking.—Keen demand at ex treme rates.

Tallow. —Market firm. Rough fat, 14s to 18a; tallow in tinß, 21s to 245; cas!'?, 25s to 80s per cwt. Horsehair.—Fair demand 22d to 25d lb; firm.

We store ana dress all classes of seed and i rain. All our machinery is of the latest and most effective design, and is operated by practical mer. of long experience. General Produce Report. Gutter.— Best silt, Is fid rer lb dairy butter in pat#, Is 5 t. Eggs.—Fresh, 2s per dozen, Poultry. (Local) mooters, 5= Gd per pair; hens, 3s per pair; clucks, 5s 6d, Honey.—B'J per lb. Pigs.—ln good demand. Baconers 7d. heavy weights, 4d; porkers, 6Jd. Bacon—ls Id pur lb. Cheepe—lOld per lb.