ON THE LAND

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 23, 26 December 1925, Page 5

ON THE LAND

DAIRY PRODUCE. MORE INQUIRY FOR BUTTER. Dalgety and Coy., Ltd-, report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date of 23rd inst: Butter: Rather more enquiry. We quote New Zealand salted 168 s (1725), Danish 174 s (180 s), Australian finest salted 100 s (1645), unsalted 162 s (170 s). Cheese: Market slow. New Zealand white and coloured 100 s to 102 s (104 s to 106 s), Canadian white and coloured 106 s to 108 s (106 s to 108 s).

FROZEN MEAT. DULL TRADE. Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., report having received the following cablegram from their London house under date 'of 23rd inst: Lamb: New Zealand prime crossbred lamb, Canterbury heavy. light 101 d j north Island heavy 7d, light 9d. The demand for New Zealand lamb has not improved with the change in prices; the market is weaker. Mutton: New Zealand prime crossbred mutton, Canterbury heavy 6Jd, light 7d; North' Island heavy 6£d, light 76? The demand for New Zealand mutton is better owing to tho cold weather. In the market for New Zealand mutton any change in prices is in favour of sellers. Beef: New' Zealand prime ox beef, hinds 4|d, fores 4fd. There iB a fair demand for New Zealand beef; market firm. Australian frozen meat: G.a.q. crossbred lamb, Australian heavy n.q., light BJd; mutton, heavy n.q.,, light sd. Tho demand for Australian mutton is fair; demand for lamb limited. Pork: The market continues very fair; quotations are unchanged. Owing to Christmas all classes of frozen meat on spot are extremely dull.

FROZEN "MEAT. LONDON QUOTATIONS. LONDON, Dec. 24. Following aro the latest quotations for frozen and chilled meats: Sheep.—New' Zealand ew'es, 4|d per Lambs.—Canterbury, seconds, B£d. Australian, firsts, Victorian, 9d; others 83d; seconds, Victorian, 81d; others, BJd; thirds, Bd. Frozen Beef. —New Zealand, hinds, sd. , , Chilled Beef. —Argentine, fores, 4Jd; hinds, Other descriptions are unchanged in price.—A. and N.Z. cable.

BUTTER AND CHEESE,

LONDON MARKET QUIET

LONDON, Dec. 24. The butter market is very quiet. Quotations are: New' Zealand, choicest salted, 164 sto 1665; exceptionally, 168 s; unsalted, 166 sto 1725. Australian, salted, 156 s to 160 s; unsalted, 158 sto 1625. Danishj 172 sto 1745. The cheese market is dull, New Zealand, 100 s to 102 s and N.Z. cable.

LONDON MARKET REPORTS,

LONDON, Dec. 24

Cotton. —The Liverpool quotation for American middling upland cotton, January delivery is 9.01 d per lb. Rubber. —Fine hard Para, 49d per lb; plantation and smoked, 45}d. J ute. —J anuary-February shipment, £4O per ton. ■ Copra. —December-January shipment £29 6s per ton. Linseed Oil. —£34 10s per ton. Turpentino.—6Bs per cwt. Antimony.—English, £95 per ton; foreign, £B7 10s. Sugar.—Granulated, 28s IOJd.

ARTIFICIAL WOOL,

ITAIfIAN INVENTION

LONDON, Dec. 24

Bradford is manifesting a most lively interost in a story that the Italian patentees are prepared to co-operate with Yorkshire manufactiirers in developing a process for making artificial wool, details of which are not at present disclosed beyond a hint that a certain amount of genuine wool, plus wood-pulp, will be used. It is understood that the Bradford group will go to Italy in the New Year to investigate the claims of the process, capital for which is said to have been offered in London. Messages from Bradford suggest that the process has been evolved from ideas gained in making artificial silk, one type of which is made from silk waste, said to resemble wool somewhat.—A. and N.Z. cable.

The Farmers’ Union of Otago, dissatisfied with the present way of selling fat stock for local consumption, has under consideration a scheme- for remedying the faults that the present method is said to have, states an exchange. The effect of the new scheme would be to cut out altogether the Burnside fat stock market by having stock killed at the nearest refrigerating works and kept in cold storage in the city, to be sold by the pound. This method, it is stated, is followed in many of the big markets of tho world.