DAIRY PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 1 December 1933, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE.

BUTTER IMPROVES SLIGHTLY. .CHEESE STEADY. There was a slight improvement in the London butter market on Wednesdeay, quotations, rising 2s to 3s a. cwt to 735-745. 745. Thp cheese market was slow, but steady. Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., have received from London the following cabled advice, dated November 29:—New Zealand butter: 735-74 s per cwt. Quiet. Now eZaland cheese: White, 49s por cwt; coloured, 48s. Steady. W. Wcddel and Co., Ltd., London, report dated November 29:—Butter: ish, 112 s. Now Zealand, finest, 7ls-745. Kangaroo, finest, 695-725. Chcose: New Zealand, white, 495-50 s; New Zealand, coloured, 465-475. Markets steadier. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., have received tho following advico from their London house, dated November 29:—Dairy produce (last week’s quotations in parentheses) :—Butter: New Zealand, choicest salted, 73s per cwt (80s-81s), market steadier. Cheese: White, 49s per cwt (475-48 s) : small supplies available. Coloured: 47s per cwt (475-48 s); 48s); market slow. LAMB PRICES NOMINAL. WETHERS AND EWES HIGHER. ‘ FROZEN MEAT QUOTATIONS. Lamb prices are nominal pending the new season’s arrivals; wethers are par to id higher; and ewes Id to id higher. Tho foregoing advice has been recoived by M. A. Eliott, Ltd., from Gordon, Woodroffe and Coy., Ltd., London. The following are Smithfield prices for the week ending November 3Q, 1933 (these prices arc on the “delivered” basis, that 13, including storage charges, cartage, etc.) Best North Island prime lambs, under 36, 36-42, 42-50, not quoted; ordinary North Island lambs, under 42, second quality under 42 not quoted; best North Island wethers and/or maiden ewes, 48-56, 56-64, 64-72 not quoted* over 72 3Jd; ordinary North Island wethers and/or maiden owes, 48-56 and 56-64 4fd, 64-72 and[ over 72 3gd; North Island ewes, under 64 3gd, 04-f<S and. over 72 3id. PAHIATUA CATTLE SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report on the supplementary cattle sale held in Pahiatua on Tuesday when a fair yarding of cattle came forward and sold up to late rates. There was a keen demand for cattle from local buyers, and outside buyers from Wanganui, Manawatu and Dannevirke were not able to buy on account of tho small yarding brought forward. We yarded 200 head and prices were as under:—Account A. lloggard: Bullocks, £4 19s. Account M. S. Alpass: Yearling steers, £3 3s £2 Bs. Account B. Wright, Tiraumea: Yearling steers, £3 3s 6d. Account L. Houlbrooke; Yearling steers, £3 3s, £2 9s; two-year steers, £3 9s. Account M. S. Alpass: Yearling heifers, £2 2s. Account W. H. Wallis: Yearling heifers, £2 11s. Account W. E. Moss: Yearling heifers (small), 325. Account C. Raleigh: Yearling steers, £2 10s. Account G. M. Curtis: Yearling steers. £2 6s; empty cows, 275, 27s fid and 21s. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, Nov. 30. Thu wheat market is firm. Country rates are bagged 2s. Id, and bulk 2s a bushel, equal to about 2s 8d ex trucks, Sydney. Flour, £9 a ton. Bran, £4 10s a ton. Pollard, £5 a ton. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £7 to £8 a ton; Victorian, to £4; others, £7. Onions, Victorian Spanish, £3 10s to £4 a ton. Oaten hay, £7 10s a ton. Maize, 3s 8d to 3s 9d a bushel. ADELAIDE, Nov. 30. Wheat.—Growers’ lots. 2s s?cl a bushel. Flour, bakers’ lots, £7 10s a ton; and pollard, £5 2s 6d. a ton. Oats, Is 10d a bushel. Barley, 2s Id to 2s 4d a bushel. OVERSEAS WHEAT MARKETS.. LONDON, Nov. 29. Wheat cargoes opened quiet, and 3d to 6<l easier, but were firmer on Argentina’s official control of exports. Buyers are awaiting further developments. Parcels were in - quiet demand, Australians being 3d down.. A West Australian parcel, December shipment, sold at 23s a quarter.* Futures: London, December, 19s a quarter; February, 19s Id; April, 19s sd; Liverpool, December, 4s 4d a cental; March, 4s 7|d; May, 4s 9£d. . NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Chicago wheat futures.—December, 83| cents a bushel; May, 87£ cents; July, 87| cents; New York, cash, 95i cents. RURAL RAKINGS. The Auckland yield of fruit this season promises to be prolific and, although it is too early to prophesy with any certainty, it, is considered likely that the production of many varieties will be greater than that of last year. As a result of mild weather in the late winter and early spring the strawberry crop is well advanced a,nd considerable quantities of the berries are coming forward daily. The number of plants cultivated in the Auckland district is estimated to be in the vicinity of 3,500,000, or about the same as last year. Like most other farm products potatoes have been very cheap in Scotland for the last; two seasons, the choicest varieties selling at. £2 a ton and under. Considering the cost of labour and land this is a ruinous price,, and a writer in a Homo paper points out the value of potatoes for cattle, and argues- that they are much above roots, but have to be used judiciously. There is ’nothing- /can beat boiled potatoes for pigs, and in Ireland this is the stable diet. Mixed with Indian (maize) m eal with a liberal supply of milk, it is wonderful how quickly the healthy weaner is : converted into tho baconer of from 1201 b to 1401 b.