BUTTER MARKET FIRM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 118, 18 April 1934, Page 5

BUTTER MARKET FIRM.

Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., have re- | ceived from London the following cabled advice, dated April 16: —New Zealand butter, firm at 71s per cwt. STOCK MARKET. BULLS SALE. Dalgety and Coy., Ltd., report a small entry in all departments at the Bulls sale. There was a fair attendance of the public, and prices were satisfactory. We quote: B.f. iambs, 16s 3d to 17s 3d; small and medium lambs, 10s 6d to 14s; prime P.A. cows, £4 10s to £5; Jersey cow, £2 12s 6d; store cows, 18s to 255; porkers, £2 ss; large stores, to 24s 6d; slips, to 14s; weaners, 9s to Us 6d. A quantity of sundries and sawn timber sold at market rates. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. WELLINGTON MARKET PRICES. WELLINGTON, April 18. Prices of fruit, vegetables and other produce in the Wellington markets this week are’quoted as. follow : Apples.—Fancy Gravenstein, 3s to 3s 6d a bushel; Jonathans and Delicious, 3s to 4s; cooking apples, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Cox’s Orange, 4s to 7s. Pears. —Fancy Winter Coles and Nebs, 4s to 5s a bushel; Louie Bon Jersey, 3s 6d to 4s; cookers, 3s to 4s. Other fruit. —Cape goseberries, 4s to 4s 6d a half-case; passions, 3s 6d to 4s 6d a half-case; quinces, 8s to 10s bushel; lemons, cured, 15s to 18s bushel; others, 10s to 13s; tomatoes, Hutt red, 2s to 3s half-case; coloured, 2s to 2s 6d half-case; grapes, hothouse, Is to Is 4d per lb. Vegetables. Cucumbers, hothouse, 5s to 6s per case; potatoes, button s, £6 to £6 10s ton; Dakotas, £6 to £6 10s ton; onions, 4s to 5s cental bag; cabbage, Is to Is 6d per case; lettuce, 6d to Is 3d per case; cauliflowers, 2s to 3s per sack; green pe&s, 5s to 10s half-sack; French beans, 4s to Os sugar-bag; scarlet runners, 2s to 3s per case; marrows, 2s to 2s 6d per case, pumpkins, red, 6s to 7s per sack; carrots, to 2*d per bunch; parsnips, 3d to 4d per bunch; swedes, Is to Is 6d per case; white turnips, Is to Is 6d per dozen bunches; spring onions, 9d to Is 3d per bunch; beetroot, 2d to 2j.d per bunch. Eggs.—Fresh, first grade, 2s 2d per dozen.

AUCKLAND MARKETS. SOUTHERN POTATOES ARRIVE. AUCKLAND, April 17. A fairly large shipment of southern potatoes arrived by the Waipiata, and as a consequence merchants had to , revise their price lists. The ruling price today is about £6 10s per ton through store. Substantial quantities of_ locals are still available from a variety of sources. Onions are in steady demand at about 7s per cwt. Supplies of maize continue to come forward from a variety of sources on the East Coast, and a steady demand exists at about 4s 6d per bushel through store. A fresh shipment of. Australian barley arrived yesterday and is being distributed to various stores, lhe price is unaltered at 3s lid to 4s for clipped. Steady and quiet describes the condition of the market for horse feed. Oats, B Gartons, aVe quoted at 3s 3d per bushel. A Gartons at 3s 6d, clipped Duns at 4s 3d, clipped Algerians, New Zealand, 4s 6d and clipped Gartons, 3s 9d.

FARMING NEWS

RURAL RAKINGS,

Decision was reserved in a case heard at the April sitting of the Mornnsville Magistrate’s Court, in which a farm hand was charged with cruelty to pigs caused by cutting their snouts. In entering a plea of guilty counsel for defendant said the snouts had been cut to prevent the pigs rooting. The instrument used was in common use among farmers, but in this case a deeper cut had ben made than was intended. It was admitted that some cruelty had been caused, but this was unintentional. The Magistrate reserved his decision in order to consider legal points raised. _ , “A visit to the Sydney Royal Show is an obsolute education to a New Zealand farmer, if it only serves to illustrate the benefit which Australian breeders are reaping from the importation of livestock from Great Britain and elsewhere. Until I saw the class and standard of Australian pedigree cattle —more particularly the sires—found in the judging rings at the recent Sydney Royal Show, I did not fully realise the loss which the continuation ot this embargo upon stock importations was imposing on New Zealand breeders. This was the opinion expressed by IVir u. J Holden, of Mangateretere, a wellknown Hawke’s Bay farmer on his return from a trip across the Tasman tor the Sydney Royal Show. Club root in turnips and swedes has again played havoc with a large acreage of crops in South Otago, and despite • precautions taken by many farmers the growing of this crop is becoming a most hazardous undertaking in many districts. Chou-nioellier or marrow-stemmed kale, which are immune from the ravages of this disease, has rapidly come into favour as a cattle forage crop in those areas where club-root is rampant. Other farmers again are getting satisfactory results by liming the turnip land some time prior to sowing, and avoiding the use of superphosphate as a turnip manure, preference being given tor basic slag.—Otago Daily Times.