PRODUCE MARKET

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12549, 11 September 1926, Page 6

PRODUCE MARKET

LIFELESS CONDITIONS'

POTATO VALUES LOW. * Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, September m The market this week has been lifetatf in the extreme. Bren potatoes foiled to business beyond occasional sales. On Wednesday they were as low as £3 2s 6d at which figure * little business was done, but £3 5a wae the basis of the bulk of the few operations that took place. To-day them was quite a fair amount of inquiry front Auckland, and sales were made at £3 10a f.o.b.s.i. The Waipahi earlier in tha week took only 1700 sacks for Auckland, and the next boat, the Kurow. la not due to sail until Thursday. When the Whangape sailed for Sydney on Wednesday she took 15,000 odd sacks from all southern ports. There will be another Sydney vessel this month, hut the. date of departure is not yet announced. Some local business has been done for the next Sydney boat at AS a ton f.o.b.s.i. The price offered farm* ers for export is £3 a ton on trucks. For coastal business a few sales of whites have taken place as low as £2 on trucks, and Dakotas have sold rather mors freely at this price. Merchants are not prepared to offer more, and most grow* ers who have "missed the *bus" are dis* posed to reave their tubers in the Port. Oats are again quiet, but prices ars unchanged. A fairly decent parcel or two of wheat . has been offered at 86 a bushel on trucks, J FEttDWGSTOCK SALE RISE IN DAIRY CATTLE ) STORES HARD’ TO QUIT. Per Pr?ss Association. FEILDING. September 19. At the Feilding stock sale there wag a heavy yarding of fat sheep, including some very prime. There was keen competiton for fat ewes, but not so for wethers. Buyers did not want anything not well finished. In the star* pens only hoggets of fsir and medium quality were offered, and sold at lata rates. Fate —Hoggets realised 16s: wethers 27a 4d, 28s to 33s Bd, and 35s 6d; ewes, 265, 28s to 35s 3d, ana 365 ; black-iaced 27s to 30s. Stores—Wether hoggets made 14s, 14s 3d to 17e, and 18s 8d; mixed 6ex hoggets 19s sd; ewe hoggets 15s 7d and 19s lOd; small hoggets, 9s, 10s, and lie Id. There was a medium yarding of all classes of cattle. Dairy stock showed a good rise, especially in heifers. Fat cattle sold at an advance on late sales, and some of the bullocks yarded sold at about £2 per 1001 b. Store cattle wers hard to quit. Best Jersey cross springing heifers made £9, £9 ss, and £lo* medium springing heifers, £3 15s to £6; best dairy cows, £8 10s. £9, and £lo* fate Polled Angus heifer 6. £9 15s; Here, ford cows £lO, bullocks £l2 lte, £l3 ss, and £l3 10s; Hereford heifers £lO, light fat Shorthorn steers £ll 10s.