CLEARING SALE AT HAYWARD'S POINT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2725, 6 June 1906, Page 36

CLEARING SALE AT HAYWARD'S POINT.

The Otago Farmers' Co-operative Association of New Zealand (Limited) report having held a sale of dairy cattle at Mr E- Mickleeon's homesteaa at Hayward's Point. The ■weather was perfect and there was a large attendance of buyers from the Waitati, Peninsula, and surrounding districts, and the whole of the herd was disposed of at highly satisfactory prices to the vendor. Cows realised from £2 to £ 6 2s 6d. Implements, etc., sold at market rates.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET. Messrs Donald Reid and Co. (Ltd.) report: "We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Tuesday. Our catalogue included feed oats, fowl wheat, potatoes, carrots, chaff, straw, hay, and turnips. For most of these lines there was fair competition, and nearly all the lots <Sn offer were cleared at satisfactory prices. Values ruled as under: —

Oats.— The supply of good to prime feed and milling pats is restricted, and only moderate business in these lines has been done during the past week. Grojrers are cot disposed to accept prc?ent prices, and as quotations are fully u}> to shippers' limits most of the oats coming forward arc meantime going into store. Seed lines now have more attention. Quotations: Seed lines, 2s 6d to 2s 9d; prime milling, 2s 4£d to 23 sd; good to best fed, 2s 4d to 2s 4Jd; medium, 2s 2d to 23 3d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — Only moderate offerings nave been made of -late, anA of +hese prime lines of Tußcan'have met with most favour. Millers' requirements are chiefly for prime samples. Heaium quality, therefore, has little attention. Fow! -wheat ia scarce, and is sure ofready sale on arrival. Quotations: Prime milling, 3« 5a to 3s fid", choice, to 3s 7d; medium to good, 3s 3d to 3s 4Jd ; best whole fowl wheat, 3s Id to 3s 2d; broken, damaged, and medium, 23 8d to 3s per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes.— Supplies from both Oamaru and southern districts 'have increased considerably during the Past week. These consignments, combined with Australian importations, have had gome effect on values, and for table sorts prices are a shade easier. Prime seed lines of Up-to-Datea, Lapatones. etc., have still good inquiry, and prices for these show little alteration. Quotations: Best white sorts, £11 10s to £12; others, £10 10s to £11 ss; best table sorts, £10 10s to £10 15s; medium do, £9 10s to £10 5s per ton (sacks included). Chaff. — Loca.l demand is almost entirely confined to prime oaten sheaf, fair supplies of which pre now coming forward. Medium and inferior sorts have little inquiry. Quotations: Prime oaten sheaf. £4 to £4 ss; medium to good, £3 10s to £3 17s 6d ; light and inferior, £3 to £3 7s 6d per ton (bags extra). Straw.— The market is fully supplied with wheaten straw, which sells at 35s to 37s 6d per ton. Oaten is scarce, and worth 45s to 60s. Turnips. — Heavier supplies have come forward, and best swedes are now selling at 22s 6d to 25s per ton (loose).

Messrs Dalgeiy and Company (Ltd.) report aa .follows.: — We held our usual weekly sale of grain and produce at our Btores on Tuesday, when wo submitted a fair-sized catalogue to the usual attendance of buyers. Competition was fairly good, and the bulk of tho jots on offer were cleared at satisfactory prices. Oats.— A number of the consignments now arriving arc finding their way into the stores. B BraJe. .qua'ity and oats for local consumption meet with a ready sale. For soft and discoloured lines prices are » good deal easier. "We quote: Prime milling and &aed lines, 2s 4d to 2s sd'; good to best feed, 2s 3d to 2s 4d; medium and discoloured, 2s Id to 2s 2d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat. — During the past week the demand has eased slightly. The majority of the millers, now holding fairly heavy stocks, are not inclined to buy at present, except lines of Tuscan, which are readily taken up at late rates. Medium quality has a, moderate inquiry. Fowl wheat, however, is sought ifter both for shipment and local consumption. We quote: Prime milling, Ss Ed to 3s 6d; prime Tuscan, to 3s 7d; medium to good, 3» 3d to 3s 4d; whole fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 2d; broken and damaged, 2s 8d to 2s lid per bushel (sackfl extra). Chaff. — Consignments have been light. Thero is a good demand for prime, heavy oaten sheaf, which, sold to-day at prices on a par with last week's. Medium quality also meeta with a. better sale. Discoloured chaff, however, is difficult to dispose of: Prime oaten sheaf. £3 17s 6d to £4 2s 6i ; choice. JE4 ss: medium, £3 10b to £3 15s; light and discoloured. £3 to £3 7s 6d per ton (bags extra).

Potatoes. — Owing io large arrivals of Australian potatoes the market for Derwents and table sorts ia eomewhst easier. Prime^ seed lines are in strong demand, and fiud a ready s«.!« at late rates. Quotations- Best seed lines, "0-to-da.tea and others, £11 10s to £12 ; prime white sorts, £10 10s to £11 ; prime Derwenta, 4210 5s to £10 15s; medium, £9 to £10 per to-n (bags in). Turnips.— During the past week the market liaa been over-supplied, and. although most consignments are being quitted at 22s 6d to 25a per ton, these prices are difficult to obtain in view of the quantity arriving. Straw.— The market is now better supplied ■with wboaten straw, which sells readily at from 30s to 37s 6d. Oaten straw, en the other hand, is scarce, and would meet with •a ready sale.