STOCK AND GRAZING NOTES.
Month!? f continued). oodJauds, 2nd Hult* day last Tharsday Balfour, 3rd Thursday Thornbury, Ist Friday Uontroon A Otautau. „" n<l Friday Biveredale, 3rd Friday aikaka last Friday Liyuevale, last Thurs <lfi^ Periodically 3 a AdverUsed. Lumsden, Mocsbmn, Orepuki, Muf-aura, Waikouai‘l, Uiverten, Ngapara, ano Otago Central sales.
WppVW STrr.v Sa':.Burnside, Wednesdays Ashburton, Tuesdays Addington, Wednesdays Waiareka Railway Junotion, Tuesdays WalJacetown. Tuesdays fleriot.. Thursdays Fort nightly. Clinton, Thursdays Owaka, alternate Thurdays with Clinton Balcintha, Fridays Gore, Tuesday*. Oamaru, Tuesdays SSonthly. Wallacetown, Tuesdays Palmerston, Ist, Monday iiiloQ, Ist Thursday LJuntrooa. 2nd Friday
OTAGO. The weather continues lino, and hopes of a satisfactory root crop are fast vanishing in Otago. Grass is holding out well along the coast considering the conditions. lifland, the root and rape conditions appear hopeless, while pastoral lands are parched for want of water. It is cold at niolits vvitnal, but the rain holds off. ine wool sale in Dunedin last week disclosed nothing more remarkable in the way of prices than 21 id per lb secured by Donald Iteid & Co. for seven bales of super quarter-bred. Ibis wool was grown on the Glendlui Estate, Lawrence district, and foes to the Mosgiel Woollen Mill, this wool by the way, brought the same price at the sale just previous to the ‘"commandeer.” ■ Lhe owner (Mr Roger Turnbull) must be congratulated. lhe freezing works at Burnside open on February 15. About 500 sheep were penned at Palmerston last week, together with some 200 head of cattle. Fat lambs made 275, fair wethers To 3 ? c y f i lirl y P- 1 -* ewes with fair lambs , mixecl young ewes 25s 3d About half the cattle were sold, but prices were no more than stationary. BURNSIDE MARKET. There was a fair yarding of fat sheep at Burnside, but the quality for the most part v as indifferent, there being over many medium ewes included in the entry. The demand was very quiet, and at no time displayed animation except that at the last sale values were perhaps rather higher than earner in the -day. On the whole prices were on a parity with the previous week’s quotations, with poor sorts cheaper. The fat lambs were of medium to good quality. The best of them were firmer, but young unfinished larnbs were cheaper than at last sale by Is a head, and a few pens were taken by a grazier with some young feed clover and rape to follow. The bulk of the moderate entry of fat cattle were light and plain, with few heavy weights, but suitable for the season. Prices were about maintained at last week’s rates until well on in the sale, when butchers wore full up. Beef sold to 50s per lOOlb. The store cattle penned, about 200 head, were an average lot, with some 50 head of three-year'-old station steers, the most of them good colours. The demand all round showed no improvement, and many were turned out unsold. A pen of sappy three-year-old .Shorthorn steers made £l2 10s. others unchanged. The dairy cows penned were of very moderate quality, and realised moderate prices. Fat pigs" were a bit cheaper, with stores a good entry, also down a few shillings a head. ADDINGTON YARDS. There was a good yarding of fat sheep at Addington, the demand being a bit unsteady, and values on the run of the sale were down 13 a head compared with the previous week’s rates. Freezing buyers secured a few lots, light wether mutton making round s|d per lb and ewes about 4id per lb. The entry of fat lambs was a good one. some 5300 being penned. Exporters bid freely, and practically secured the lot at rates running from 9.[d to 9jjd per lb, and at times the maximum beat, this by (yd per lb. It was a brisk and cheerful sale. There was a fair entry of
store sheep, chiefly lambs, and the demand was much brighter, all but two lines being sold at auction. The quality of about an average entry of fat cattle was fair, with the demand a shade firmer than at last sale for prime beef, but inferior was unchanged. The yarding of store cattle was a good one, but competition show r ed little change from last week, good but thin year-and-a-half steers making £4 6s, and heifers, same age, £4 12s 6d. Sale of dairy cows were slow, best making to £lB 10s. Eat pigs were cheaper, with stores about the same as the previous week, fats making round 9d per lb, weaners 14s to 245. stores 30s to 70s, in-pig sows £3 to £4 10s. NORTH ISLAND STOCK VALUES. Competition for the small yardings of store stock in the North Island is not brisk, owing, doubtless, to the very warm weather curtailing feed prospects. In the Auckland province, at the Westfield market, beef sold to 5-5 s per 1001 b, three to four-year-old-steers to £l2 10s, two-and-a-half-year-olds to £8 10s, year-and-a-half to £7 7s, forward wethers 25s to 30s. In Poverty Bay, medium young wethers in the wool made 20s to 25s 6d, other sorts being neglected. In Taranaki, little is doing in the stock line except that fat lambs are moving off to the works at top speed. In the Wanganui-Feilding areas, the weather continues dry, and unless rain comes soon there is little doubt the dairying season will be considerably shortened. In Hawke’s Bay, business in sheep is quiet, shorn rape lambs making 16s, two-tooth wethers 19s, two-year-old steers £3 10s to £5, three-year-olds £7 to £B. In the Wairarapa, shorn rape lambs made 16s. woollies 18s, two-tooth wethers 15s to 19s, four-tooths 265. yearling steers to £3. two-year-olds to £9, three-year-olds to £ll 10s. STOCK NOTES. Business in store stock in Otago is still fitful and of small worth from either the broker or grower's standpoint. Prices have been coming back owing to the lack of adequate rains and the “bearish” reports of meat operators outside the Dominion. Although lambs seem good enough property if they can be turned off fat, it remains to be demonstrated whether competition will lift prices well above reported opening rates at the freezing works up north. The Christchurch Ram and Ewe Fair will bo held on March 18 and 19; entries closing on March 3. At Rangiora on the 19th inst. fat lambs made from 9jd to 101 d per lb, ranging from 2.9 s to 33s 9d, medium weights 26s to 28s Bd, lights 23s to 255, two-tooth store wethers 14s to 18s. At Tinwald fat lambs were readily taken at above rates (nearly 5000) medium mixed sex store lambs, 15s 6d. As announced in the N.B. Agriculturist and reported in this paper a few weeks ago, Mr Adam Archibald is retiring from Overshiels, Midlothian-, immediately, thus terminating a tenancy which has been in the family for 75 years. The first part of this withdrawal is his leaving Raeshaw and Ladyside, farms that adjoin Overshiels, and have been in the occupancy of Mr Archibald for 22 years. The sheep stock on these holdings is being taken over at Martinmas by the landlord, Mr T. W. H. M'Dougal, of Raeshaw House, Heriot. The prices for delivery of this stock have now been fixed by arbitration as follows: —Ewes, 137 s 6d; hoggs, 100 s; six one-year-old tups, £25; five two-year-old tups, £45; six three-year-old tups, £18; one four-year-old tup, £18; nine five and six-year-old tups, £l2. Rose Mary VI is the first cow in Australia to give over 2000 gallons within a year. This Friesian cow, reports the State Dairy Expert of South Australia (Mr P. IT. Sitter), is the property of Messrs A. W. Shillabeer and Son, of Kilkenny, South Australia, and has just completed a milking period of 365 days, the last day of test expired on the 9th inst. During this period Rose Mary produced 21.590J.1b of milk with an average test of 3.63 per cent, of butterfat, which is equivalent to 784.491 b of butter fat and estimated butter on a 15 per cent, overrun of 902.081 b. Her Inst day of tost —viz., November 9, she gave 301 b milk, and during the test she has carried a calf for a period of 211 days. Captain 11. T. Hamilton, of Hereford, England, had an extraordinary good sale of Gloucestershire Old Spots pigs in November last, 48 head averaging £lO3. The top price paid for boars was 2Oogns, and for females, 520gns. Further sales during November at Home include the Eaton dairy Shorthorns from the Duke oE Westminster’s herd near Chester. The average for 105 lots was £223, with a top pr.ee for bulls of 550gns, and the best price of the sale for the Royal champion cow, Bare Charm—viz., 875gns; Mr M‘Cowan securing her for the United States, and she thus joins her dam, Bare Fashion. Red Polls have been in great demand, 51 head sold on account of Mr Dimmock, Hereford, England, averaging £2OO, while 185 pedigree Herefords, on account of Mr Hawkins, Thingliill Court, near Hereford, realised an average of £ll7 10s. The top price for cows was lOOCgns, for two-year-old. heifers 610gns, yearling heifers 330gns, bull calves 360gns, heifer calves 200gns, and bulls 400gns. ■ In Friesians Mr C. Mead, of Essex, realised £272 for 32 head, the top price paid was ICOOgns for a four-year-old cow, Sparrowycko Desire, a bull calf, Sparrowyeke Record, making 750gns. A preliminary report of the Agricultural Costings Committee states that the total net cost per gallon of milk at the farm was 37.56 d for England and Wales and 30.51 d for Scotland. The average number of cows in tho herds under observation was 2004 in Scotland and 3387 in England and Wales. Tho average yield per cow per day was 18.41 b in England and 21.31 b in Scotland. FROZEN MEAT PROSPE(ITS. Messrs R. Arlow and Co., Ltd. (says tho Dominion) have just received the following advices from their London agents, Messrs L. C. Ballnntine and Oo.— “Wo have to advise you that the. general industrial situation in the United Kingdom is cause for considerable alarm. Unemployment is noticeablv on an increasingly large scale ; prices in almost all commodities, whether food or manufactured goods, are dropping" perceptibly, and we consider it our duty to advise you of this. “At tho present time the Government New Zealand mutton and lamb holds up its price because of the great shortage of this particular article, but Home-grown meat, which is now fairly plentiful, is getting weaker. In pork, a considerable drop has occurred, and a further drop is likely. Home-grown mutton, even which is none too plentiful, is cheaper than of late, and
as a consequence of the general situation there is not the same eagerness to deal c.i.f. e. as there was a month or two ago. Without committing ourselves at the present time we should think that there will be a slumjp in the meat trade and industries, and the situation will require very careful watching.” Commenting on this, Messrs Arlow report that during the past fortnight the c.i.f. value of now season's prime New Zealand lamb has dropped Id per lb, prime wethers have, dropped |d, whilst ewes have shown a similar decline. Prime Now Zealand ox beef is hardly saleable at all at a reasonable price in London, although o fic Cvo. small parcels have been sold c.i.f. terms in Glasgow. Cow and bull beef is similarly at a discount, as English buyers nave withdrawn, anticipating 1 lower prices. C.I.F. CONTRACTS. The frozen meat importing trade here is now in process of discussing new draft concations of sale for future c.i.f. contracts ‘' ! Australia and New Zealand mutton and lamb, writes the London correspondent of ‘"The Pastoral Review.” I am able to give the terms of the draft as at present considered, but I am not aware that finality has yet been reached in agreeing to all the clauses. They are as follows: 1. Description:—(a) Grades.—No average weight guaranteed, unless specifically stated in contract. (b) Average Weight.—lf sold on guaranteed average weight, shipments may be delivered at 21b per carcase tmder or over such average (i.e., 21b margin either way). Note.—lf sold on basis of not exceeding a specified average this, of course, does not apply. (c) Weights of Individual Carcases.—lf sold on a range of weight, buyer has the right to reject such individual carcases as are lib or more outside the net range at contract price, plus storage charges, if incurred, but must retain all carcases weighing contract range. 2. Quantity.—The agreed margin of 5 per cent, more or less may be tendered by sellers, but in a case of non-sliipment that margin cannot •be brought into calculation for assessment of damages. 3. Weights.—By giving 12 hours’ notice before landing commences, cither party has the option of weighing the meat into store at his own expense, and should the landed weight be different from the bill of lading weight, corrected invoice to be rendered and payment adjusted accordingly. When there is a loss in weight shipper to pay cost of weighing. The landed weight to be the gross weight, in drafts of not fewer than 10 carcases, on the understanding that the meat is covered with one cotton cover. If it be found impossible to weigh ex ship or into store, the buyer may have the goods weighed over in store at port of discharge in presence of seller’s representative within 28 days of first landing, provided that quanttiy in store be not less than 75 per cent, of the whole parcel. Certified store weights to be accepted for the balance of 25 per cent. .If no opportunity bo afforded to seller of checking intake weights at port of discharge, the bill of lading weight is to be final. 4. Shipment.—Bill of lading date is to be takejs as prima facie evidence of time of shipment. If a contract renders obligatory two or more shipments, each such shipment is to be dealt with as a separate contract, but where the seller ships in several vessels goods which he might under the contract have shipped in one, such several shipments shall be dealt with as one separate contract, and payments made for portions of the quantity in question before delivery of documents for the whole shall be subject to adjustment. 5. Insurance. —All policies or certificates to be in accordance with the conference clauses current at time of sale; sellers to be at liberty to issue certificates in lieu of delivering policies. 6. Payment.—Net cash against documents. Documents mean bill of lading and insurance policy, or certificate, or any other effective documents which entitle buyer to
deliver from the ship subject to terms oI bill of lading, and to recover from tho underwriters, subject to the terms of the policy, provided always that the bill of. Lading and policy are in accordance with this contract. In the event of vessel being lost or miss* lug, payment to be made in exchange for documents on the steamer being ported as “lost” or “missing” at Lloyd’s. 7. Execution of Contract.—Should shipment bo prevented by force inajeure, strikes, lock-outs, labour disturbances, trade disputes, war, Government action, riots, civil commotions, fires, floods, breakdown of machinery, perils of the sea, or accident (including accident to any ship on which the sellers shall have engaged to ship th» meat), this contract, or any part thereof so involved, is thereby cancelled, unless it lie mutually agreed that the time allowed for shipment shall be extended until tho opera* tion of tho causes preventing shipment haT ceased. If seller intends to claim the protection of this clause, reasonably prompt notification of same to be given to buyer after the facts are known to the seller, and sellers must furnish proof of prevention if required by buyer to do so. 8. Claims, (a) Quality.—ln any caso of claim by buyer for an allowance, whero settlement by private treaty cannot ba reached and a survey becomes necessary, not less than 10 per cent. of tha parcel is to be examined, and nob ess than 50 per cent, of the total parcel must be in store at the time of examination or no claim for quality will he entertained. Warehouse-keeper's certifi. cate that 50 per cent, of the parcel remains in store," and that no selection of the meat 1 lias been made, must bo attached to the award. Surveyors to decide whether any and what allowance, based on the market price of tho day, is to bo mado to buyer. Surveyors must agree on their award, or agree to the points of difference, and nominate an umpire within throe days, WHO is to decide only the points of difference between the two surveyors, which must be set forth in their reference. The cost of survey to follow the award unless the umpire otherwise directs. The umpire to have power to direct by whom his fee shall be borne, and in default of such direction his fee shall be borne equally by seller and buyer. (b) Bonetaint, etc.—Bruised and bonetainted carcases which are partly or wholly condemned are to be reinvoiced to the seller at the market price of the day, as per the British Incorporated Society of Meat Importers’ quotations, and the sound portions of the carcases sold by tho buyer on sellers’ .account; or the seller may take over at said price the carcases so affected. Claims, must be supported by sanitary authority’s certificate of condemnation. (c) Values.—When questions arise as to values, the basis of valuations to ba the
fuotations of the British Incorporated ociety of Moat Importers, in so far as those are applicable to the point in dispute
9. Arbitration. —Unless settled by private treaty or under condition 8, all disputes arising out of this contract ahali be re-
ferred to two arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party in difference, the arbitrators having power to appoint an umpire. The arbitrators shall be persons (whether engaged in business or not) conversant with the frozen meat trade, but no person having any interest in the matter in dispute shall be competent to act as arbitrator or umpire. All arbitrations shall take place in London unless otherwise agreed by the parties hereto, and shall be conducted under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889, subject to the express conditions cf this contract. RAM AND EWE FAIR. MASTERTON, January 19. The annual stud ram and ewe fair was held at Mastcrton to-day. There was a large attendance of breeders from all parts of New Zealand, but the bidding- was not brisk, and many Sines were passed in. The highest bid obtained for Romney rams was lOOgs each for two rams bred by Messrs W. Perry and Sons, who last year secured 270 gs for Romneys. In Lincolns, Messrs Percy Bros, topped the list with 72gs. The highest price last year was 160 gs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3489, 25 January 1921, Page 11
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