THE MARKETS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10478, 14 October 1912, Page 6

THE MARKETS.

STOCK SALES. Messrs Dalgety and Co. report having a very fair entry of both sheep and cattle at .their Feildiug sale on Friday, which- sold as below:—Small mixed hoggets 13s -Id to 12s Bd, 3 and 4-tooth shorn wethers 13s Gd, aged ewes with good percentage lambs to 18s fid. Cattle: Yearling steers £3 2s, 2-year steers £4 10s fid, forward cows to £4, light fat cowa to £8 ss, 3-ht-year bullocks to £7. Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. report:—At Wanganui sale fat bullocks made £lO 7s (id, 3-year steers £6 4s Gd, yearling steers £3 Os 6d to £3 11s, yearling run heifers £3 3s, yearling dairy heifers £3 5s 6d to £4 8s 6d, 2-year heifers £4, store cows £4 9s, others £3 12s 6d, cows with calves £5, springing heifers good £7 to £8 10s, others £4 8s to £4 10s, dairy cows £4 to £8 7s 6d. Sheep: Prime ewes 20s to 21s, medium hoggets 14s to 15s 3d, small do. 10s. Pigs: Choppers and baconers £2 10s to £2 12s, best porkers 35s to £2 2s, medium do 25s to 345, good forward stores 21s to 23s Gd, small do. 15s to IGs, good slips 15s to 16s, smaller to 12s to 13s.

FEILDING MARKET REPORT. Messrs A. H. Atkinson and C 0.,. Ltd., report a good market for poultry on Friday, but very little offering. Pigs were also limited in supply. We quote:—Weaner pigs 9s Gd to 12s Gd, slips 16s, stores to 80s Gd, sows 255, goats 5s Gd to 8s Poultry, at per pair: Hens 4s to 4s Gd, ducks 4s to 5s Gd, swans 30s, pups 3s. Seed potatoes 8s Gd per sack, table 12s to 14s, wheat 4s 3d bushel, chaff 3s to 3s Gd bag, factory hams lOd, sides bran 6s, pollard 12s Gd, Algerian .oats 3s' 4d to 3s Gd.

WESTFIELD REPORTS. Messrs Alfred Bnckland and Sons report;—We held our usual weekly sale at Westfield on October 3rd, when the usual number of dairy and store cattle came forward, and was disposed of to ready buyers. Dairy cows sold at from £9 to £ll for best, others £5 11s to £8 15s, springing heifers £7 to £lO, small and backward £5 to £7, empty cows £3 10s to £4 17s 6d, yearling heifers £3 5s to £4 18s, mixed yearlings £2 15s to £3 10s, calves £1 18s to £2 10s, small and weedy £1 5s to £1 15s, young bulls £6 to £ll ss. On October 9th at our weekly Westfield fat stock market our supply of beef totalled 378 head, the quality again being first class. There was a steady demand throughout. Choice and prime os sold at about last week’s rates. Plain cattle were easier by 10s to 15s per Head. Choice ox sold to £1 12s, prime £1 8s to £1 10s, cows and heifers £1 Is to £1 7s, steers ranged in price from £8 to £lB 12s od, cows and heifers £4 to £ll 7s 6d, two extra choice three-year-old steers bred and fattened by Mr R. B. Graver, Babylon Flats, Heleusville, brought £lB 8s 9d each. There was a large entry of fat and young calves, prices for which were slightly lower. Choice heavy suckers £3 to £3 15s, medium suckers £1 13s to £2 10s, light 18s to £1 7s, fresh dropped 3s to 15s, 89 sold. There was a fair yarding of fat sheep. Real prime mutton was scanty, and in consequence prices firmed to the extent of Is 6d to 2s per head. Prime heavy wethers £1 4s 6d to £1 7s 9d, no extra heavy penned; medium to heavy £1 to £1 4s, unfinished 16s to 19s, heavy shorn wethers 19s to £l, best heavy ewes £1 2s to £1 3s 9d, others Jl7s to £1 Is, poor and aged 10s to 13s, 1366 sold. Spring lambs sold freely. Best heavy 19s to £1 2s, 6d to 18s 6d, small 8s to 14s, 146 sold. The 106 pigs that came forward, were baconers and porkers of choice quality. There was an extra keen demand, with a further rise in values. “Large baconers £3 15s to £4 12s, lighter £3 5s to £3 14s, large porkers £2 15s to £3 4s, smaller £1 17s to £2 13s; no stores penned, but are eagerly sought after.

WOOL SALES. Messrs Murray Roberts aud Co., Ltd., have received the following cablegram, dated 10th inst., from their Loudon friends, Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Co. : —“Wool sales have closed lirm, 7000 bales being held over. Compared with last London sales closing rates Merino and crossbred fine advanced 5 per cent. - Crossbred medium shows per cent, advance, and coarse crossbred cent advance.” GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Christchurch, October 11. The local grain market is lifeless at present, there beng very little offering. What odd lots of wheat are being submitted to buyers are chiefly in store, from which they must be cleared before the wool sea--Bon [commences. Potatoes are rather firmer as the supply is now getting very short. There is still a demand from Australia, and Sydney does not expect to have new potatoes available in any quantity till about the end of ! November. New Zealand shipments are not expected to extead beyond the end of the present, month, as Up-to-date variety will not stand the carriage in November, _ as Derwents would do. The price is £6 at country stations.