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Southland Times, Issue 14579, 21 November 1910, Page 7

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AGRICULTURAL EVENTS POR WEEK ENDING- NOVEMBER 26. TUESDAY—November 22. Stock Sale at Woodlands. WEDNESDAY—November 23. Clearing Sales at MS J. Smiths, Woodlands, by Messrs .Henderson and Co. Otago A. and P. Show. . - Sale of Dairy Land at Orepuki by Messrs Dalgety and Co. THURSDAY—November 24. Clearing Sale at Mr J. Drysdale s, Kennington, by Messrs J. B- Watson and Co. . Clearing sale at Mr J. Hogan’s, le tua, by, Messrs Dalgety and Co. Stock Sale at Wyndham. FRIDAY —November 20. Horse Sale at Wlnton. Stock Sale at Waikaka. ~ , Stock sale at Kapuka Saleyards by the National Mortgage Coy. THE RIALTO, .Messrs Wm. Todd and Co. report the following sales on Saturday: Poultry—Heavy entry. tU* l *- to 2s; roosters. Is Sd to -s Id; ducks, 2s to 2s SU; chicks. 3d to Is; Jhirng copkerols, Is to Is 4d; hens anti chick., Ss fid to 14s fid; hens and ducklings, 4s io 5s 9d; ducklings, 7d to 9d, Pigs—lo7 entered and sold, buckers «mali, 4s 9d to fis 3d; better, Ss -A 1 . *■“ 10s 6d; weaners, 11s 3d to 1-s, slips, Jos fid to 17s; store, 28s. Cattle—Two cows la and General Produce —Potatoes, £9 to £■> vjOs ton; onions, 12s cwt; oats, Js bd. Wheat, 13s; barley, 11s fid. Fruit —Rhubarb, IVid to 2d; Teyiot cherries, lOd to lid lb; strawberries, Jjlrst of season. Is fid lb. McKAY BROS.’ REPORT. • Messrs McKay Bros, report the following sales on Saturday:— Poultry—A good entry, which met, n keen demand. Hens, Is 9d to 2s 7cl; cockerels, fid to 9d; roosters. 2s to 2s sd; ducks, 2s 2d to 2s 4d; ducklings, Sd to SOd; hen and ducklings, fis 9d; pigeons, Od. Plg a _Suckers, Ss to 10s; weaners to 13s fid; slips to 255. General Produce—Potatoes, £9 to £ 10; tifilons, 12s fid; wheat, 15s; oats, Ss fid to |os 6d: barley. 12s; barley meal, 12s. Fruit—Bananas (green), 22s fid to 255: jpranges, 18s 9d; lemons, lls fid; pines, \2s fid to 14a fid; apples, 12s fid to 15s; tomatoes. Is 4d; cherries (bad order), 12s fid to 27s fid per crate; rhubarb, J3&d per lb, INVERCARGILL HORSE MARKET. Messrs J. A. Mitchell and Co. report;— -.We bad an entry of 42 horses fpf our jweekly sale on Saturday, composed toostly of useful draughts and ordinary hacks. For the best horses competition Jwas fairly good, but aged and inferior draughts and weedy hacks were neglected. The attendance was only medium, dfarmefs evidently being busy at .borne. vA nice 6-year-old mare, In 7 foal, was passed in at £47. Others sold at £3 5 »o £27 for the most likely sorts; useful, «25 to £18; old and stiff horses to £2 10s. The hacks and light harness 'Jrorses were inostly common sorts. For .the best inquiry was good, but weedy jlbrts were dull -of sale. The trotting Sorse ‘‘Cottage Boy” brought £l7. Other macks sold at £l2 10s down to £5 ss. A pony Was knocked down at £<. " GORE MARKETS. ,4 ' Oats.—ln the absence of offerings and s»wing to the continued dry weather the s»at market has improved considerably. r%nd during the past Week up to Is lid Sn trucks has been paid for A Gartons And Is lOd for A Sparowbllis. Growers Ere holding firm for 2s on trucks .at cmntry stations, and at present it looks s if their hopes are to be realised. The *sontinned dry weather in North. Otago and South Canterbury is creating a conwiderable demand for feed,, and:,there Is <lome little Inquiry ; from ’ the North (Island for B gfade. As there is a fair Quantity of oats ‘ available merchants Sre only operating In hand-to-mouth lashion as they consider that to speculate in a market that Is entirely dependent on weather conditions is too Jrisky. Chaff. —The same remarks apply to .chaff, the dry weather creating considerable demand for prime quality, which Jias been sold at £4 to £4 2s fid on trucks at country sidings. Holders of chaff are confident of being able to get higher prices during the next feW weeks, but should rains set in a good Hush of grass ■would' reduce considerably " the amount T»f chaff consumed. Ryegrass. —During the week the market has improved" considerably, ' and prime undressed farmers’.lines are worth ■urf to 2s 9d on trucks at country- sidings. There is very little grass available and better prices may be looked for.—Ensign. RIVERSDALE STOCK SALE. There was a yarding of about 4000 sheep at tue RiversdUiC -stot-K 'sale on Friday last (says Hie Ensign),-compris-ing caielly ewes, tamos and hoggets. With a lew pens of tat wethers amt ewes. There was -a good ‘attendance of farmers and buyers. iTicea were a litXte easier tor hoggets and wether.-,, hut for ewes and lames wt-ie on a par wiitt last week's rates. The toiiovviug are Wright, Stephemfon and-Co!, Ltd.—loo. old ewes and iambs (alt counted); m fid; 14 small hoggets, Its; lib mixed hoggets ifis 7(1; ft fat ewes, -os, 18 mixed hoggets, 15s fid; 30 fat wethers, 20s. aienderson and Co. —2oU ewe hoggets, Ifis 9d. This firm also passed in a line ot 730 ewe hoggets at Us 4d. -. National Mortgage and .sgency Co, Ltd. —140 Wether hoggets, los fid; 400 ®' V New ß fflind S Loan and Mercantile ■Agency Co., Ltd)— 34 ewes and him us tail counted),, Us 4d; 7 9 2 and 4-tooth 'wes with luu per cent, of : iambs (all counted), lls -Id; 41 mixed hoggets, fis 3d; 100 do., Ifis dd; 3»u do., - it-s lod; IfiU 2, 4, ’ fi and S-iootli ewes, with 100 per cent, iambs (all counted)., us; 290 ewe hoggets, 17s; fi yeariiug , hellers, £3 3s bd. GORE HOR3E BAZAAR.

Wright, Stephenson and Co., ’Ltd., re*. jjOrt: yv'tj h6IU OUT special hoi'Se saio in ,ne above bazaar on Saturday,'before a fair attendance of the public. „■ Tne entry, wtiicfi was niuuo up or-about forty horses, consisted mostly or oui urnugau and harness horses. Tne demand (sliowni at this sale was hot as keen as at pant sales, and resulted in only about half Of the entry being sold, rilut, tor the class of horses mat came forward, we consider the sale a very satisfactory one, and had any really nrst-ciass animals been oifered, we are sure they would jave changed hands ut pricud -ssa. tibiaeCory to buyer and seller, come 01 our sales were as follows: —Account Air \V m._ Kirk, Waikoikoi, bay gelding,, 1 yrs, £315 10s; Air Wni. Cooper, V, aikaia, bay mare, Cyra, £34 10s; Air U'rn. Kirk,. Kelso, 6yr-oJd bay mare, ti l; Mr AV in. cmanks, Herlot, bay mare. £33 10s; Air Joan Small, Lumsden, bay gelding £25; on iccount of several other clients, geldings and mares from £25 to £4. Wo a iso'soul a quantity of secondhand , uufiiess at market values. DREDGING BESUB3S. (Per United Press Association)'. DUNEDIN, November 20. Dredging returns;— Golden lied, 40oz Idwt; Aiolyneux Hydraulic, 2ioz »dwt; Oirig, 220z 3dwt. hemp. Reporting upon the hemp market the New Zealand Trade Review says:—The market has again fallen very' quiet and any offers that can be drawn'from Condon are at slowly diminishing prices, but millers are disinclined to accept current rates, consequently very little business is pdbsible. Values are quoted, good fair, £2O; high point fair, £l7 lus to £l7 15s; low point fair, £l7 5s to £l7 10s, the tendency at present being towards furvher decline. Millers have often played the waiting game successfully, but tills has usually been when they were working on contracts disposing of their output for three or four, or more, months ahead/ They can then afford to wait calmly for another Jump in the market before entering into further contracts This season, however, the majority of them have firmly refused to enter into Contracts at ruling quotations. London with ample supplies of Manila and Sisal available, is not likely to "be inconvenienced by falling supplies from this quarter and we are simply losing our hold on the market.' Aflllers are all at work producing a pretty full output but unable In the majority of eases to make sales to their satisfaction. OTAGO MARKETS. oats And chaff, DUNEDIN, November 19. The position of oats remains very firm Applications for quotations are . being received from the north, but the high prices ruling are preventing a general acceptance of orders. At the same time a certain amount of business is going through, and prices have finned to an extent of i£d on the week. Sales have taken place at 2s 3%d (fo.b., sacks in) for B grade aparrowblils: 2s 4d for B grade Gurtons; and 2s 4ij.il for A grade Cartons. The dry weather lias caused quantities to be railed direct to Oamaru, and from a southern station a line went forward for which 2s was paid on trucks at the station. Farmers have every 1 confidence in, the future-of the market, and are holding tenaciously, and even, in one or two cases, are not averse to increasing their holdings, There is,"'however, not too sound a basis for the market, as a very general rain in Uio affected districts would put a slightly different noihploxion on affairs. The chaff market remains very firm, ind-the very best samples bring tip to "4 17s Gd, though £1 15s is a good averige price lor best in quantities. Potatoes are also very firm, and touch £l2 -per ton. The new season’s supply is now coming on, but "owing to the scarcity of old lota the price is well T.tuh tallied.

CANTERBURY MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH, November 10. Euslne.ss in the grain market lias to a certain extent been affected by the weather conditions, anti while the foreign markets have shown an easier tone the reverse has been the case in the Dominion, where there has been a decided hardening during the last few weeks. In oats, reports that the crops, which have been aitcctcil by the dry weather, and, which is now felt, even in spite ot the welcome rains which fell at the beginning of tiie, week, will fall short ot the average for normal years, have had their effect on the market, with the result that prices have hardened, and the current price for A grade Gartons has advanced to equal to 2s IVid. and B grade to 2s 3d f.o.b. Supplies arc short, practically no business having been done with farmer.: for some weeks. The potato market is weaker than it has been tor some time and the inclination of values is downward. The- business passing is* now very small, and several ' merchants have practically ceased operations.- The current price, which is nominal, is £!i to £9 5s on trucks at country stations. Voting potatoes are now coming on to the market freely, but it will be some time before they come into general use. AUCKLAND MARKETS. Reporting under date. 17th inst., the Auckland "Star" says:— Outs.—The market for oats is exceptionally strong at the present time, as the continued "dry weather in Canterbury still forces prices upwards with the result that an advance of 2d per bushel has taken [dace since last report.. The Quotation now for oats, f.0.b.. Southern ports, is 2s 3 Mid, which means 2s fid ex store ip Auckland, and there is still a strong tendency-upwards, its, considerable business has been done in 'the TSouttv ■by local mrochants at 2s 3?£d. They prefer to secure the higher price now offering in the South rather than bring the oats purchased ahead up to this market to be sold in small lines. Potatoes.- —As intimated last week, arrivals of old potatoes from Australia have now almost ceased, only some 200 sacks coming to hand since last report, the rest being new potatoes from Sydney, which, despite the dutj" of £1 per ton, can be sold here at' 1.2s to 14s per cwt, which is the same as the rates ruling for those grown locally. The blight has appeared in some places, but is not making much progress, as so late in the season the growers are able to cope with the disease. The crops are still maturing all right. An inquiry-has set in from the South for new potatoes, which shows that stocks of old are exhausted throughout the Dominion. It will be about three or four weeks before our own new potatoes reach this market in any Quantity, when export .South will probably set in. RABBZTSKINS. LONDON, November 18. At the rabbitskin sales there were large offerings, and an average market. Fair to good sold at a penny to twopence lower, and inferior at late rates to a halfpenny lower. 1