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Southland Times, Issue 17307, 1 April 1913, Page 4

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AGRICULTURAL EVENTS POB WEEK ENDING APRIL 5. THURSDAY. APRIL 3. Stock sale at Winton. FRIDAY, APRIL 4. Stock sale at Thornbury. EBAY BROS. blesses Bray Bros, send the following report on last week's business: Horses. —A number of old horses were entered, and we found trouble in quitting them. Pigs.—A good entry and splendid prices. Suckers (very small), 11s; larger, 15s to 20s: weaners. 21s: slips, 255; stores, 32s 6d to 355. Poultry.—Ducks. Is 6d to Is Od: hens, Is 3d to Is Gd; roosters. Is Id to Is 6d. Produce. —Potatoes, £5 (nominally), the sale in town is slow. We are. however, quitting large quantities by shipping, Chaff—Old chaff is becoming scarce; price. £3 os to £3 l,s Gd per ton. Onions, Ss per cwt. Oats (best), 2s 4d per bushel: other, 5s to Ts 6d per bag. Wheat (scarce), 10s to 13s per bag. Hay, 2s per bale. Straw, £2 5s per ton. Vegetables.—■ Cucumbers (hothouse), 2s per doz; others. Is per doz. Cabbage, Is per doz. Carrots, Is per doz. Cauliflower, 3s per doz. Marrows, 10s per cwt. Fruit.—Peaches (Xelson), 4s per box; (Teviot). 2d to 2(6d per lb; plums, 2(id; quinces, 2d per lb; tomatoes, Kid to 2d per lb: grapes, 9(id per lb; apples (dessert), ss; apples (cooking), l%d per lb; pears (cooking), Kid per lb; (dessert), »till per lb; lemons. 12s Gd per case; oranges. lls per case: bananas (green). Us Gd: (ripe), 13s; jam melons, Ts per cwt: walnuts, Gd per lb; peanuts. 2(-d per lb. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Donald Reid and Co.. Ltd., Dunedin, held their weekly auction sale of grain and produce at their stores on Monday, when values ruled as under;— Oats.—Moderate quantities have been offering for direct delivery from country stations. The export demand is not keen, and millers’ limits do not allow them to operate freely at current prices, but. nearly all consignments coming to hand have found buyers at quotations. The demand is chiefly for prime Garten and sparrowbill. We quote: Prime milling, 2s 2d to 2s 2 Mid; good to best feed. 2s Id to 2s 2d; inferior to medium. Is Sd to 2s per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes.—The market is well supplied with good to prime quality, and there being no prospect of business with Australia, values are somewhat easier. We quote: Best table potatoes, £5 to £5 ss; choice, to £5 Ts Cd per ton (bags included). Chaff. —There is good inquiry for prime oaten sheaf, and nearly all consignments of this class coming forward are readily placed. Medium and inferior qualities are not in favour. Wc quote: Best oaten stieaf. £3 10s to £3 15s, choice black oat, to £3 ITs 6d; medium to good. £2 15s to £3 ss; light and discoloured, £2 to £2 10s per ton (bags extra). Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd,, Dunedin, report as follows: — Oats. —Samples are coming to hand more freely, and any. lines of new season’s oats are meeting with ready sale at ruling rates. Prime milling. 2s Id to 2s 2(id; good to best feed, 2s to 2s Id; inferior and unsound, from Is 6d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. —Supplies have been coming to hand more freely, consequently the market is a little easier. We quote : Prime' freshly-dug samples from £5 to £5 Ts Gd; medium. £4 10s to £5. Inferior lots, however, are difficult to place. Chaff. —Supplies continue to arrive freely. Prime quality is in good demand and is readily placed at quotations. Discoloured and inferior, however, is difficult to quit, there being practically no demand for this class. Choice black oaten sheaf is saleable up to £3 ITs 6d per ton. We quote: Prime oaten sheaf, £3 10s to £3 15s; medium, £3 2s 6d to £3 7s 6d; light and discoloured, from £2 per ton (sacks extra). CANTERBURY MARKETS. GRAIN* AXD PRODUCE. CHRISTCHURCH. March 28. During the week a fair amount of wheat has been placed on the market, but the volume has not been of such large proportions as the season of the year would warrant. The bulk of the wheat offered has been Tuscan, but for this variety the demand is anything but strong, although owing to the firm attitude of holders prices have not declined, the former rates still being current, although It should be mentioned that at these prices merchants are not anxious to secure stocks unless they can see a way of turning them over without pass, ing them through the stores. The current price is 3s 6d to 3s 6 (id, Pearl and Hunters, on the other hand, are scarce, and the prices for these have hardened during the week, the current price being 3s T(id to 3s 8d for the former and 3s 7d for the latter; but for very prime samples of either sort a slight advance on these prices could be obtained. Advices from the south show that wheat is now offering more freely, the satisfactory weather experienced lately having given farmers an opportunity to make some progress with threshing. In the Taleri prices for Red wheat have ranged from 3s 8d to 3s 9d, and from 3s lOd to 3s 10 (id for Velvet. In the Xorth Otago district sales have been made up to 3s 9Vid for Velvet and 3s 7(id for Fed sorts, these prices in every case being on trucks at stations, less commission.

A medium business is being done in oats, and if anything pricea have hardened during the past week, the current price for Gartons being Is lid to 2s for ordinary sorts, super samples bringing slightly more. At the moment the supply is quite adequate for the demand, which is, in the absence of shipping facilities, almost exclusively local. Very limited quantities of chaff are coming to hand, and the current price is 55s to 57s 6d on truqks at country stalions. The North Island and the West Coast still continue to draw their supplies largely from the northern part of the South Island, and the consequence is that few outside orders are being placed in Canterbury. Some business la being done In potatoes for April delivery, the current price being £4 on trucks at country stations. The following quotations are for purchases from farmers, net cash, sacks extra, delivery at country stations:— Oats.—Gartons Is lOd to 2s, Duns Is 9d to Is lid, Danish Is Od to Is lOd, Algerian Is Od to Is lid. Chaff —35s to 5Ts 6d. Potatoes—April delivery £l. HIGH CCTMUnSSIOHEB’S CABLE. WELLINGTON, March 31. The High Commissioner’s cable, dated London, March 20, is as follows: Mutton.—The market is steady, but an improved demand. Canterbury. 4Vi cl; North Island. 4'/«d. Lamb.—Tho market is firmer, with more demand. Canterbury, 6d, Beef—The market is quiet, but steady. New Zealand hinds. 3': t d; fores, 3'sd. P.urter. —The market is dull except for best quality, for which the market is quiet but steady. Choicest New Zealand, per cwt. 119s (salted). 120s (unsalted) ; Australian and Argentine. 100s; Siberian, Ills; Danish, 120s. Cheese. —The market is very quiet ; New Zealand. 61s per cwt. Hemp.—The market remains very flat; spot, New Zealand "good-fair," per ton, £34: fair, £3l; fair current Manila. £33; April-June. New Zealand "good-fair," £34 10s; fair, £3l 10a; fair current Manila. £34. The output from Manila for the week was 20,000 bales. Linseed. —Market firm; New Zealand, 56s per cwt (nominal). Cocksfoot Seed. —The market is quiet and buyers not keen to do business. ■Wheat. —The market is rather quiet ; N.Z. long-berried, ex granary, per quarter of Ollbs, 39s Gd; short-berried, 38s 6d (nominal). Oats, —The market is dull, except for best quality; N.Z. oats, short sparrowbills. ex granary, per quarter 38 libs, 255; Danish, per quarter 3201b5, 20s.