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Southland Times, Issue 17483, 26 July 1915, Page 7

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AGRICULTURAL ETBKTS TOR WESK ENDING JULY 31. —Tuesday, July 27. Stock, sale at Wallacetown. —Thursday, July 29. — Stock sale at Wyndham. —Friday, July 30. Stock sale at Waikaka. 9 McKA? BROS. McKay Bros, submit their weekly report, as follows; — Poultry.—Good demand. Hens 1/3 to 1/8, roosters to 2/3, ducks (wanted) 1/9 to 2/4, pullets 2/3 to 3/4. Pigs.—Firming and in better demand; stores wanted, 30/- to 35/-. Potatoes.—Market easier; best £6 15/-, eties —Early Rose 12/- cwt, Beauty of Hebron 12/- cwt, Sutton’s surprise and Perfection 9/- cwt. Onions 6/- cwt, 5/6 bag: barley meal, 16/6; oatdust, 5/-; swedes, 7/6; wheat, 12/- to 23/-, according to quality; oats, discoloured,, from 10/- to 15/-; best feed, IS/-. Reject lines of chaff*. IVe sold 700 bags this week at prices ranging from 1/6 to 2/9 per bag, and have large supplies coming forward. Fruit —Heavy supplies of oranges and lemons. Island oranges 14/3, Mildura 13/-, lemons 15/-. apples (Hobart S.P.M.) 11/-, New Zealand Dougherty 10/- and 10/6, Sturmers 7/- to 9/-, N.Y.P. 9/-, cookers 6/- to 7/-. We now receive regular weekly consignments from Australia on Tuesdays. Grain. —The market remains much the same as last week for oats, chaff, and wheat.

I Manures.—We are now receiving- orders for K.P. brand, and recommend early application in view of a possible shortage. General. —Honey 6/- tin, horse covers 21/-, cow covers 13/6. Harness at low prices. Furniture. —Stocks lately replenished at prices equal to wholesale. THE RIALTO. William Todd and Co. report for Saturday;— Poultry—-Fair entry; good demand. Hens 1/3, -/-, Minorcas 2/S, roosters 1/6 to white leghorn roosters 2/- to 3/-, trio silver wyandottes 25/-, ducks 2/1 to 2/S, turkeys S/-, geese 3/6 to 3/S. Pigs.—Small entry; strong demand; suckers S/- to 12/3, weaners 13/- to IS/-, stores 2 2/- to 2.1/-, sow 25/-. Produce. —Potatoes £6 to £7 per ton, inferior lines £1 10/- per ton. Chaff, discoloured, 2/6 bag; oats, damaged, 5/6 to 10/'-, better 14/6, wheat. 17/- to bag, carrots -1/- to 5/-, onions 7,'-, pease meal 27/6 large bags, muttonbirds rF/td to 6d. BSAY BROS.’ REPORT. Gray Bros., J.td., submit their weekly market report as follows; Potatoes. —We can do with further consignments of prime lines. There is great" difficulty with regard to frosted potatoes of late and farmers should be more careful in sacking and covering. We have early varieties of seed on hand, but could do with further quantities. Table ex store to £7 guaranteed. Seed potatoes are wanted. Chaff. —The market is at a standstill with little change to report. Barge quantities of rejected chaff is coming to our store, and meets a ready sale. For some discoloured lines we have sold to £6, sacks extra. Prices depend entirely on condition. Prime to £7. Straw Chaff.—The bottom has fallen out of the straw chaff market owing to plenty of grass in Australia. Wo had some too sacks of rejected come to hand but find some difficulty in shifting rejected lines. Musty .1/3 to 2/-, prime £3 to £3 a/'-. Swedes—The market is quiet with little doing. Onions—Freshly picked lines £6 per ton, ex store (and musty). Oats —Owing to the enormous quantity of discoloured lines offering, wo find it hard to place grade lines. Prime 4/to 4. 0: musty, and discoloured 15/- per sack, according to condition. Miscellaneous —Wheat 7/3 bushel to 22/6 per sack, pollard (150's) 16/-, barley 25/6 bushel, barley meal (ISO's) 20/-, bran 14/6, linseed meal 20/- cwt, fescue hav £4 ton. straw 3/6 bale, muttonbirds 6d each. Good Cheer finds ready sale. No. .1, 2, 3; horse covers 20/- to 26/-, cow covers 11/- to 15/-, hinder twine 3d lb.

Honey—We have sold quantities of late, and advise intending buyers to place their order early as .supplies gre short in 101b and sGlb tins.

Eggs—-The market has fallen; fresh Circle (guaranteed) 1/6 dozen.

Vegetables—Swedes 2/- to 2/G sack, cabbage to 4/- sack, carrots 2/5 to 4/-, beet 3/- to 3/6 bag. We want any quantity of choice vegetables.

Fruit —We are still handling fair quantities of fruit, and choice coloured dessert apples are wanted anil would probably realise to 10/-, cooking apples 5/6 to G/G, Washington 6/6. Munroes 7/-, SUirmers S/6, Cleopatras 7/-. Poultry—Hens 1/- to 2/-; pillleta are wanted, 3/-, accodring to age. Pigs—Poor demand at present. ~We could do with consignments. tVe have stud lines for .sale. Furniture —Large quantities are continually leaving our showroonis, Spey street. Pay us a call. We can furnisli your every need. Quotes given lo wholesale sellers and effects. AVe stock Day, Son and Hewitt’s animal medicines of all descriptions.

CL EASING- SALE AT AWAKUA PLAINS. Messrs Dalgcty and Co., Did, report having held a very successful clearing sale at Awarua Plains on Friday. We were fortunate in having such a fine day, and a good attendance catne forward. The sale went off with 4 swing from start to finish and good prices were recorded. The 15 cows brought £lO 10/-, £lO 7/6, 3 at £lO, £9 15/- down to £6 10/-, the majority being between the £9 and £lO mark. Fifteen two-year-old steers and heifers were pin-chased by Mr .las. McNeece at £4 10/-, three IS-montlis-old steers to R. Russell at £4 6/-, three yearlings to F. W. Brooks at £2 11/-, five heifers at £3 .16/- to W. Sim. The horses sold well, hut were a particularly good lot, one 5-year-oIQ mare bringing £33, a 6-year-old gelding £27, an S-year-old gelding £22. ' A lino o*f 100 guaranteed soundrmouth ewes brought 20/-, whilst the draj-s, implements, etc., sold at full market rates. Two geese were put at th£ finish of the sale and sold on behalf jof the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund, and lealised £4 5/-. | A splendid luncheon was provided by Mrs Williams, and the thanks oi those present are due to her. LtTMSDEN SALE. There was only a small yarding for the monthly sale held on Friday comprising l ino sheep of all classes. The attendance was fair, and the demand ex-

ceptionally keen considering the class of stuff, the result being that prices were, if anything, a shade firmer than, those ruling at sales in other centres. The National Mortgage and Agency Co. report having harded 700 head, and sold as follows:—Account D. Cunningham, 90 ewes, E. Soper, 18/-. Account F. J. Alley, ISO sound-mouthed ewes, W. Baird, 18/-. Account E. Soper, 41 merino wethers, Jas. Thomson, 7/-. Account R. N. Taylor, 100 two-tooth wethesr, C. Turnbull, 23/10; 100 fat ewes, Borthwick and Co., 20/9; 86 hoggets, J. Campbell, 20/-. Account J. Clearwater, 2 bullocks, J. Harrison, £7 5/-; cow, J. Harrison, £ll 5/-. Account W. Burke, 2 steers, D. Cunningham, £5 1/-. Account D. Cunningham, 11 pigs, £2 15/-, W. Burke.

DUNEDIN TUT ARRETS. GRAIN AND PRODUCE, DUNEDIN, July 24. There is not much doing in the oat market, although there has been some enquiry from the North Island, both for prompt and spread delivery. Reports from Auckland point to an attempt to bring down current values, and persistent rumours are being circulated that large shipments are coming from Vancouver within the next few months, the price being stated to be 2/6, f.0.b., Vancouver. However, it is said that there does not appear to bo much chance of getting freight from this quarter for any large quantity, and, moreover, the shipping rates charged would prove a very heavy additional cost. Buyers, however, are now becoming more cautious. The opinion is expressed that unless some Government orders are placed shortly the present dull market will continue for some time. A Gartons arc unchanged at 4/3 to 4/4; B's, 4/4. Offerings from the country continue on the light side. Prices for chaff remain unchanged. Deliveries are more than equal to the demand, and with shippers unable to get sufficient space for orders, sales arc more difficult to effect. The stores are carrying very full stocks. An enormous quantity of straw chaff is awaiting shipment to Australia, and merchants are now beginning to doubt ■whether they will be able to secure shipping space before the demand in Australia falls off, consequent on the growth of grass following on the coming of spring. Prime oaten sheaf, £7 to £7 5/-; medium to good, £5 10/- to £G (sacks extra). Though the local demand for potatoes is on the slow side, prices are well maintained, and it is reported that a Taieri farmer has just disposed of a lino of 60 tons at £7, on trucks. There is a large quantity of potatoes in the stores, waiting shipment for Sydney, but a considerable proportion of these will have to be re-bagged. If shippers do not secure space shortly they are faced with a heavy loss, as the cablegrams received from Sydney to-day state that New Zealand potatoes are quoted at £S 10/. to £9. Bast Friday the quoattion was £lO for New Zealand Up-to-datos. Prime Oamanis, £7; Taicri-grown, £6 .15/- to £7; medium to good, £4 10/to £6.

WELLINGTON MEAT ESPOST CO. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, duly IT.. The twenty-sixth anmml report of the 'Wellington Meat Export Co. stater, that after providing £4230 3 3/- for the interim dividend for the half-year ended 31st December, and £6548 for depreciation, £32,211 12/0 is available for distribution. This the Board recommends .should be appropriated as follows: Dividend for half-year ended 30th June, £1230 13/S; transfer to equalisation of dividends reserve, £ 1000; refund of amount withdrawn from equalisation of dividends reserve at 30tb June, £1230 13/-; transfer to insurance fund, £5000; transfer to reserve fund, £6000; payment of bonus of two per cent., £2115 6/6; further contribution to patriotic fund (making’ a total of £1150), £500; carryforward, £0163: total, £32,241 12/6. The balance-sheet shows land and premises valued at £171,132 31/6; sundry debtors, £24,031 11/3; consignments and stock's, £100,352 a, JO; reserve fund, £42,631; insurance reserve, £10,100; equalisation of dividends reserve, £8269 7/-. .Freezing, sales and manufactures realised £00,026 0/6. EKEUGXNG BETXJTINS. DUNEDIN, July 25. The dredging returns are: — Rising Sun, Oioz; Rise and Shine T., 430z; Electric No. 1., 370z 17dwt; Rise and Shine No. IX/., 2fioz lodwt; Olrig, 7oz 12dwt.