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Southland Times, Issue 17662, 21 February 1916, Page 4

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AGKICULTUEAL EVENTS POE WEEK: ENDING- FEEEUAET 26. —Monday, February 21. — Messrs Tuach and Neale's clearing sale ut Waimumii, by Messrs Henderson and Co., Ltd. —Tuesday, February 22. Stock sale at Wallacetown. —Wednesday, February 23. — Stock sale at Kapuka. Thursday, February 23. Stock sale at Wyndham. Friday, February 21. Slock sale at Waikaka. Stock sale at Lumsdcii. THE EXALT O. William Todd and Co. report the following sales on Saturday, February 19;—■ Pigs—.Medium entry. Suckers, 11/6 to 11 weaners, 16/- to 20/-; stores, 26/to 23,6: porkers, £2; fat pig, £3. Poultry—Good demand. Hens, 3/1 to 2,-; pullets, 2/4 for small, to 3/7 for White Leghorns; cockerels, 6d to 1/6; ducks, 2'l to roosters, 1/9 to 2/7; geese, 2.8 to 3/-. Cow and calf, £3 13/-. Potatoes —£3 to £3 1-0/- per ton; slow of sale. Oats. —l3/- to 14/- per bag; inferior, 7/- to 10. - per bag; oaldust, 4/6. Chaff —1/6 to 3/- per bag. Onions. —6/6 to 7/- per cwt. EXCHANGE SALE ROOMS. .Messrs .McKay Bros, send the following r.-port of prices ruling during the. past week:— .Poultry.—Small entry. Ducks, 2/6 to 2 9; hens, 1/4 to 1/S; roosters, 1/3 to 1, 11: half-grown fowls, 9d to 1/-. Pigs.—-Srrwill entry. Suckers, 11/- to 33 6: weaners, IS, - to 17/6; stores, 23/to 3 2 -. Fruit. — Largo supplies came to hand. Plums, Hid to 2 Vi:d; greengages, 3d; peaches, IQd to 2Vid; pears (dessert), 6 - to 7 - per case: cooking, 3 - per case; tomatoes (hothouse I, 3d to Gd: outdoor, 2d to 4d: apples, cooking, 3/6 per case; dessert (American), 10/-; New Zealand, 7 6. Wheat—We have large stocks of primes! quality, price 22/6 per sack. Chaff. —Market still quiet and uneventful. Best quality, £3. ex store: fair, £l, ex store: off colour, 2 - to 2/6 per suck; straw chaff, 1 /(I per hag. Oats. —Prime feed (Gartous or -Sparrows), 2/6 per bushel, ex store; fair feed, 12'6 to 14/-. General Produce. —Straw, 3/- per bale, hay (threshed), 2/6 per bale; bran, 11/per sack; barley meal, 13/6 per sack. Onions. —6, - per bag; special quotes for quantities. Potatoes. —Market toneless; local demand being practically nil. Southland potatoes are not yet fit for shipping, therefore activity in that direction has not commenced. Price, eg store, £3 per ton: poor finality unsaleable. Furniture. —We report good business in all lines. BEAT BEOS.’ EEPOBT. Bray Bros., Ltd., submit their weekly market report, as follows: — New Potatoes —In full supply: £3 to £3 in '- per ton. Onions. Chaff Discoloured, 1.6 to 2/- bag: good to £4 : prime, £3. On Is--Discoloured, 9. - to la, - stick: gimil, I 2 6 to I I -. Wheat 18 - per sack; good quality. Linseed Meal —2 1/- cwl. Pressed I fay, 2 6 bale; straw, £3 10per ton. Ee-cnc Hay —2 6 bah-; £2 13 - per ton. Vegeta ides —Gabbage, 3 - to 3 6 bag; carrot, I 3 to I HI (in/., bundles; turnips, 1 :; to I 6 dozen bundles; green pens, li.,d In 2d 11»; French bca-ns, I Mil to 2d” lb. Fruit —Peaches, l'..|d to 2'jd: plums, 1i , d lo 2d; pears, 1 : 'm i 1 to K 1 ; il; cooking apples, I - to 3 - case. Pigs—Fair demand; suckers, 12,6 to 12 - each. Poultry. —Good enquiry; entries solicited.

F'urniture —We have to report a continuance of public support. Our largo varieties of linoleums take the taste. BXiTESSDAIiE STOCK SALE. Notwithstanding the fact that farmers are busy with the harvest, there was a good attendance at the Riversdale stock sale, which was held on Friday in fine weather. The yarding (reports the Ensign) consisted of about 5000 sheep of all classes. A large number of buyers attended, and practically everything sold under the hammer, prices for all classes of sheep showing a substantial rise. Good store wethers in particular were in demand. A very fine line of 1060 twotooth wethers from Fairpluce Estate, sold by Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., in lots of 560 and 500, realisedw 22/8 and 22/3 respectively. The following sales were effected: — New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd.—3.o9 fat wethers 26/3, 250 wethers 15/6, 33 fat ewes 22/4, 50 two-tooth ewes 20/8, 22 fat ewes 22/-, 6 rams 11/-, 9 ewes 17/6. Dalgotv and Co., Ltd.: —100 f.m. ewes 13/2, 10o’ do. 13/-, 45 fat ewes 19/3, 147 wethers 21/-, 560 two-tooth wethers 22/8, 500 do. 22/3, 4 0 fat ewes 22/9, two fat lambs 21/-, nine rams 7/6. Passed In;— 147 ewes 20/-. Southland Farmers’ Co-operative Association, Ltd.:—lß6 lambs 16/8, 30 fat ewes 13/3, 194 two and four-tooth wethers 21/-, 400 m.s. lambs 16/-, 28 fourtooth wethers 23/10, 75 two-tooth do. 24/9, 5 rams 7/-. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd. — 150 lambs 15/7, 100 two-tooth ewes 23/-, 110 do. 22/10, 56 small lambs 8/9. Passed in:—4 6 two and four-tooth ewes 19/6. National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd.: —36 ram lambs 11/7. Passed in;— 250 wethers IS/-, 48 two-tooth ewes 19/2. Henderson and Co., Ltd.; —301 twotooth wethers 16/ S. OBEFXTKZ SALE. At Orepuki saleyards on Friday J. R. Mills and Son held their usual monthly sale. Following were some of the prices realised; —On account of A. McPherson, 51 lambs, 17/-; A. Dillon, 71 ewes and lambs, 12/5; T. Watson, 6 cows, £8 2/6; 1 bull, £5 5/-; R. Stuck, 28 calves, 38/-; K. Coote, 2 cows, £5 1/-: R. Metcalfe, 1 bull. £7: 6 calves, £2 1/-; T. Tecofsky, 1 cow, £lO 7/6; 1 heifer, £3 5/-; J.C. Shaw, 4 calves £1 17/-; 1 heifer, £3 6/-; W. Roby, 2 steers, £7; F. Fitzgerald, 1 bull, £5 15/-: 1 heifer, £3 5/-; 1 heifer, £3. 7/6; A. Grey, 7 steers, £5 11/-; 1 steer, £S 5/-; Mrs Flanagan, 1 cow, £10; 1 cow, £lO 2/6; R. Fitzgerald, 2 cows, £7 12/6; J. White, 10 calves, £1 9/-. The suburban area of 20 acres, belonging to Mr J. T. Simpson, was sold to Mr J. L. Priinz for £2O 15/- per acre. MEAT SHIPMENTS. The National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following advice regarding frozen meat shipments for tlie month o£ January;— NEW ZEALAND.

DUNEDIN MARKETS. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. DUNEDIN, February 19. Business in tiie local oat market is on tilf; slack side, as agents are now awaiting tiie appearance of the new cereals. Sellers are not now so keen on doing forward business, particularly for the early months of the year. A Gartons are quoted, nominally, at 2/8 to 3/9. f.o.ii,, s.i. The estimated return of 12,722,733 bushels of oats for tile current season, as against an actual yield of 1 1,136,301 bushels for 1914-13, is viewed with a certain feeling of doubt by local merchants. They are of the opinion that, seeing that a considerably larger area was put down this year, tire estimated total yield will bo higher than that stated. This, too, in face of the fact that some of the Canterbury crops suffered damage, and that the Department of Agriculture's estimate of the return per bushel is six bushels below the actual yield per acre last season. There is not a great deal of chaff coming forward, farmers being busy witli the harvesting. Tiie demand is pretty well confined to prime lines. Prime oaten sheaf, £3 3/-; medium to good, £1 to £4 3 L (sacks extra). .Potatoes. — Peninsula, 9 - cwt: Oamaru and Taieid, up to £7 In. - per ton; inferior lots, £3 10, - to £6. AUCKLAND MARKETS. GRAIN AND PRODUt’K. ArGKLAND, February 1!'. Since last repoyt tin- Whangape arrived with largo shipments of oats from the South, which replenished this market. A. large proportion of tiie cargo was distributed from Hit; ships side, as stocks generally laid lain down. The Southern market is very weak tor oats as (lie new Southland crop, which will lie ready in March-April, is being offered at inneli lower figures. 1 nder such circumstances. tiie present price of 4 6 to 4, 8, ex store, cannot long lie maintained. Tiie Ganterbury crop of oats is light this season, and growers are asking very high figures' for the grain from (hat. distriet Seed Algerian oats are selling for sowing for autumn green feed. There is also a demand for Sparrowbills for a similar

purpose. There Is very little change in the position of the market for milling wheat this week. Merchants and millers are holding off the market, with the idea that the surplus of Australia’s record crop must he offered shortly at lower rates than those at present fixed by the Government, and tills would re-act on the prices ruling in Xew Zealand. Already lower rates are being asked by growers in New Zealand for the new crop of wheat, which should be ready for market next March. Fowl wheat is also being offered at lower rates for forward delivery. The quotation to-day is still 6/3 to 6/5, ex store. Supplies of chaff from the South are practically exhausted in Auckland just now. The next shipment from Blenheim leaves Picton at the end of this week. Meanwhile, the market is being kept going with supplies of local chaff. The market remains steady at last week’s rate. Tlie local market keeps very firm for potatoes, the price to-day ruling from £ll to £ll 10/- per ton. Supplies are not heavy at the present time, and it is therefore expected these rates will be maintained until the local autumn crop is ready for digging, early next month. At present potatoes, are being obtained from Hawke’s Bay, Hangltikei, and Wairarapa for the Auckland market, as well as small lots from the Bower Waikato. The local autumn crop is usually sufficient to carry this market until the potatoes come forward from the South. TTMABU MARKETS. GRAIN AM) PRODUCE. TIMARU, February 19. Business on the local market has been brisk this week, especially in regard to wheat, a large quantity of which lias now changed hands. Compared with last week, prices are a little easier for Tuscan, but Velvet has undergone no change. Numerous sales of Tuscan have ‘ been made at 5/-, delivered Tinraru; Hunters at 5/1, on the same basis, and Velvet at 5/3 on trucks. It was said to be doubtful to-day whether the latter price would be repeated. Tuscan and Tied Chaff, in equal quantities, have changed hands at 5/- on trucks. A sale of Tuscan was made to-day at equal to 5/OVi, delivered at Timaru. The grain statistics published by the Government to-day are said to be calculated to have a weakening tendency on the market, as assuming them to be accurate, they disclose a surplus over and above the dominion’s requirements for consumption and seed. In addition to this, there was a good deal more carried over to this year than was carried over the previous year, and flour is now coming into New Zealand from Australia in fairly large quantities. To-day 2630 sacks of this flour were landed at Byttelton, and there is very little prospect of New Zealand being able to export any of its wheat. Most of the wheat that is being bought at present is going to fill Southern orders, the Taieri wheat not being on the market yet to any extent. There is an estimated crop of 100,000 bushels at the Taieri this season, and it is expected that if this is harvested in good condition, there will be no further outlet in Dunedin for Northern wheat. A sale, of 2000 sacks of Velvet and Tuscan was made in the Taieri district on Wednesday last at 5/3 all round, on trucks. Good whole fowl-wheat is worth 4/9 on trucks. Comparatively few oats are offering, but a few sales have been made during the week at on trucks for. good Cartons. For oatsbeaf chaff £4 5/- is being offered, but growers are not disposed to accept this. Outside markets do not warrant merchants in’ offering any more than the price quoted.

Sheep. Lamb, January, I9IR . . 166,832 205,057 January, 1915 . . -121,612 277,213 Increase, J 91 ft 12,220 17,814 AUSTRALIA. Sheep. Lamb. January, 191 ft . 11,000 41,000 January, 1015 . . 180,000 111,000 ARGO INTINK. Sheep. Bam b. January, 1 '.1 1 G . 71,000 1 7,000 January, 1915 . 60,000 3 2,000 Fro z. Beef. Chid. Beef. q rs. qrs. January, I9lft . . 215,000 105,000 January, 1915 . 03,000 130,000