FOWL WHEAT IN OVER SUPPLY

Southland Times, Issue 24755, 28 May 1942, Page 2

FOWL WHEAT IN OVER SUPPLY

HEAVY OFFERINGS OF OATS Very few samples of wheat have been offered during the week. One or two lines have been accepted as milling quantity because of their having been stacked and having improved in condition. Fowl wheat is in over-supply. There have been heavy offerings of oats with the result that millers and merchants have not been in a position to cope with the deliveries. Any growers able to hold back their offerings for a fortnight or more will help the position. Milling contracts have been accepted at 3/6 a bushel, but it is difficult to get more than 3/3 for free oats. Export business in white clover continues, but there does not appear to be the volume transacted that there was earlier. Merchants have been busy dressing lines on account of growers. The market remains firm. The browntop market is firm. Sales have been made at 2/6 to growers for certified lines, machine dressed. Contractors and farmers are still harvesting, but little seed remains in the crop. It will not be long before some areas will have to be abandoned. FRUIT AND VEGETABLE

Supplies of tomatoes are practically finished for the season. Those that are coming to hand are lacking in colour. Prices range from 6d to 9d per lb. A limited supply of Australian lemons has been received and distributed to retailers. Oranges are unobtainable. A shipment of bananas arrived last week.

Apples and pears of the following varieties are in good supply: Apples, Delicious, Jonathans, Cleopatras, Sturmers and cookers; pears, Winter Neillis, Winter Cole, and cookers. The demand Is good. The vegetable market is erratic. Cabbages, cauliflowers, lettuce, parsnips, carrots and swede turnips are in fair supply at ruling rates, and pumpkins and marrows are also available.

BURNSIDEJSTOCK SALE (P.A.) DUNEDIN, May 27. At the Bumside sale today fat cattle, particularly prime grades, showed a decided improvement and fat sheep, which were in rather short supply, met with keen competition. Lambs, which were rather mixed in quality, sold at late parity, and baconers and porkers showed an improvement to the extent of 4/- to 5/- a head. Fat Cattle—The yarding of 530 was one of the largest seen at Bumside for some time. The rise generally on last week could be quoted on prime quality at 20/- to 25/a head. Cows and heifers, particularly cows, were inclined to be easier. Extra prime heavy bullocks sold to £22/7/6, prime £l7/2/6 to £lB/7/6, medium £l3/10/- to £l5/7/6, light £9/17/6 to £lO/17/6, extra prime cows and heifers to £l3/17/6, prime £B/2/6 to £9/2/6, medium £5/12/6 to £6/12/6. light from £4/2/6. Fat wethers could be quoted at 3/- a head better, while ewes could be quoted fully 4/- to 5/- a head above last week's values. Extra prime heavy wethers made to 43/-. prime 35/6 to 38/-, medium 29/- to 32/-, light from 24/6, prime young ewes to 35/-, prime 26/- to 29/-, medium 20/- to 23/-. light from 16/6. Extra prime lambs sold up to 32/-, prime 27/6 to 29/-, medium 25/6 to 26/9, light 21/6 to 22/9. In the store cattle section a pen of three-year-old bullocks in forward condition made £9/10/-, two and two and a-half year olds £7/10/- to £B, yearlings £4/5/- to £5, fresh cows which were suitable for graziers made from £3/15/- to £4/12/6. For the best dairy cows there were buyers at up to £11; medium made from £7/5/- to £B/15/-. ADDINGTON MARKET (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. May 27. Fat sheep prices advanced sharply at Addington today and fat cattle maintained recent rates for a much larger entry. In the store sheep section ewe lambs made 17/5, wether lambs 12/4 to 16/-, twotooth wethers to 26/-, four and six-tooth to 23/9, two-tooth ewes to 28/6. Prime wethers improved by 2/1 and fat ewes from 2/6 to 3/-- Prime wethers made from 32/- to 39/-, medium 28/6 to 31/-, light to 25/-. prime ewes to 32/1, medium 21/- to 24/-, ordinary 18/6 to 20/-, inferior 15/6 to 18/-. , , . . In the fat cattle yarding good beef made 38/- to 41/- per 1001 b, extra to 42/6, medium 36/- to 37/6, unfinished steer beef 33/- to 35/6, secondary and inferior cow beef 25/to 27/-. Prime steers made from £l4 to £l9 medium £l2/10/- to £l3, light to £ L Sod heifers £lO to £l4/2/6, prime cows £9/5/- to £l3/7/6, medium £5 to £6/5/-, light and aged to £4/15/-.