COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 55, 29 February 1912, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

AMERICAN WHEAT SUPPLY

(Received 29, 10.25 a.m.) London, February 28

Silver -27*d. , , The visible American wheat supply is 110,675,000 bushels.

N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s Report.

The N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Stratford branch, report:— On Friday, 23rd mst., we held our usual monthly sale at our r le Wera yards, when we had a full yarding of cattle and a few pens of sheep. Practically all the cattle were sola, chiefly at" the hammer, only one line of 2-year-old heifers in calf going back without changing hands. Prices were as follows; —Bullocks 100 s, poor weanors 13s to 16s, good lines from 25s to 30s, 18 month heifers -15 s to 555, fat cows 99s to 101 s, 18 to 20 month steers 58s 6d to 695, poorer lines of 18 month steers 40s to 465, 2 year heifers in calf 85s, bulls 30s to 60s, store cows 60s, full mouth ewes 5s 9d to 10s Id, 2 tooth Romney rams 2.V gns, full mouth Romney rams 16s to 20s, full mouth Lincoln rams 17s 6d to 31s Od. Under instructions from Mr. F. W. Johnson we offered his dairy herd, implements, and general sundries, which realised fair prices .Cows from 40s to 60s for store cows, dairy cows from 80s to 142 s Cd, bull 60s, horses 75s to 182 s 6d, hillside plough 67s 6d, “Iron Age” combined cultivator and drill 10s, milk cans 3s to Bs, Bft galvanised iron 2s 3d per sheet,, 7ft iron 2s per sheet, spring cart 40s, cart harness 20s, and general sundries sold well.

We held our usual fortnightly combined sale at our Stratford yards on Tuesday, 27th inst., when we had a good yarding of cattle, and a few sheep, being mostly farmers’ lines, and practically all sold at the following prices:—Poor weaners 15s to 21s, good weaners 2os to 35s (id for good coloured heifers, and one good line of coloured Jersey heifers from a Brookes Road client realised 1-ls Gd, while another from Flint Road was knocked down at 425. One line of Holstein weaners, small, realised 31s Gd, store cows 46s to 725, forward cows 80s to 925, and fat cows from 98s to 110 s, bulls 40s for small, heavier bulls GBs to 110 s, 18 month steers 65s to 70s, cows and calves 40s to 62s Gd, 18 month heifers 14s 6d to 555, fullmouth ewes (is 7d, 2 tooth wethers 10s (for culls) to 11s 9d, 2 tooth ewes 11s 3d, lambs Gs to 7s.