COMMERCIAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 97, 19 December 1912, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

NEW SOUTH WALES WPI PAT

Sydney, December 18

It is estimated taut tire wheat production of New South Wales tins year will be 24,305,000 bushels, an average of 10.9 bushels per acre. LONDON MARKETS. z London, December 18. Copper, £74 5s to £io 12s Od. Tin, £227.

Newton King’s Weekly Report. On Friday, 6th instant, at the Waiwakaiho yards there was a small entry which sold as follows: 10-montli heifers up to £4 4s, coloured yearling steers £i 19s to £2 7s 6d, empty 2,year heifers £4 3s to £4 19s, bulls £-> 5s to £2 6s, fat cows £5 13s to £o lbs 6d, forward cows £4 4s to £4 fos, ( store cows £3 7s 6d to £3 17s, splurging heifers up to £7 ,dairy cows up to £7 2s Gd. , At Urenui on Monday, 9th, there was a fair entry but a small attendance. Bidding throughout was not very keen but most of the yai cling was disposed of during the day as follows : 15-months heifers £3 4s bd to £3 8s 6cl, very mioice 15-months Jerseys £5 7s, 15-month steers £3 os to £3 6s, 24-year steers, coloured, £3 18s to’£4, store cows from £3 10s to £4 16s, fat cows from £5 to £6, bubs up to £5 9s, springing heifers £o los to £7 12s 6d, small £4 lbs to £4 los, ■dairy cows £6 15s to £7 ss, mixed ewes and lambs 17s 6d, mixed ewes and wethers 17s 7d. - At Douglas on the same day 10-mtii steers sold at from £2 15s to „3 os 6rl dairv 24 year heifers £4 2s to £4 ss,’ 15-mths he iters £3 ss, 2-year steers £4 4s fat cows £5 os to £o Ids be , forward cows £4 2s to £4 12s, small store cows £2 lbs to £3 14s, springing heifers £5 12s bd to £7 Pis bd. On Tuesday, 10th instant, there w.ss a fair yarding in the Strut lord yards with a fairly representative attendance of buyers. Owing to shearmo- operations in the back country nomany attended from those parts. Bidding'opened very slowly but improved considerably during the sale, and, with a few exceptions, a very good clearance was made. A big number ot bulls were yarded and sold very readily. Store and forward cows met with very keen competition; very tew springers were yarded. Prices realised were as follows: Bulls from £2 14s Gel to £6 10s according to weight and quality, 15-mths heifers from £3 os to £3, 16s, small store cows £2 os to £3 4s, forward cows £3 19s to £5 Is fat cows £5 5s to £6, empty 2|yr coloured heifers £5 Hs, grades £3 Ids 6d to £4 5s 6d,'24-yr steers (good) £5 Jerseys £3 12s, springing heifers £o 10s to £5 17s 6d, fat and forward wethers los 9d. At Stony River on Wednesday 11th there was a small entry with a good attendance. Competition was not brisk but most of the lines were cleared as follows: 15-mths steers £2 15s to £3 2s, small and bad coloured £1 7s 6d to £2 2s 6d, 15-months grade Jersey heifers £3 los Gel to £4 3s, grades £2 10s to £3, 2-year empty heifers £4 to £4 ss, fat cows £5 Is to £5 12s, forward cows £3 19s 6d to £4 13s 6d, small .store cows £2 17s 6d to £3 9s, bulls £2 17s to £6, cows and calves £4. 6s 6d, springing heifers £4 5s to £5 12s 6d, springing cows up to £7 12s Gd. Private Sales for the week as follows: Dairy caws.£7 .10s, fat cows £7, store cows £3 10s, fat bullocks £9 2s 6d, 15-mths steers £3 to £3 10s, 15month heifers £3 2s to £3 10s, small £2 12s 6d, empty heifers £4 10s to £5 10s, 34-year bullocks £o 15s to £6 ss, .springing heifers £G, lambs to lift 9s 6d, wethers to lift 15s 6d, mixed ewes and lambs £1 0s Gd to £1 3s 6d (in the wool), hoggets (good) 16s 6d, fat wethers, shorn, 15s 9d to 17s 6d.