DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 764, 22 July 1916, Page 2

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

STOCK AND GRAIN. [Special to The Buti.l JHJNEDIN, July 21. Exceptionally fine weather, for this period of! the year, lias prevailed during the last week, giving every indication of an early spring. The farming community are mostly all lyusy behind the plough, but in some cases lee ground on the ridges is too hard to turn over with satisfaction. Stock on turnips are. doing very well, and the percentage of deaths is small compared with last year. The. autumn sown crops are beginning to come away since the frost has left. The store sheep market is firmer than ever, owing to the large number of dealers and farmers from the north still operating. The demand is mostly for good lines of young ewes, which are realising from 34/- to i! 7/-. Ewe hoggets are being enquired for, and wellwoolled and grown sorts are making up to 20/- A real good line of 100f) will most probably be. going north to. be sold by auction "next week. Mixed sexes are worth from 10/- to 2-3/6. Competition for all classes of fat sheep was good,, and prices were firm at Burnside on Wednesday. The.quality, on the whole, was only medium. Graziers.were operating, freely for unfinished sorts. Extra prime wethers to 48/0, prime 36/- to 39/-. A good line of 2700 Ronuiey cross two-tooth ewes, the property of Mr A. Macdonald, Cartcrhope, were sold at a figure in the vicinity of 33/-. Some 213 head of fat cattle were penned on Wednesday, a number of which were of good quality. Some,

i however, were of wry poor quality, runt I not (it for butchers. Competition for ; prime.sorts was keen, but medium were jat times neglected. Extra prime buli locks to £25 10/-; prime £l7 .10/- to £2O JO/-; prime cows and heifers, £l4 !to £ls; medium, £1 ] to £l2. Owing to losing their teeth the quality I of fat lambs is only medium, but notwithstanding this, competition is keen. I Prime 25/- to 2S/6; medium 22/- to 24/Store cattle are in good demand, and 'prices are firm at late quotations. 1 Yearlings, well bred, are scarce. I There is no change to report in the oat market. Buyers are not operating freely, and sellers are not inclined to : reduce reserves. The volume of busi- ! ness is, therefore, not heavy, but values I are well maintained. Prime milling 2/9J to 2/10, best feed 2/9 to 2/o£ medium 2/6 to 2/8 (sacks extra). . | The wheat market.is firm, ami in some | respects shows slight improvement on j late quota! ions. Millers arc buyers of good prime lines, and fowl wheat is not over plentiful and meets ready sale. Prime milling velvet 5/2 to 5/4; Tuscan, etc., 4/13 to 4/9; fowl wheat, 4/- to -1/2 (sacks extra). ! The chaff market is faily well sup- ; plied, and all of prime oaten sheaf ■ meet with ready sale on arrival. Oilier j qualities arc not much sought after, except si iaw chat}', which meets ;i good ! demand. Prime oaten sheaf £4 to £4 5/-; medium, £3 .">/- to £•'! 15/-; straw 'chaff, £2 15/- to £3 (sacks extra). Quotations for grain and prodiu-c are jex store Dunedin.