COMMERCIAL

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3430, 26 November 1900, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

SATURDAYS 3AJ.r.S. The Farmors' Exchange Company lepor on their last Saturday's sale as follows — Good entries iv every department, and ; full attendance of buyers. Poultry : Prim roosters 3s 3d to 4s, medium and small 2s 6< to 3s ; hens 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; ducks 3s 3d t--38 6d per pair ; geose 2s 6d each. Pigs.---70 yarded, and good clean well-fed weaner •old at from 7s to 10s, slips 12s 6d to 16s rongher sorts from 7s to 10s 6d, small rats o suckers 3s 6d to ss. Table potatoes, suppl equal to demand, 5s to 5s 3d, seed 4s broken fowl wheat 6s 6d, whole 7s 6d pc Back, sacks m. . Butter 6d to 6>Jd, eggs 5£ to 6d, bacon 3d to 3£d, cheese, loaf, 6id largs size 6d, taa 7s to 9s per 51b. tin. The Canterbury Farmers' Co-operativ Association, Limited (per Mr J. Mundell auctioneer), report on the horse and cattl market, at Tattersall'3 yards, for Saturdaas follows : — Our entry comprised 5 draught, light harness, and hackney horses farm implements and harness. There vras . la.rg6 attending of persons interested dvi ing the sale, and all young horses elicite^ keai competition, and about two-third of onr yardiag changed owners at the fol lowing quotations : — Driughts, young wit] trials, £30, £35, £40, £43, £44 10s t £48; ditto., light and aged, £12, £14 10s £15, £18 to £22 ; light harness horses, £1 10s, £14 10s, £16 10s to £20 ; spring-dra horses, £28 to £34 10s ; ponies, £5, £12 t £13 10s ; implements and harness sold a satisfactory prices.