COMMERCIAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11689, 24 February 1902, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

.» •' • SATURDAY SALES. Tfce Farmers' Exchange Company (per ilr J. B. P.uilasd, aticriuueer;. resiortupon Saturday':; sale as follows : —"iiie eutiy in poultry fair, and tiiere was a keen demand. Youig hens brought 2s; hens, 2s 3d, 2s 6d to 2s 9d; roosters. 5- per pair; and purebred Wyandotte roosters, 2s 6d each; geese, 2s each; ducks, 2s 6d to 2s 9d a pair. Potatoes, 3s 9a, 4s to 4s 6d; wheat. Ss 9d, 8s 6d to 10s. Apples, 2s to 2s 3d a case: 151bs, Is 9d; ana 12Lbs, Is 3d to Is 9d; plums, 201b, Is 9d, 2s to 2s 6d, according to variety, and 63Ibs for ss: greengages, 201bs, 2s; 24ibs, 2s 6d; and yellow gage, 2s 6d. Sundries met with a ready >ale At current rates.

The Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association, Limited {per Mr J. Mundell, anctiocear), rep:;rt on the horse and cattle market, at Tatter«all"s yards, for Saturday, a> ft : —Owing to harvest operations bcijg ia full swing, the yarding was ""mall. There was. however, a strong demand for farm hr-«es, ano anxious pnqniries were made by woald-be buyers, ■where good sorts could be purchased. Present market values are: Draughts, young with trials, £3O, £35, £4O, to £45; ditto., light and aged, £l2, £l4, to £2O; light harness sorts, £l4 to £2O; hackneys, £7 to £l2. Land".—On account of Mr F. H. Barker, ■we sold his farm known as Korari, situate at Winchester, to Mr Patrick Lyons, of Temuka, at a •satisfactory figure.