COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7987, 16 March 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. (Speoial to Age.) The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., Wellingtuu, report aa follows: —Maizo 4s 9d per bushel. Whoat 38 Gd per bushel Oats, piime feed 2a 3d to 2s Gd. Crushed oats 2s 10J. Seed oats, Duns, Algerians and White Tartars, 2s lOd. Barley, food, 2s 9d; Cape seed 3s 3d. Peas, Prussian Blues, 4s 3d. Rice meal £5 per ton. Pollard £6 to £6 5s per ton. Cocksfoot ad to per lb. Rye grass 4s 9d per bushel. Cowgrass, colonial, 75s per cwt. Kice, broken, 8a per lOObs in 2001b bags. Chaff, prime oaten sheaf £3 10?, at country stations £3 15s. Stiaw, 45s per ton. Potatoes, Up-to-dates, £U; Derweutsand Brcwn Rivers, £lO to £ll. Onions £8 per ton. Butter, separator, B)<jd to 9(1. Eggy, fresh, Is Gd por dozen. Cheese, best factory mediums, Gd per lb. Honey, 4d to IViid por lb. Bacon. Sides, G}/ e 'd; rolls, 7}4'i ; hams 7}4d. Dressed pork, 56's to 80's, 4d; 80's to 100's, 3?4<1. Cabb'i.ee 3s per sack. CanliUowcr 4s 6d to 5s Gd por sack. Green peas 8d per peck. Apples, local dessert 7s Gd. cookers 4s 6d to 5s Gd per case. Tomatoes 2s Gd to 3s per half case. Grapes 9d to lid per lb. Plums 5s per half case. Peaches Gs per half case. Poultry—■ Roosters 3s Gd, cockerel 4s to 6a for good birds, tablo hens 2s Gd to 3s, ducks 3s Gd to sf», g<?eso 6s, guinea fows 10a, all at por pair. i ALFREDTON STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, held their fortnightly sale nt the Alfredton yards yesterday. Though the yarding was smaller than at last sale, over 2,000 sheep were penned. A Jine of 500 4-tooth fat wethdrs, on account of k Mr S. J. P. Allpass, attracted buyers representing the whole of the freezing companies doing business in the district. This was a really prime lot, and easily made the record price of the season at 17s Gd. Fat ewes on the same vendor's account sold at 14s 7d. A large number of smaller lots of breeding ewes came forward, but, being in most instances second-class ewes, competition was not so keen as at previous sales However, only two small pens failed to sell, and all other sheep were cleared, forward 2-tooth wethers made 14s 2d to 14s 9d, woolly lambs 9s 6d, breeding ewes 10s to 12s Bd, culls from 3s 6d. A large number of rams were submitted, good English Leicesters selling from l%gn to Southdowns 10s to l%gn, aged Shropshires and other rams 5s to 108. Only two lines of cattle came forward, one pen of 2%-year and 3-year steers selling at 68s'6d, and the other was not sold.

UPPER HUTT STOCK SALE Messrs Dalgety ' and Co., Ltd., Wellington, repoit having held their usual sale in the Upper Hutt yards, on the 14th instant, when a full yarding of sheep was offered, but not such a large entry as usual of cattle. Sheep were keenly competed for, and the whole yarding except a few rams were readily disposed of. Fat cattle sold well, but stores were hard to quit. The following were prices realised:—Two tooth ewes 15s 6d, 4 and 6-tootb ewes 16s, fresh full-mouth ewes 13s to 13s 7d, inferior ewes 9s 6d to lis 6d, store wethers lis Id to 13s 3d, fat and forward wethers 16s, forward lambs lis, store iambs 7a 7d to 9s 6d, cull lambs 3s sd, rams %%n to fat cows £4 7s 6d to £5 Is, milk cows £3 5s to £5 10s. 3-year-old bullocks £5 Is; 15-month steers £2, yearling heifers £1 7s 6d, calves 15s to 17s 6d, scringing heifers £3 to £3 15s, 15-month heifers £2 7s 6d, dry cows £1 15s 'to £3.