Commercial.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXI, Issue 3570, 26 June 1903, Page 2

Commercial.

SOUTHERN STOCK SALES

ADDINGTON. Fat cattle—Steers £6 15s to £ll2a 6d ; extra prime, €l2 to €l3 17s fid; heifers €6 2s 6d to €9 10a ; cows £5 17s fid to £11; beef 27s to 80s per 1001 b.

Fat lambs—Tegs 17s 8d to 21s fid ; extra prime, 81a; freezers, 18s to 17s ; butchers’ 12s 3d to 17s fid.

Fat sheep —' Prime freezing wethers 18a to 24s 3d; lighter weights, 15s LOd to 17a.fid; merino wethers for freezing 16s 3d to 20s ; lighter, 14s 8d; prime young ewes, 18» to 225; freezing, 13s to 16s 9d ; butchers’ 15s to 17s 6d; others Us to 14s 6d ; wethers and ewes, 16s Id to 21s.

Pigs—There was only a moderate yarding of fat pigs and the presence of outside buyers ‘ firmed” the market for baooners, which sold at 46s to 635, equal to 4fd to 5d per lb ; porkers realised from 26s to 39s 6d, equal to 5d per lb. BURNSIDE. Fat cattle.—Beat bullocks £9 10s to £ll 5s ; medium £7 10s to £8 17s fid ; best heifers and cows, £D to £ll 7s fid; good, £6 10s to £8 10s ; light, £4 10s to £6.

Fat sheep—249o were penned. Competition for prime was good, and these realised up to last week’s rales, while for medium the demand was less keen and prices were lower. Best crossbred wethers, 17s 9dto J.9s 9d; extra heavy, 20s 9d ; good to beat, 14s to 17s fid ; best ewes, 17s to 18s 3d, extra heavy, 20s 9d; medium to good, 12a to 14s fid ; light, 9e to lls. • Lambs—ss4 were yarded, prices being about equal to last week’s but the quality was inferiox-. Best 13s 6d to 16s; medium 12s to 13s 3d ; others, 8s to lls.

Pigs—42 were penned, all sorts ruling in favour of vendors. Slips, 15a to 18s 6d ; stores, 26a to 28s; porkers, 30a to 46a; baconera, 32s to 58s; heavy pigs, up to 755.

STORTFORD LODGE

Messrs Wanley and Lanauze report on their fortnightly sale at Stortford Lodge on Tuesday;— Both sheep and cattle yards were well filled with good stuff, and there was a large attendance, with brisk bidding. Beef was somewhat easier ; prime mutton held well. We quote: —Fat ewes 10s 9d to 12a, forward ewes 8a 6d to 8a Bd, fat wethers (light weights) 11s to 11s 10d, gummy ewes 5s to 5s 6d. Fat cows ■£6, fat hejfers (light) £4 10s, good vealers £3, weaners 18s to 355, yearling heifers £2 15s.

tfSrOOE: REPORTS

Lowes and lorns report as follows on tbeir Pahiatua stock sale:— There was a comparatively small . yarding of stock. Sheep found ready ' competition throughout, and all lots were disposed of. Cattle were composed chiefly of dairy heifers in calf, those backward, or which there was a large number, failed to sell, the bulk of other classes of cattle sold at late prices. Forward wethers made 12s 3d to 12s 6d ; lambs, 4s 7d to 7s 6d for good , poor ewes in lamb, 7s fat and forward ewes, 11s ; fat cows £5 5s to £6 ; forward bullocks, £6 15a ; 2-yr steers, £4 11s ; heifers in calf up to £5 16s ; weaners up to £2 6s.

GRAIN REPORT

Wellington, June 24. Mr F. Pownall, of the New Zealand and Canterbury Farmers’ Co-Op. Associations, reports as follows, all quotations being free on truck Wellington, sacks extra, unless specified:— Oats.—Early contracts for Australia are monopolising all over-sea trade, though bad weather is- affect-

ing threshing, and majority of crops under offer shew signs of rain. Bright B grade Danish ire worth 2s Id, Duns are scarce at 2s 3d, Gartens 2s 3|d, Canadians 2s 4d, Southland S-Bills are being held for 2s 2d, which is not meeting with buyers’.idea of value. Wheat.—Outside markets offer no

inducement for export, but any lines of clean milling available find ready clearance, locally, at 4s 6d. Overabundant supplies of inferior, unfit for gristing, have weakened value of feed to 4s Id ; soft and shrivelled, 3s lOd ; seconds, 8s 6d.

Potatoes.—Growers are pitting, with view to advance in the autumn.

though the outlook is not unless South Africa proves a good field for operations. Derwents ace stationary at £3 os ; other kinds, £3.

Maize—Demand is quiet at 4s Is.

Barley.—Malting is slow of sale at 4s 3d. Common qualities are being neglected at Bs 3d while feed wheat is offering so freely. Pearl barley, £ls (b.i.); pig-meal, £8 (s.i.).

Beans.— Horsebeana are active at 8a XOd ; crushed, 4s Id. Peas.—Partridge are firmer at 4s 4d, with rapidly diminishing stocks. Split peas, £l6 (b.i); blue Prussians, 6s 6d.

Bran.—Business is steady a,t £4 6s (s.i.).

Pollard.—Consumption is equalising output at £0 10s (s.i.). Oatmeal,—Langdowus and leading millers quote £ll (s.i.) for 25’s ; rolled oats, £l4 (s.i.). Chaff.—Farmers are taking ad-* vantage of a bare market to further advance cost (q dealers, Northern are asking 90s (a.r.); southern, 87s 6d (s.s.). Oat-straw chaff is a glut at 47s 6d (s.r.). Hay, -All-clover is duff at 100 s ; rye-clover, 65s ; pressed "straw, 42s 6d.

Grass Seed.—Good samples of white clover are shewing at 90s; cowgrass, 67s 6d ; machine dressed rye, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; cocksfoot, 2£d to 3|d. 2