Dominion Produce

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIV, Issue 100, 27 August 1930, Page 6

Dominion Produce

ON LONDON MARKET. FROZEN MEAT QUOTATIONS. The New Zealand Meat Producers' Board has received the following cable from its London Office dated 22nd August, 1930, advising that the following are approximate average prices realised for the week, based on actual transactions of wholesale quantities of the descriptions of meat mentioned, and are for representative parcels of the goods offering during the week, being for business done on the basis of delivered to Smithfield Market and ex London stores. — New Zealand Canterbury and North Island crossbred wethers and maiden ewes 48/56 sd; 57/46 4fd; 65//2 4§d. Selected North Island ditto, 48/5f 4|d; 57/64 44d; 65/7244d. New Zealand ewes 48/64 3Jd; 65/72 3d. New Zealand Canterbury lambs, u/36 B'd; 37/42 Bgd; 43/50 B§-d; 2nd quality average 33, 7fd. N.Z. other South Island brands u/30 S|d; 37/42 B£d; 43/50 Sid. Selected North Island brands, u/36 B‘d; 37/42 B£d; 43/50 Bjd; 2nd quality average 31, 7|d. Other N.I. brands, first quality, u/36 8-’d; 37/42 Bgd; 2nd quality, average 31, 7Jd: Argentine lamb first quality u/36 6 hl; 37/42 64d. New Zealand beef ox fores 3§d; ox hinds s|d. Argentine Chilled beef ox fores, 4gd; ox hinds Bd. Australian frozen beef ox crops, 0/100 3fd; ox hinds 0/160 sld. New Zealand prime porker pigs, 60/100 8d; 101/120 7Jd. NX prime baconer pigs 121/180 7d. Lamb Market! Tendency of market is easier. Demand lift£< fallen off slightly owing to holiday season. Mutton: Wethers, market remains .steady and unchanged. Ewes, market is quiet. N.Z. Porker Pigs: Prices are firmer on short supplies. N.Z. Baconer Pigs: Market quiet and unchanged.

To prevent fowls eating eggs, adequate nesting should be provided, so that breakages may not occur. Place an egg in the yard and watch it for a while. In this way the culprits can be identified, and they should be eliminated from the flock. Paddocks that have been treated with nitrogen in May and which will be eaten down in July can be treated with nitrogen again, or preferably with ammoniated super, so as to provide August and September grass crops. , It was estimated at the beginning of June that there w r ere 6605 bales of wool stored in Gisborne, and just how much of this will be offered at the next winter sale to bo held here is difficult to determine. The size of the next offering no doubt will depend on the trend of the market in the meantime. If values remain firm, brokers expect a fairly substantial catalogue, but on the other hand if a drop is recorded growers may decide to hold still further. Those who have no fresh grass in the leaf stage —the new grow'th that only nitrogen will give—to feed to their cows at the present time should give them liberal supplies of silage. Those rvho have in past seasons fed silage to the cows for several weeks before calving have testified to its great value in making the cows thoroughly fit for the critical calving time and to the absence of calving troubles in consequence.