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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14363, 14 May 1920, Page 2

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WESTFIELD FAT STOCK MARKET,

Dalgety mul Ho,, Lid., report having held their fat slock sale at Westfield on Wednesday as follows: —-Beef. —A large yarding. The market was mneli easier, only prime rail In b eins - rnmpcted for. Extra prime £2 10s, prime );•,> (Is lo £2 Ss ordinary 38s lo £2 2s; row. exira prime £2 as. prime £2 lo £2 Its. ordinary 33s lo 38s. Sheep.—Heavy yard-' Inc. Best wethers 30s (id, prime 30s lo 3as, others 27s Oil to 295; ewes lo £2, prime 28s lo 335, others 2as lo 28s. Halves. —,\ very slack sale. Runners £5 lo £3 10s vealers £2 10s lo 30s, others I Os. Piss. —A good yarding. Ridding- was not brisk. Ra c oners £(i In £5, choppers £5 lo £4, porkers £2 10s to £3 Lambs; A fair yarding. Rest 30s, prime 2is to 28s, others 18s to 225. The New Zealand I,nan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report: At. Westfield fat stock market on Wednesday, beeL‘was penned in more than average numbers, competition was dull and prices were again easier. Choice ox sold to £2 {ls per 1001 b, ■primeox £2 5s to £2 8s per 1001 b, inferior and rough £1 18s to £2 Is per JOOlp. Cow and heifer beef £1 18s to £2 7s per 1001 b. Steers sold al front, for best, £J(i to £lO 15s (no extra heavy weights were yarded), others £l2 to £ls 17s Gd, Inferiority fatted £7 2s Gd . In £ll 17s Gd. Gowa mul heifers sold at £7 to £l3 55., Sheep were penned in large numbers, quotations being on a par with last week’s report. No extra heavy prime wethers or ewes were j penned. Heavy prime wethers £1 J7s In £2 Is 3d medium prime wethers £1 1 is (o £l.l'6s Od, light prime wethers £l. 11s to £1 13s Od, inferior and small wethers £ I 7s lo £1 10s Od: heavy primp owes £1 11s to £1 14s Od, medium £1 8s to £1 10s Od, light £1 5s to £1 7s Od, small and unfinished 15s upwards. Calves came forward in large numbers. Good butchers’ sorts sold freely, others were easier: runners sold from £4 as to £l2: heavy vealers £3 5s to £4 2s Gd, medium £2 18s to £3 4s. light £1 15s to £2 17s lighler fat calves 18s to 335, fresh dropped 10s In 17s. An average yarding of pigs were slightly better than last week, the market easing as Hie- sale progressed. Baconers, £4 5s to £6 7s Gd: porkers, £3 to £4 is. Lambs, penned in average numbers, sold under steady competition at late quotations. No extra heavy prime iambs 1 were penned. Heavy prime lambs £1 8s lo £1 12s, medium £lT>s'tdi£i'7s 3d, "light £1 2s to £1 4s Od small and unfinished 15s to £1 Is Od. ‘ HIDES, SKINS AND TALLOW. Alfred Buckland and Sons, Ltd., of the Haymarket, report having field their weekly sale of hides, skins and tallow on Tuesday. Best hides and calfskins declined slightly in value. Faulty and damaged sorls were hard to dispose of even at low prices. Hides.—Cow, best grades 17d, seconds 'lsd, ox light 17d lo 174 ti. medium 18d, heavy 18 HI lo 20}cl; cut hides, 12d to 15d; kips, IGd to 17d; yearlings, IGd to J7J<l; calfskins, heavy 22d to 2.4 d. light 36d to 30d. cut. calfskins 21d lo 2'id slippy and damaged 2d to 12d. Horse.hides, 15s to 28s Gd each, according to size and condition. ! Tallow.—ln barrels and tins, 5Gs lo 60s per cwf. Bones.—£o per ton (dry condition). Horsehair—ls Od lo 2s per lit for , tail, Is 5d to Is 8d for mixed. LONDON WOOL SALES , Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd., have received the following cablegram from their London office, under date of 7th inst:—‘“/Wool sales closed with less spiril, and prices were rather lower. As compared with last sale’s closing rates, super combing merino arc 5 per cent to 1(1 per cent lower; good combing merino, 10 per cent to 15 per cent lower; average merino, lo per cent to 20 per cent lower; faulty merino Jo per cent to 20 per cent lower: good fine crossbred wools 10 per cent lower; average and faulty fine crossbred wools lo per cent lower. Withdrawals of medium and coarse crossbred wools were fairly heavy. French buyers wore operating cautiously, and American buyers are operating very 1 ittic. J ’ A PERFECT FOOD RECIPE. Pancakes made with Tucker’s Pancake Fiour have become a popular staple food in till parts of tljis Dominion. Tucker’s Pancake Flour enables the preparation of most delicious pancakes—pancakes that arc at once wholesome and economical. They are not the stodgy, heavy kind, hut the sort that are pleasant to oat and satisfying to the appetite, being light and easily digested. The flour is all ready for instant use. You simply have to add water and mix, and in a few minutes your luscious pancakes ore ready. Children revel in these nutritious pancakes and parents appreciate Hie great saving effected by making pancakes the Tucker way. A packet, at a few pence cost,, makes enough pancakes for a whole family. Tasty dishes such as pikelets, omelets, fritters, Yorkshire puddings and so forth are also made from Tucker’s Pancake Flour. There is nothing better as a food. Try a packet now. " S