THE CITY MARKETS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1372, 24 February 1912, Page 10

THE CITY MARKETS.

VEGETABLES IN HEAVY SUPPLY. This i week's Sydney shipment to, tho Blair and Allen Street markets consisted Df a few grapes .and Water melons, and the market iyas'rather dull. The grapes arrived .in indifferent order and sold at from ss. to 9s. Gd. per box. Water melons brought lid. to Is. each.' Melbourne pears .arrived yesterday, but they were not iii. the best order.' Local fruits have been arriving from all parts and at prosent the market'is rather over-supplied. The values ruling yesterday were:—Choice peaches, 2s. (id. to 3s.;.other sorts, Is. 6d. to 2?.; plums, Is. 3d. to'3s. Gd. per box; nectarines, 3s. to 3s. Gd. case; apricots, Cs. to 6s. Gd.; dessert pears, Gs. to Gs. 6d. case; cooking pears, 4s. to ss. .case;;'.dessert apples. Cox's ornnge pippins, 6s. Gd., to 75.; other sorts, ss. to 6s. 6d.; cooking apples, 4s. to 4s. 6d.; grapes,:fid. to 7d. per lb.; hothouse tomatoes,' os. Gd. to Gs. 6d per half case; other.Sprls, Is! Bd.. to ss. Gd. per half case; cucumbers, 3s. Gd. to 4s. per half case; hothouse cucumbers, Is. to 2s. Gd. dozen. i Vegetables generally are in heavy Bupply, especially cabbages, choice lines of which are realising only Is. to Is. Gd. per Back. Cauliflowers are worth Gs. to Bs. per sack; carrots, 2s. 6d. to 3s. Gd.; .beetroot,'; Is; to j 55.; parsnips; "4s. Gd. to ss. fid.; turnips, 2s. to 35.; French beans, 4s. fid.. to*; : ss.', Cd; .part sack; peas, 7s. Gd. to 9s. sack, according to quality; vegetable marrows, 2s. Gd. to 3s. sack. Is. fld. to 2s. case; onions, illOper ton; lettuce, Is. (id. to'2s. 6d. case; potatoes,' 4s. to ss. Gd. cwt., according to sample; fowls, 2s. fid. pair; ducks, 4s. to 4s. 6d. pair; eggs, Is. id. dozen.

'Fortune'awaits the Dairy Farmer who throws old-fashioned, methods aside and adopfV modern money-saving contrivances.'.; Any'sensiblo'farmer, knows that cooled,'.milk, and away superior to milk that is allowed to' cool itself. The' former .secures bigger, money than tho latter'. 'Cool your milk in one of our copper'coolers, which are 24 inches wide amU have 4ft.; cooling surface. Price, 855.4-a'nd cheap at that. Albert J. Parton,"' Carterton.—Advt.