NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3087, 18 May 1917, Page 8

NATIONAL DAIRY SHOW

, ./One of the main .contributions to*'the .kuccesa the National Dairy Show has attained is the fact.that it is hold at the .time of tbo yoar wbon farmers havo more leisure than at any other period. The opportunity js seized by farmers to look for their requirements in laboursaving and other appliances, the- Nationnl ..Dairy Show being the plnce for the picking up of new ideas. "When one considers tho district of which Palmerston ;.North is the centre, it is only fitting ,;that tho Know should extensively cater '•ior.'tho dairying industry. All features .."■-..0f farm, garden and 1 dairy work are comprehensively.classified in the schedule of ..'competitive- exhibits, and include fruit, . :,vegetables,. potatoes, field roots, grain, .grass seeds, cookery, needlework, photography, deer heads, butter, cheese, lionev, -poultry, etc. Tho prizo list is.on a lib■■.eral scale, and those interested should ..write to the secretary, Mr. W. T. Penny. Box 85, Palmerston North, at onco as entries close on June 2. ..' /WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES >• '..Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen >btreot, report wholesale prices as follows :—Fowls' -wheat, prime, (is. i)d. per -bushel; fowls* barley, 4s. lfld. per bushel; ;Cape barley, ss. .per bushbl; blue peas, •',l7s. 6d. per buahel; partridge peas. Bs. i3d. per bushel; maize, feed, ss. &d. per ■bushel; crushed maize, 6s. 3d. per bushel; ;chaff, oa.t 6heaf, 7sMod. per ton; hay, "clover, £6 ss. per. ton; hay, meadow, :£o. jjper ton; flour, in sacks,"" Jl6 ss. per ton; oatmeal, £2S per/ton; pollard, .£8 10s. iper ton; bran, ,£5 ss. per ton; baconi all '.ibest factory, sides, .Is. Id. per lb.; rolls, Vis- 2d. per lb.; hams, Is. 2d.-per'lb.; • Shoulders, lOjd. per lb.; cheese (factory), '''medium, lOd. per lb.; cheese, loaf. lid. iper lb.. Linseed meal: 100'e, £12 55.; .ISO's, £12 155.; 20's, .£l3 55.; linseed nuts, jl2s. 6d. per cwt.; linseed, giouaid cake, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; whole lirseed, 275. per cwt.; rice pollard, '£6 ss. per ton.; rice moal, £G per ton; onions, £9 10s. per ton; potatoes, white skinned, table, £6 ' 10s. to £1 por ton; pig meal. .£0 ss. per ton. All poultry-in very good demand. Hens, 4«. to-ss.' per pair; cockerels, ss. to 6s. 6d. per. lair; ducks (Pekin and .Aylesbury), Bs. per pair; ducks (Indian Jlunners),: 65.,/ per pair; butter (prime bulk), Is. 4d. pei?lb.; turkeys (gobblers), Is.. 2d. ,per'l.b., live weight; turkeys (hensj,- Is. per lb." - live weight; eggs, fresb, 25.-Bd. per'dozen; now laid, 2s. I'd: per dozen; preserved, Is;'lOd. per dozen.