WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 127, 15 February 1918, Page 8

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Alien Street, report wholesale prices as follow: —Feed barley, 05..6 d. per bushel; maize, feed, 6s. lOd. per bushel; crushed maize, 7s. 2d. per bushel; oats, seed (Algerians, > machine-dressed), 4s. lid. per bushel; oats, feed, 4s. 7d. to 4s. 9d. per bushel; oats, Dun, 4s. lOd. to os. per bushel; chaff, oat sheaf, £9 per ton, sacks in; hay, meadow, £5 10s. per ton; flour, in sacks, £16 lOs.e per ton; Cowslip calf meal, 100's, £9 10s. per ton; oatmeal, 2o's, £22 per ton; butter, Is. Id. to Is. 2d. lb. pats; butter (prime bulk), Is. Id. to Is. 2d. per lb.; eggs, fresh, Is. lOd. to 2s. per do/,.; beeswax, Is. 9d. per lb.; bacon (all best factory), sides Is. 2d. per lb., rolls Is. 3d. per lb.* hams Is. 3d. per lb., shoulders Is. per lb.; cheese (factory), medium lOd. per lb.; linseed meal, Meggitt's, 100's, £12 10s. per ton; whole linseed, 235. per cwt.; rice meal, £8 to £8 10s. per ton; onions, £8 per ton; potatoes: White £5 to £7 per ton, Red £4 to £5 per ton; fowls, os. to 7s.'per pair; ducks, 6s. to 10s. per pair; turkeys (dead weight), Isto Is. 4d. per lb.; dressed pork: choice, 70's to 90's Bsd. per lb., 90's to 100's 8d. v per lb.; bacon pigs, choice, to Bd. per lb.; choppers (heavy), ss. to 6d. per lb. "BLOOMFIELD" SALE ON" MONDAY, The auctioneers request buyerß wanting good stock not to miBS this sale. There will be several seats in the firm's cars available for buyers after arrival of morning trains from Palmerston North and Waipukurau; but, to avoid disappointment, buyers are requested to inform the auctioneers not later than Saturday if they wish to be conveyed to the sale. The sheep to be sold are all heavy diapers and big-boned, strong sheep.