WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 272, 6 August 1918, Page 8

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

. Messrs. Laery and Company, i Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale 'prices as follow »—Fowl- wheat,' prime, 7s. to 7s. 2d. per bushel, sacks extra; Cape barley, good, 6s. 2d. to Gs, 3d. per bushel;' feed barley, 6s. 9d.'to ss. lid. per bushel; maize, crushed, 7s. Gd. per bushel; oats, crushed, 53. 9d. to 55.10 d. per bushel; oats, feed, Algerians, to ss, sd.\ per bushel) oats,-feed,' Gartons, ss. 7d. to 53. Bd. per bushel; oats, Dun, ss. lOd. to 6s. 6d. per bushel; oats, seed, machine dressed and dipped, 6s. 2d. per bushel; chaff, (tatensheaf; good bright heavy, .Sll per ton; medium quality, .£9 10s. to .510 per ton,-all'sacks in; flour,-in sacks, £17 per ton;oatmeal, 25's, £26 103, per ton; .poultry,' and pigmeal; £9 2s. Gd. per ton; , rice pollard, .£8 15s. per ton; potatoes, Southern table, white, ,£9 15s. to <210; Dakota red, =£10 ss. to ,£lO 10s. per ton, sacks in; potatoes, seed, Southern 53.; Gamekeepers, i 8; North Island Northern Stars and Game-, keepers,' £5 per ton, sacks in; fowls, 6s. ed. to 7s. Gd. per pair; ducks, Bs. Gd. to 12s. per pair; geese, 10s. to 12s. per pair; turkeys, 9(1. to is. Id. per lb.; buV ter, farmers' separator and dairy bulk end pound pats, Is. 3d. to Is. 4ib. lb.; eggs, fresh, crates 2s. 2d., cases 2s. to 2s. Id. dozen; dressed nork, keen demand, choice, 70's to 90's, B{-d. to 9d., 90's to 110's 8(1. to Sid.;.bacon pigs, 7d. to Bd.; choppors, sd. to fid. per lb; beeswax, 2s. to 2s. Gd. per lb; bacon, best factory, sides Is. 2(1., rolls Is. 3d., hams Is. 3d. per lb.; molasse3, in scwt. casks, iOs. each, casks included; salt, Lochiel, coarse, £li per ton; onions, Victorian, 28s. cwt. -.

'A' Southland journal reooi'ts that two rosidents recently rend that, instead of scalding pigs after killing, the hair was more easilv, removed by sprinkling patrol over it and nutting a match to it. They decided to fry the experiment. They hoisted tho porker to a beam, applied tho petrol, then fhe Incifcr. In an instant the "hair wns off as clean as the sharnest razor removes the down olf a youth's face, and 110 fumes remained.