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Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 May 1910, Page 1

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N.Z. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., 1 uD.

WEEKLY REPORT,

(Special to " The Horowhenua

Chronicle.")

For the convenience of the fanning community, "The Chronicle" is reprinting from day to day, daring the autumn season, tlio •..iiotat.ions of prices current as issj.id by the Fanners' Distributing C'cnipany WELLINGTON, May 5. The market for prime lines of potatoes is much firmer, and the market is barely supplied. No change to report in onions. Vegetables of all kinds are in short supply, with keen demand. Wo are pleased to report a considerable improvement in values of cooking apples, to-day's sales realising up to 4s 3d for good lines. Dessert apples aro also firmer, as also pears. Grapes continue in excellent demand at fair prices. Eggs are very scarce, and we now recommend clients to send in preserved lines in any quantity. We have a demand for 100 prime porkers per week at the best prices obtainable in this city. Oats aro advancing, and wo are prepared to quote customers for their forward supplies. Wheat, is firm. Pollard and bran show an advancing tendency. Maize at present prices is well worth stocking up for winter supplies. We are at the present time doing a very large trado in horse and cow covers, which we supply at from 20s to 235, made of the best material and by the best workmanship. The 19 per cent, basic slag which wo have to offer our clients is of the highest grade, and we should be glad to make special quotations for quantities, as we have concluded a purchase 011 very advantageous terms. Potatoes, prime Up-to-dates, £5 10s to £5 15s ; others, £3 to £4 10s per ton. Onions, £4 to £4 10s per ton. Garlic, 3d per lb. Cabbage, choice, 5s to fis fid ; ordinary, 2s Gd to 4s per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 10s; others, 5s fid to 8s per sack. Green peas, 8d per pock. Carrots, Hutt, 10c! per dozen. Turnips, 8d dozen. Swedes, 2s to 2s 9d per sack. Vegetable marrows, 2s fid per sack. Pumpkins, 3.s sack. Pio melons, 3s to 4s per sack. Lottuoe, choice, 3s fid ; fair, fid to Is fid per case. Spinach, best. 2s to 2s fid per case. French Beans. 8s Gd half-sack. Spring onions, 4d dozen bundles. Tomatoes, round, 4s fid to fis: Hutt, 3s to 4s fid: others, Is Gd to 2s Gd per half-ca.se. Apples, cookers, lnr'-e, 3s to 4s fid : small. 2s fid case. Market glutted. Apples, dessert, well coloured, 5s fid to fis Gd : others. 3s fid to 4s per case. Pears, dessert, fis to 7s fid : cookers, large, 4s fid: small. 3s (171 to Is per case. "Rhubarb. 2s G<l dnz bundles. Grapes, best Hutt. Is 3d; best Nelson, Is per lb. Radish. Id dozen bundles Butter, separator. Ifld; dairy, 9d to D'd per lb. Oboese. best factorv mediums. s',d to 5Jd per lb: loaf, GUI to 7d per lb. Dressed pork, 70's to 90's, Id to 4{d: 90's to 100's. Id; baeoners, 31, d to Id: choppers (heavy). 2d to 2]d. Our weeklv pork sales held ea'-b Thursday during winter. Eggs, 2s 4d to 2s 5d : preserve, Is 5d per doz. Scarce. Bacon, factorv sides 7d, rolls 7}d ; hams, B:]d per lb. Honey, 4d to 4Jd per lb. Beeswax, Is 4d to Is Gd per lb. Fungus, keen demand at 5Jd per lb. Walnuts, s|d.

Tallow, tins, 24s cwt. Wool, sheepskins and lridos, sperm 1 sale on May 13, 1910. Poultry, cockerels. 5s fid for good birds: small. 3s to 3s 0<1; table roosters, 'Is; table lions, 3s fid; small, 2s to 2s fid : ducks, large 5s to fis; small, 3s to 3s Gd per pair; tourkey gobblers, Od per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize, 3s 0d to 3s 9d bushel. Wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel. Barley, feed. 3s 3d per bushel. Barley, Capo seed, 3s (kl bushel. Horse beans. 4s fid to 4s 9d bush. Partridge peas, 4s fid to 5s per bushel. Prussian Blue Peas, os fid per bushel. , Barley meal, special quality, £0 10s per ton. Sharps, £5 15s per ton. Pollard. €5 10s per ton. Bran, £4 10s per ton. Chaff, oaten sheaf, Ct 15s to £5 5s per ton. Hay, prime £3 15s to £4 10s per ton. Sucrosine, £fi 10s per ton. Straw, whwiten. C 2 10s per ton. Straw, oaten, £2 7s fid per ton. Linseed oil cake (genuine), £13 per ton. _, Oats, feed, 2s 7d to 2s 8d per bushel. , Oats. sfwl, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d ; Algerians, 3s. Oats, crushed, 2s 9d bushel. Cocksfoot, machine dressed, tjd to 7d per lb. , Cocksfoot, farmers' dr>s?ed, Gd Per. ryegrass, 4s fid to 5s per Italian ryegrass, 4s 3d to 4s 9d I 'crushed, agricultural, 20s per ton. delivered free at any railway station in truck loads. Superphosphates (best), £5 per Slag, high grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton.