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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 May 1910, Page 1

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N.Z. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., LIIJ. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to " The Horowhenua Chronicle.") For the convenience of the farming community, "The Chronicle" is reprinting from clay to day, daring the autumn season, the 'flotations of prices current as issjad by the Farmers' Distributing Company :—■ Potatoes have advanced and the prico is still rising. • Onions are also firming. Vegetables are in steady demand excepting cabbage and cauliflower which are somewhat easier. A decided ch; ngo luis taken place with regard to cooking apples, which are now in excellent demand at much increased values. Wo can do with very much larger supplies of both pears and apples. The attention O'i poultry-keepers is directed to the fact that wo have a number of lines of cheap wheat quoting at from 3s Jd to 3,s 8d per bushel. Preserved eggs are easier with fairly large supply. We have a demand for 100 prime porkers per week at the best prices obtainable in this city. Oats are advancing, and we aro prepared to quote customers for their forward supplies. Wheat is firm. Pollard and brail show an advancing tendency. .Maize at present prices is well worth stocking up for winter supplies. Potatoes, prime Up-to-dates, £5 10s to £o 15s per ton. Onions, £4 to £4 10s per ton, Garlic, 3d per lb. Cabbage, ehoico, ss; ordinary, 2s to Is per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 10s; others, 4s (kl to 8s per sack. Green pens, Is per peck. Carrots, Hutt, lOd per dozen. Turnips, white, 8d dozen. Swedes, 2s to 2s (id per sack. Vegetable marrows, Is per sack. Pumpkins, '2s (kl to 3s sack. Pie melons, 3s per sack. Lettuce, choice, ss; fair. Is fid to 2s (Jd per case. Spinach, best, 2s fid per case. French Roans, 8s fid half-sack. Spring onions, fid don. bundles. Tomatoes, round, Is fid; Ilutt, 3s to Is (id; others, Is fid to 2s fid per half-case. Apples, cookers, large -Is to 5s 3d ; small, 2s fid to 3s fid case. Apples, dessert, well coloured, fis fid to 7s fid ;others -Is to 5s fid per case. Pears, dessert, fis to 8s fid; conkers, large, -Is (id to 5s fid ; small, 3s fid to Is per case. Grapes, best Hutt, Is 3d; best Nelson, Is per 11). flutter, separator, lOd; dairy, 9d to per lb. Cheese, best factory mediums. 5Vd to SUI per lb; loaf, Gad to 7d per lb. Dressed pork, 70's to DO's, Id to -Ud; 90's to lOO's. 4d: haconers. 3}-d to 4d ; choppers (heavy), 2r'l to 2j}d. Our weeklv perk sdes each, Thursday during winter. Edgs. 2s 5d to 2s fid : preserved, Is Id per dozen. Bacon, factorv sides 7d, rolls 7-^d; hams, 8!J<1 per lb. Honev, 4d to 4'd per lb. Beeswax, Is 4d to Is fid per lb. Fundus, keen demand at s.}d per lb. Walnuts, 5Jd. Tallow, tins, 24s ewt. Wool, sheepskins and hides, special sale on May 20, 1010. Poultry, cockerels. 5s fid for good birds: small. 3s to 3s fid; table roosters, 4s; table liens, 3s fid; small, 2s to 2s fid; ducks, large 5s to fis; small, 3s to 3s 6d per pair; tourkey gobblers, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Make. 3s fid to 3s 9d bushel. Wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel. Wheat, broken. 3s fid per bushel. Barley, feed. 3s 3d per bushel, flarlev. Cape seed. 3s fid bushel. Horse beans, 4s fid to 4s 9d bush. Partridge peas, 5s per bushel. Prussian fllue Peas, os fid per bushel. . _ Barley meal, special quality, £o 10s per to.n. Sharps, £5 15s per ton. Pollard. £5 10s per ton. Bran, £1 10s per ton. Chaff, oaten sheaf, £4 los to £•) 5s per ton. Hay, prime £3 15s to £4 10s per ton. Suerosine, £G 10s per ton. Straw, wheaten. £2 10s per ton. Straw, oaten, £2 7s fid per ton Linseed oil enke (genuine), £13 per ton. , , , Oats, feed, 2s Sd per bushel. Outs.' seed, Sparrowbills, Cartons, Duns. 2s Od ; Algerians, 3s 3d per bushel. , Oats, crushed, 2s lOd bushel Cocksfoot, formers' dressed, oil to '' Vocksfoot, farmers' dr>s;e'l, Gd er . ryegrass, 4s fid to 5s per bU ftn°lVan ryegrass, 4s 3d to 4s 9d Pe Lime" h crushed, agricultural, 20s per ton, delivered free at any railway station in truck loads. Superphosphates (best), £5 pel to ßasie Slag, bigh grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton.