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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1910, Page 1

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N.Z. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., LiU. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to "The Horowhenua Chronicle.") For the convenience of the farming community, "The Chronicle" is reprinting from day to day, dnriug the autumn season, the --notations of prices current as isdJ.Kl by the Farmers' Distributing Ccmpany :~ WELLINGTON, May 19. Potatoes have advanced considerably, and the market is very firm with small offerings. Indications ■are that tho prico will be higher. Onions are slightly higher, with plentiful .supplies. ' Vegetables, excepting marrows and swedes, in good demand; cabbage, however, selling at reduced rates. Cauliflower is in better supply, and values for all good linos well maintained. Apples and pears are in good demand for desserts, and medium for cooking. Grapes are in strong enquiry. Poultry is plentiful, but generally poor in quality and price. Groin of all kinds is advancing, maizo having risen Od per bushel during the week. Pollard and bran are very hard to procure, with higher values. Wo luivo some cheap lines of broken wheat, and shall be glad to have enquiries for samples. Eggs continno seareo for fresh, and preserved lines fair supply. Potatoes, primo Up-to-daltes, £'<- 10s per ton. Onions, £4 to £4 10s per ton. Garlic, 3d per lb. Cabbage, choice, 3s 6d; ordinary, 2s per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 8s 6d to 9s Od ; others, 4s 6d to 6s per sack. Groen peas, l.s per peck. Carrots, ITutt, 10d per dozen. Turnips, white. 6d dozen. Swe-des. 2s to 2s fid per park. Vegetable marrows. Is per sack. Pumpkins, 2.s fid to 3s sack. Pio melons. 3s per sack. LeWnre, choicn, ss; fair, Is fid to 2s fid per case. Spinach, best. 2s fid per ease. French brans, 7s Gd per half-sack. Spring onions, fid doz. bundles. Tomntoes. round, is Gd: Hutt, 2s fid to 1s others, Is fid to 2s 6d per half-case. Apples, cookers, largo 4s to 5s 3d : snnll. 2s fid to 3s fid'ons<\ Apples, dessert, woll coloured, fis fid to 7s fid yvth'cM"; ]s to 5s fid per ease. Pears, fis to Rs fid ; pookers. largo. fid to •"><; fid : sni.nl], 3s fid to 1s per case. Grapes, best Hutt. Ts 3d: best Xel son. Is lb. Butter, separator, 10d; dairy, 9d to Dkl per lb. Cheese, best fn< fory mediums, 51d to s}d per lb : loaf, fUd to 7d per lb. Dressed pork. 70's to 00's, Id to t',d : DO's to inn's. 4d : baeoMers, 3!d In td: cnonp-rs dor -,), 2d to 2]d. Our wp»klv Tiork s.-dos held e.neli Tlmrsd'fiy -during winter. E?cr.s. 2s 5d to 2s ()'} : preserved. Is Id per dozen. Bacon, factory sides 7d. rolls 7sd ; liifiin.s. 8:? d nor 11). Honey. 4d to 4-Jd per lb. Bppswhx. Is 4d in Is fid per lb. Fungus, keen demand at s?d per lb. Walnuts, sJfl. Tallow, tins, 24s cwt. Wool, sheepskins and bides, special salo on Juno 3, 1010. Poultry, cockerels. 5s Gd for good birds; small. 3s to 3s fid: table roosters, 4s; table bens, 3s fid; small, 2s to 2s fid: ducks, large- 5s to fis; small, 3s to 3s fid per pair; tourkey gobblers, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize,' 3s fid to 3s Hd bushel. Wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel. Wbent. broken, 3s 4d to 3s fid per bushel. Barley, feed, 3s 3d per bushel. Barley, Capo seed. 3s fid bushel. hforse beans. 4s fid to 4s Dd bush. Partridge peas. 5s per bushel. Prussian Blue Pens, ns Gd per bushel. Barley meal, special quality, £5 10s per ton. Rbnrps. £fi 5s per ton. Pnlbvd. £G per 'ton. Bran. CI 10s per ton. Chaff, on ten slionf, £5 to £5 10s per ton. Hay, prime C 3 15 S to £4 I.os per Straw, wlioflten. L"2 10s per ton. Straw, oaten. £2 7s fid per ton. Onts, seed. Spnrrowbills. Cartons, Duns. 2s lOd: Algerians, 3s 3d per bushel. Onts. feed. 2.s Rd io 2.T Od per bushel. , , , Oa.ts, crushed. 2s lid per bushel. Cocksfoot, mnrliine-drcssed, 5d40 fid per lb. . Linseed oil cake (genuine), 113 per ton. Snerosino, £fi 10s per ton. Cocksfoot, farmers , dr>s;ed, 6d per lb. _ Per. ryegrass, 4s fid to 5s per bushel. ... . n -, Italian ryegrass, 4s 3d to 4s 9d per bushel. , on Lime, crushed, agricultural, 20s per ton, delivered free at any rnilwav .station in truck loads. Superphosphates (best), £5 per ton. . __ Basic Sing, high' grnde, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton.