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Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 June 1910, Page 1

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n.z. farmers' co-operative distributing co., lid. weekly"report. (Special to " The Horowhenua Chronicle.") For the convenience of the farming community, "The Chronicle" , is reprinting from day to day, daring the autumn season, the tions of prices current as issjtid by the Farmers' Distributing Ccmpany :— WELLINGTON, June IG. As anticipated in our previous report, the potato market is now weakening, ami there is <i prospect of a sharp fall in values. Australian supplies are mv reaching here, and. will assist to 'bring this about. We advise our clients requiring seed to hold off for a few weeks, pending, developments. Onions are unchanged. Of vegetables, cabbage,, turnips, lettuce and spinach are all. in excellent demand, while marrows, have improved, and pumpkins and. carrots show easier values. We recommend shipments of pie melons. Hothouse tomatoes are still in exceptionally keen , demand. Dessert apples advanced considerably, as also have all varieties of cookers, oxcept Epps , seedling, which show a slight advance only. Pears are i ngreat demand, as also grapes. Poultry is ivow showing an , advance, and thet market displays a much better tone. Eggs have weakened, slightly, but are still in good demand. Chaff lias weakened in sympathy with the decline- in oafs, and very li'ttle business is bixing done. Potatoes, Prime Up-to-dates, £7 to £7 10s per ton. Potatoes, seed, specially selected. Canterbury Up to-dates, £8 per ton. Onions, £4 to £4 10s per ton. Garlic, 3d per lh. Cabbage, choice, 5s to 5s fid; ordinary, Is to 2s per sack. Cauliflowers, choice, (is (id; others, 3s to 4s 6d. Carrots, Hutt, (id dozen. Turnips, white. Gd dozen. Swedes, Is to Is (id sack. Market glutted. Vegetable marrows, Is to 2s per sack. Pumpkins, 2s G dfc o4s sack. Pie melons, 3s por sack. Lettuce, choice, Gs to 7s Gd; fair, 2s (3d to 4s case. Spinach-, best, 3s to 3s 6d per case. French beans, B.s Gd per |-case. Spring onions, 8d doz. bdls. Tomatoes, hothouse, 14s Gd por icase. Apples, cookers, large-, 4s to ss; snyill, 2s in 3s fid case. Apples, dessert, well coloured, 7s to 9s Grl; others, 4s to 5s Gd por case. Pears, dessert. Ifls to 15s P>d: cookers, lni-rre, 4s Gd to 5s Gd; smnll, 3s Grl to 4s pw on.se. Grapes, best Hutt, Is Gd; besv Nelson, Is 3d per lb. Butter. .sena<raitor, 10d; dnirv OH \)er lb. Cheese, best factory mediums, ' 5Jd to s}d per lb; loaf, 6Jd to 7d per lb. Dressed pork, 70's to 90's 4|d • no's to lnO's 4J<l: bnconers, 4d; choppers (heavy) 2d to 2;jd. Our weekly pork sales held each Thursday during winter. Excellent demand. E.as;s, frosfi, Is 8d; preserved, Is 2d dozen. Bacon, factorv sides 7d, rolls 7Jd: liams, 8fJ(l per lh. Honey, 4d to per lb. Beeswax, Is 4d to Is 6d per lb. Fungus, keen demand at 5Jd p-sr lb. Wnlmits. 5d do 5-H per lb. Tallow, tins, 22s cwt. Won!, sheppskins and bides, special pale on Julv Ist, 1910. Poultry: Cockerels, 5s Gd to Gs Gd for pood birds; small, 3s Gd : table roosters. 4s to 5.5: table hens. 3s fid: small, 2s Gd: ducks, large, 5s to fis Gd ' rsmall. 3s Gd per pair; turkey gobblers. Od per lb; liens, 8d per lb live weiiM. Maize, 3s Gd to 3s Od per bushel. Wlwit. 3s 9d to 4s ppir biifilie.l. Client, seennds, 3s C>d per bush. Barley, feed, 3s 3d per bushel. Barley. Cnpe seed. 3s fid bushel. Horse beans, 4s Gd to 4s 9d bush. Partridge peas, 5s per bushel. Prussinn Blue Pens, os 6d per bil'hpl. Barley meal, special quality, £5 10s per ton. Sharps, £G 10s por ton. Bran. C 4 10s Tier ton. Clrnff, oaten sheaf, £5 to £5 15s por ton. Hay, prime £3 15s to £410s per ton. Straw, wlieaten, £2 7s Gd per ton. Strniw, oaten, £2 5s per ton. Oats. seed. Srmrrowbills. Gnrtons. Duns, 2s 9d; 'Algorians, 3s 3d poi bushel. Oats, feed, 2s fid t o2s 8d bushel. Ont<?. crushed, 2s lid per bushel. Machine dressed cocksfoot, CJd t«n 7d r>er lb. Farmers' dressed cocksfoot, 5d to Gd per lb. Linseed oil cake (genuine), £13 npr ton Sucrosine, £G 10s per torn. Cocksfoot, farmers' droned, Bd lb. Per. ryegrass, 4s 6d to 5s per bushel. Italian rvegrciss, 4s 3d to 4s 9d nor bushel. Lime, crushed, asriniliiiral, 20<; ner ton. delivered free nt any rniltvnv station in truck loads. Superphosphates (best), £5 per ton. Basic Sing, high grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton.