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N.Z. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., LiiJ. weeklFreport. (Special to "The Horowhonua Chronicle.") For the convenience of the farming community, "The Chronicle" is reprinting from day to day, daring the autumn season, tho '.;<iota~ tions of prices current as isdi.xl Ly the Farmers' Distributing Ctmpany :— WELLINGTON, August 4. Potatoes are still in short supply, prices being at present very firm. Seed potatoes are also rather scarce, arid we advise early enquiries. All cooking varieties of apples are in excellent demand, Tasmanian French Crabs being worth up to 8s per bushel. Vegetables are in excellent demand. All lines, excepting table carrots, meet with a iready sale. C.'ibbajre realised as much as 9s per sack this week. Eggs are still selling freely at Is 6d, and preserved lines are n ow worth Is Id. Fungus, walnuts, apd beeswax wanted in any auantities. Grain shows 710 alteration. 10s to £8 per ton. Potatoes, Prime Up-to-dates, £7 10s to £8 per tonPotatoes, sped, specially selected. Up-to-date, £7 10s to £8 per tonOnions, Australian, £7 per ton. Pickling opions, 8s cwt. frnrlie. 3d per lb. Cabbage, choice, 5s 6d to 9s; ordinary. 3s to 4s 6d per sack. Cauliflowers, choice, 10s to 15s; others, 3s to 7s 6d per sack. Carrots, Hutt, 0d dozenTurnips, white, 6cl dozen. Swedes. 2s 6d per sack. Vegetable marrows, 2s 6d per sack. Pumpkins. 2s G fit o4s sack. Pie melons. 3s t o4s per sack. Lettuce. clioiVo, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; Lair. 2s fid to 3s per cise. Spinach, host 3s 6d to 5a case. Spring onions, 8d doz bdls. Apples, cookers, large, 4s 6d to 7s Gd: small, 3s to 4.s case. Apples.' dessert, well coloured, 7s +o 9s Gel; others, 4s to 5s 6d por en Fs. Pp-ars, dessert. 10s to fid: r-ookors. lnr<_'e, 4s M to 5s 6d; sninll, 3,s G r l t-o 4s per on.se. Butter, separator, 10d; dkiiry, nV !)«r Ib.

lip?t factory mediums, firl vor lb: lonf, 7d per lb. Drosso'i rinrk. 70's to 90's, 4?d; no's to inO'.s, 4kl: 4Jd: olionpors (lip.ivy) to SJd. Ee !, s. fresh Is fid, preserved Is por rinzen. Bnpon. [nr{nry sides 7d, rolls 7Jd: hnnis, Dd nnr lb. Tlonoy. 4d to 4Jd per lb. T}ppctt'n\". Is 4'l to Is 6d pnr lh. Fundus, keen demand at 5Jd por lb. Wr-lnuts. 5(1 fo H\i{ per lb. Tnllnw. tins. 23s cwt. "Wool, nnd hides, specbl snip on Aiurnst 12, 1910. Poultry: Cockerels, 5s 6d to fis H'l for Ecoorl l>irds; small. 3s 6cl: f-nlile roosters. 4s to ?>s: table hens. 3s (VI: smnll. ?s Rd : ducks, Inrge. fr *-o (is M :siTinll. 3s 6<l n«r pnir; tnrkoy nrnhhlera. 0d por lh; hens, Sri nor lb live wrM?M. 3s Rr| per bushel. 3s Pri +o 4s nw Inisl^l. f ;nr.on-],s. 3s 4rl to 3s Gd per bushel. ■R-irlnV. f"P-l. 3<! 3'l pn T . h<}vh P l. Bnri-v. rV< T v» s»wl. '.3a Rd ir f >v"i< I..>npQ. f<; W In ,U Or] bllR 1 ) p., ~f..;,]„,> p.^ Si ,-j s .Sfl to 5s pei T'l-'i.criiin Blue pw*. fis fid p^i ■P.,,.1 (M - , On po- ton. Tr-vilm-.-l. or, 10- rn Ins por ton V,,..,., Oi IPj, f n PJ 1P S p f ." fnn oriten shoflf, .€5 to £5 10? r> ,,,, ton. Oten strnw ol in ff £3 Ifa ton. TTnv, prime £3 15s U £5 par lon. S+ra.w, when ton. fi 10s per t<on. Strnw. o.'Hen. £2 7s M ppr ton. Ont.= . Ronrrnwbills. Onr+ons. T)<.via. 2s Dfl; Algerians, 3s 3d pei n-, f<,. f o «'1 9.c 4A +/, o.q Rd bushel. 0..f.t! pvndip/l Ocj fVI B"r hn?hel Ar:H'li ;,i o dressed cocksfoot, RJd $<* 7 A nor lb. Fnnrors' dressed cocksfoot, 5d tr V n-r lb. P^>- I< T'iiiit. oil enke, Ks per cwt. Lms'V'd oil enke feenuino), £13 nor fofi Snerosine. Gfi 10s +oti. Tiime. pmsbed. nirnVnltural, 20c wr ton. fleliVorerl frep nt any rail,Vn V ptntion in truck londs. Superphosphates (best), £5 por to". Bnsi" S'"fT, TiiVh crade, 19 per -ert, £1 10s p"r ton.