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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 August 1910, Page 1

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N.Z. - FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., LnJ. 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 quotations of prices current aa i&ued ty tho Farmers' Distributing Company :— WELLINGTON, August 19. Potatoes firmer in mice, and an early rise in both tables- and .seeds is probable. Canteaiburygrown seed up-to-dates'" are coming to hand in excellent order, and) we are doing a large trade in tihem just now. 'llie market is being largely supplied with Melbourne onions, bui, v lo«il grown Brown Spanish are now coming in. Cabbage and cauliflower are slightly easier, but the de mand continues very satisfactory. Table carrots are slow of sale. Lettuce is in good enquiry at high values. Apples continue to sell well, and we could do with much lagrer supplies. As antciipated last week, eggs have further declined, and flic supply is very large. Fungus would bring big hprices if it arrived shortly. Maize has risen in price, but other grains show 110 alteration. Potatoes, Prime Up-to-datea, £7 10s to £8 per ton. Potatoes, seed, specially selected. Up-to-date, £7 10s to £8 per tonOp ions, Australian, £7 per ton. Pickling onions, local, 7s 6d cwt. Garlic, 3d per 10. Cabbage, choice, 5s 6d to 9s 6d; oul 1 nary, 3s to 4s 6d per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 10s to 12s 6d ; others, 3s to 7s Gtl per sack. Carrots, Hutt, Go doz, and 3s pel sack. Turnips, white, 6d dozen. Sewedes, 2s Cd to 3s per sack. Vegetable marrows, 2s 6d to 3s per Pumpkins, 3s to 4s sack. Pio melons, 3s t o4s per sack. Lettuce, choice, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; fair, 2s 6d to 3s per case. Spinach, best 3s 6d to 5s case. Spring onions, lOd doz bdls. Apples, cookers, large, 4s 6d to 8s; small, 3s to -Is case. Apples, dessert, well coloured, 7s to 9s f>d; others, 4s to 5s 6d per case. Pears, dessert, 10s to 15s 6d; cookers, large, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; | "mall, 3s Crl to 4s per case. Butter, separator, lOd; dairy, 0r! per lb. Cheese, best factory mediums, 6d per lb; loaf, 7d per lb. Dressed port, 70's to 90's, sd; 90'& to 100's, 4Jd; baconers, 4s to 4jd; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3id. Eggs, fircs.li, Is dozen. Bacon, factory sides 7d, rolls 7Jd; bams, 9d per lb. Honey, 4d to 4id per lb. Beeswax, Is 4d to Is 6d per lb. Fungus, keen demand at sid per lb. Walnuts, 5d to 5Jd per lb. Tallow, tins, 2.3s cwt. Wool, sheepskins and bides, special sale on August 26th, 1910. Poultry: Cockerels, 5s 6d to 6s 6d for good birds; small, 3s 6d; table roosters, 'Is to ss; table hens, 3s 6rl: small, 2s 6d; ducks, large, 5s to 6 s 6d :small. 3s 6d per-pair; tur : key gobblers, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb livo weight. Maize, 3s Dd per bushel. Wheat. 3s 9d to 4s per biwhel. Barley, feed, 3s 3d per bushel. Barley. Cape seed, 3s 6d bushol. TTorse beans. 4s 9d bushel. Partridge peas, 4s 3d to 5s pen bushel. Prussian Blue peas, 5s 6d per bushel. Barley meal. £6 per ton. Pollard. £6 10s to £6 15s per tonOat pollard 2s 6d sack of about noins. Bran. £4 10s to £4 15s per ton. Chaff, oaten sheaf ,£5 10s to £515t per ton. ' Oaten straw chaff, £3 15s ton. Hav, prime £3 15s to £5 per ton. Straw, wheaten. £2 10s per ton. Straw, oaten. £2 7s 6d per ton. Oats, seed, Srvarrowbills. Gartons. Duns, 2s 9d; Algerians, 3s 3d poi bushel. Oats, feed 2s 4d to 2s 8d bushel. Oats, crushed 2s 8d pec bushel Oo"oanut oil cake, 8s per cwt. Linseed oil cake (genuine), £1? per ton. Sucrosine, £6 10s per ton. Lime, crushed, agricultural, 20? ner ton, delivered free at any rail war station in truck loads. Superphosphates (best), £5 per ton. Basie Slag, high grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton.