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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 September 1910, Page 1

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NZ. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., Lx^.

WEEKLY REPORT.

(Special to "The Horowheooa Chronicle.")

For the convenience of the farming community, "The Chronic!*" is reprinting from day to day, during the autumn season, the tions of prices current aa iuaed by the Farmers' Distributing Company :—<

WELLINGTON, September 15. Potatoes are very firm, with short supplies. Large importations from Australia are arriving each week. Local brown Spanish onions are coming to hand iri splendid condition , and meeting (ready sale. Vegetahles of all kinds are in much better supply. Large supplies of Tasmania n apples have eased the market, and locals are lower. Australian fruits this week meet with ready sale. Enquiries for eggs is I)risk, with small supplies. An oarly advance in price seems inevitable. Walnuts and poultry are both eagerly enquired for. The business for the year just closing shown an increase of £10,000. as n.aninst any previous year. This is highly satisfactory, and as the outlook indicates that an even greater increase will come out way this season, the directors have decided to double our floor space. Alterations are now being completed, and the additional space, which is lighted with direct overhead skylights, will make our sale rooms second to none in the city. Potatoes, prime, £8 to £9 per ton Potatoes, seed, specially selected. Canterbury up-to-dates, £7 10a to £8 per ton. Onions, Australian, £7 per ton. local, £6. Pickling onions, local, 7s owt. Garlic, 3d per lb. Cabbago, choice, 6s to 9s; ordinary. 3s to 4s (kl per sack; poor, 9d to Is fid per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 7s 6d to 9s; others, 3s to 4s 6d. Nelson green peas, 2s 6d peek. Carrots, Hutt, 6d doz., and 4s 3d per sack. Turnips, white, 6d doxen. Swedes. 2s to 2s 6d sack. Vegetable marrows, 2s 6d to 8s per sack. Pumpkins, 3s to 3s 6d sack. Pic melons, 3s t o4s per sack. Letuce, choice, 4s 6d; fair, 2s 6d to 3s per case. Spinach, best, 3s per case. Rhubarb, hothouse, 5d to 6d bdl. Spring onions, lOd doz bdls. Apnlps. cookers, large, 4s 6d to 7s Cd; small, 3s to 4s case. Appit>>, dessert, well coloured, 7s to 9s Od; others, 4s to 5g 6d per case. Passion fruit. 10s 6d. Pineapples, 10s to lis 6d. Mandarines, Gins, extra quality, \-U: hu«hc!s. 10s; packers, 9s. Oranacs, bushels, 9s; packers, 7s. Seville oranges, ss. Butter, separator, lOd; dairy, O'd per lb. Cheese, best factory mediums, '••Id per lb: loaf, 7d per lb. Dressed pork. 70's to 90'e sd: 90's to 100's 4}d; baconers, 4d to '!}d: choppers (heavy), 2Jd to 3Jd. tfggs. fresh; Hd dozen. factory sides 7d, rolls 8d; hams. o f j p Pr ]\j ITmiey, Id lb. Bepswnx, Is 4d to 1b 6d per lb. Fungus, keen demand at s}d per lb.

Walnuts, SJd lb. Wanted. Tallow, tins, 24s cwt. Wool, sheepskins and hides, special Nile on Sept. 23, 1910. Poultry: Cockerels, 6a 6d to 6s Od for good birds; small, 3s 6d; table roosters, 4s to ss; table hens, 3.s Gd; small, 2s 6d; ducks, large, 5s to 6s 6d ;small, 3s 6d per pair; turkey cobblers, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize. 3s 9d per bushel. Wheat, 3s 10d per bushel. Barley, feed, 3s 3d per bushel. Bailey, Cape seed, 3s 6d bushel.

Horse beans. 4s 9d bushel. neas, fis 6d per bushel. Pnw'an Hlue pens, 6s 6d bush. Marley meal, £(j per ton. £fi 1.5s per ton. P<>!la:-d. .en 10s per ton. Oat pollatd, 2s 6d sack of about 9l;lbs.

Bran. £4 10s to £4 15s per ton. Chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 to £5 10s per ton.

Oaten straw chaff, £3 15s ton. Tlay. prime, £3 10s to £4 10s per ton.

Straw, wheaten, £2 10s per ton. Straw, on fen. £2 7s 6d per ton. Oats, seed, Hparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d; Algerians, Ss 3d per bushel.

Oats, feed, 2s 4d to 2s 85 bushel. Oats, crushed 2s 8d per bushel. Cocoannt oil cake, 8s per cwt. Linseed oil cake (genuine), £13 per ton.

Sucrosine, £6 10s per ton. Lime, crushed, agricultural, 20s per ton, delivered free at any railway station in truck load*. Superphosphates (best), £5 per ton ; 5s less for ton or more.

Basic Slag, high grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton.