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6 N Z. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., Lx . WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to "Ihe Horowb<mna Chronicle.") For the convenience of the farming community, "The Chronicle is reprinting from day to day, oaring the autumn season, the t;notations of prices current aa i&nad r.y the Farmers' Distributing C» n» pany Potatoes have boen_ coming _to hand in large quantities ana pnees are slightly" weaker than_ when we last reported. The quality is still o-ond. Wo strongl yadv'ise clients not- to send in small grades of potar toes in the present state of the market. Australian onions are now in excellent conidltion, and slightly lower than last week. Apricots have been cornin gin freely, and for anything hut choice lines values havee been low. Peache sare in much better demand, and values have risen considerably. Raspberries are free]y enquired for, aiul much larger supplies are needed. are declining rapidly in values; as indicate din our last report, rfc is evident that a considerable supply will shortlv be on the market. Eggs are weaker, with a larger supply coming to hand. Pollard is in short supply and exceedingly high in price, in fact Australia nimportations are solelv relied upon, local mills no}t vet having re-opened since the holidays. Excellent samples of new chaff .ire com in 2 to hand, and we ex. pecfc the quality this season to be uniformly good. Potatoes, prime. £5 to £6 per ton Onions, Australian Globes, £6 10s per ton. Cabbage, 2s to 3s per sack. Cauliflower, 10s per sack. Green Peas, Hut. 8d per peck. French Beans, Id per lb. Carrots, Hntt, 6d per doz. Turnips, "White. 4d to 5d doz. Lettuce, choice, 2s per ease. Soring Onions, 4d to 6d doz. bdls. Rhubarb, Is to Is 6d doz. Gooseberries, dessert, rough skin, 3s to 4s per i case. Strawberries. Is 3d to Is 6d per lb Passion Fruit, 7s to 8s 6d per i case. Cherries. 9s to 10s 6d i case. Cucumbers, Is to Is 6d per doz. Apricots, 3s to 4s i case. Peaches, 3s to 5s 6d i case. Plums, Ogans, 2s: Bnrbanks, 2s H'l to 3s; Prunes, 3s i case. 1 Cooking Apples, Is 6d to 2s 6d per J case. Dessert Apples, 3s to 3s 6d per i ca^e. Black Curranifs. 7s 6d i case. Tomatoes. Hutt, 4s 6d to 5s 6d; Nelson 3s 6d to 4s 6d £ case. Raspberries, in buckets, 5s 6d to Cs each. Grapes, Is 3d to Is 6d per lb. Butter, separator. Bid bulk: 9d to 9?>d pats; dairy, 8d to 9d -per lb. Cheese, best fnetorv mediums, fid ner lb: lonf 7d per lb. Dressed Pork, 70's to 90's 4d to U: 00's to 100's 3? c ; baconers, 3id; ehonpers (heavy) 2d to 2|d. Eggs. fresh Is Id per doz. Bacon, factory sides 7d, rolls 9d: hams 9'd per 11). Honey, 3id per l!b. Slow of sale. Beeswax, Is 6d per lb. Fungus ,4id to 5d per lb. Walnuts, 6d per lb. Tallow, tins, 28s cwt. Wool, next sale 7th February. Sheep Skins and apecial sale on IStii January, 1911. Poultry, cockrels, 5s 6d for good birds, small 3s; table roosters, ss; table hens, 3s 6d to 4s; clucks, 4s 6d I to 6s 6d per pair. Turkey gobblers Is per lb; hens 10 per lb live weight Maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d per bushel. Sharps, £7 ,5s per ton. "Wheat, 4s per busnel. Barley, feed, 3s per bus. Barley, Cape, 3s 6d per bus. Dun Peas, 4s 6d per bus. Barley Meal, £6 uer ton. Sharps, £7 5s per ton. Pollard, £7 5s per ton Oat pollaid, 2s (3d sack of about i)olbs. Bran, £5 15s per ton. Molasses Fodder, £5 per ton. Chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 sa; second quality £4 to £4 10s per ton. Hay, prime, £3 to £4 per ton. Straw, wheaten, £2 10s per ton. Straw, oaten, £2 10s per ton. Oats, seed, Sparaowbills, Gartons, Duns, Stoirm King, Black Tartars, 3s; Algerians , Ss 3d per bushel. Oats, feed, 2s lOd; A grade 3s per bushel. Oats, crushed, 3s bushel. -. Cocoon ut oil cake, 8s per cwt. Sucrosine, £6 10s per ton. Linseed oil cake (genuine), £13 per ton.

Sucrosine, £6 IDs per ton. Lime, crushed, agricultural, 2Us per ton, delivered free at any railway station in truck loads. Superphosphates (best), £5 per ton; 5s less for ton or more. Basic Slag, high grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton. Useful References FOR TRAVELLERS AND TAY-AT-HOME PEOPLE. Steamers leave Wellington for Christchurch practically every evening in the week. Afternoon trams from Levin connect with them. There are frequent trips to ports further south, such as Punedinand The Bluff. Steamers leave Wellington for Sydney direct on Friday of every week, and anyone who finds that day inconvenient may set to Sydney from Auckland, whence a steamer leaves every Monday, nfter having voyaged up from Wellington via Napier and Gisborne. The inward steamers from Sydney to Wellington go on to southern ports, and from The Bin IT they steam up to Melbourne and later on to Sydney. As a means of enabling the render of a letter addressed to a pi nee abroad to prepay the postage on a reply, tli° Department issues reply coupons on payment of n fee of Id. These coupons may be exchanged for a postage stamp of the value of 2id in any country adopts the scheme. New Zealand's population, including that of the Cook Islands and other dependences, is now well ever one million. In June, 1908, the estimated population of London was 4,795.757. The rateable value of property in England and Wales has risen each year since 1874. The figures nrf as follows: — In 1874, Tn 1888, £145.527,944. Tn 1894, £161,139,575. Tn 1908. £212. 757, 450. The total rateable value in 1874 represents an average of £4 17s fid per head of population, while in 1908 the average was £0 per head. People are puzzled to know what is meant by occasional references, in discussions on naval armaments, to the German Naval Law. The German Navy Law of 1907 provides for the laying down in each year from 1908 to 1911 of three battleships and o*o armoured cruiser; also in each year from 1912 to 1917 of one battleship and one armoured cruiser: also in each year from 1908 to 1917 of two protected . cruisers and one destroyer. New Zealand's public debt at 51st March, 1910, amounted to £70,938534, the increase for the_ twelve months immediately preceding having been £4.484.657. Of this aiwount £1,200,000 was raised by way of public works, £1,048,800 nnder the Advances to Settlers and Workers Act, and £1.000.000 under the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Purchase Act. £250,000 was raised under the Loans to Local Bodies Act, and £211,495 under the, for Settlements Act. _ Great Britain's National Debt, on 31st March, 1909, stood at £754,121309, being a decrease of £5.704,742 bv comparison with the figures^for the year immediately precednng. Against this were set down assets totalling £37,160.000, the principal item being the estimated market value of the Suez Canal shares owned by Great Britain (£32.000.000^ AGE OF HORSES AS BY THEIR TEETH. A foail of six months has sax grinders in each jaw, three on each side; also six nippers of front teeth, with a cavity in each. At the age of one year, he loses the first milk grinders above and below, and front teeth have their cavities filled np alike to teeth of horses of eight years of age. At age of two and a half' to three years, he casts his two front uppers, and in a short time after the two next. At age of fonr years, grinders are six upon each side, and a.t about four and a-half his nippers a.re all permanent ones, by the replacing of remaining two corner teeth; tushes then appear, and he i° r.n longer a colt Ait a Tiorse has tushes, and there is a black-coloured cavity in centre of all his lower nippers. At six this black cavity is obliterated in the two front lower nippers. At seven the cavities of the next two are filled np and tushes blunted : and at eight the cavities, of -ihe two comer teeth are filled np. Horse may now be said to be aged. Cavities in nippers of _ upper jaw are not obliterated until the horse is about ten years Old, after which tushes become Tound,- and nippers project and change their surface.