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Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 April 1911, Page 1

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» ... n.z. farmers' co-operative distributing co., . . webkl7"rbport. (Special to "The Horowhanea Chronicle.") For the convenience of the farming community, " The Chronicle " ia reprinting from day to day, daring the autumn season, the quotations of prices current as taroed by the Farmers' Distributing Company :—■ Wellington, April 13. Potatoes are still firm for _ firstclass lines. Considerable prejudice exists here against any tnut fair sizei dtiibers;- Onions are firmer. Vegetables are all in good demand, excepting marrows and swedes, there being a specially good , enquiry for lettuce and cauliflower of good quality. Apples and pears meet with good enquiry. Eggs have taken a considerable advance, and the demand isi keen. Poultry is in fair demand, but the expected increase in values for' Easter trade .has not been appreciably noticeable. Oats are very firm, with small offerings. Pollard lias advanced 10s per ton in Australia. Stocks of oat pollard are now exhausted, and we shall not be able to execute any more orders for this line. Potatoes, prime, £5 to £5 10s per ton. Onions, Globes, £4 10s per ton. Cabbage, 2s to 2s 6cl per sack. Green peas, Hutt, Is peck. French beans, Id per lb. Carrote, 2s 6d sack. Swedes, Is 6d sack. Cauliflower, 6s to 7s per sack. Marrows, Iβ per sack. Pumpkins, Ss to Sβ 6d per sack. Cape Gooseberries, BJd per lb. Turnips, white, 4d to 5d dosew. Lettuce, 3s per case. Rhubarb, Jls 6d to 2s per dozen. Blackberries, 2}d per lb. Cucumbers, 3s (3d £-case. Cape gooseberries, 5d per lb. Passions, N.Z., 5s to 5s 6d i-caee. Peaches, 2s to 4s half-case. Dessert apples, 5s 6d to 8s case. Cooking apples, 4s to 4s 6d case. Tomatoes, 2e to 4s per 1-case. Pears, dessert, 4s to 5s per halfease; cookers, Sβ to 6s per case. Grapes, lid per lb. - Quinces, 3s fid to 4s per case. Butter, separator, 9id to IOd; dairy, 9d to 9£d per lb. Cheese, best factory mediums, s?d per lb; loaf 7d per lb. Dressed pork, 70's to 90's 4|d to 4Jd; 90's to 100's, 4d; baconers, 3fd; choppers (heary) 2sd. Eggs, fresh', Is 8d dozen. Bacon, factory sides 7d, rolls 9d; hams 9}d per lb. Honey, SJd per lb. Slow of sale. Beeswax, Is 6d per lb. Fungus, 4\d per lb. Walnuts, 6d to 7d per lb. Tallow, ties, 25s cwt. Poultry, cockerels, 5s 6d for good birds; table roosters, ss: table hens, Ss 6d; dncke. 5s per pair; turkey gobblers. 9d_to lOd per lb; hens, Bd< per Ib live weight. Maize, 3s 6d per bushel. "Wheat. 4s per bushel. 'Barley (feed), 3s 3d bushel. Barley, Cape 3s 10(3 per bushel. Dun peas. 4s per bushel. Pollard, £7 5s per ton. £7 in ,!ots. Oat pollard, stocks exhausted. Bran £5 10s per ton. Molassrs fodder, £4 15s per ton. Chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 10s ton. Hay, prime- SA to SA 15s ton. Straw, wheaten, £2 15s per ton. Oats, seed, Spanowbills, Gartons, Duns. Btorm King, Black Tartars, 3s 3d ; Algerians, Sβ 6d bushel. J Oats, A grade, 8s per bushel. Oats, crushed, 3s Sα bnehel. Coco a nut oil cake, 8s 6d cwt. I Linseed oil cake (genuine), £J8 j per ton. ! Sucrosine, £6 10b per ton. Lime, crnshed, agricultural, JOe per ton, delivered free at any railway station in truck loade. Bnperphosphatee (best), £5 per ton; Bβ !sBB for ton or more. Basic slag, high grade, 20 per cent £4 10s per ton.