Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 September 1912, Page 1

Commercial.

■„ y NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATING DISTRIBUTING ' • 00., LTD. wmlyTTepobt. . (Special to the Horowhcnua Chronicle). WELLINGTON, Sept.- 20. ! The potato maTket ; ;-]ias a declining tendency, and supplies Indi«atione are that-the,,;,new Auckland crop will be ready'this 6eason. During tie week we' disposed of a large shipment .of Californian onions,.the quality of which is excellent". No &iiher supplies are du"e for about throe weeks. Eggs are unchanged. Honey of excellent quality is offering freely. Butter is wanted in larger quantities. Cheese ia very firm. Porkers slow, a weakening in Talues as may now be expected as the spring supply becomes available. Chaff and grain is quiet. Apples in good demand, particularly cookers. Butt rhubarb is now reaching tho market in large supplies. We yesterday sold the first line of Nelson groen peas to reach the markot this season, and they realised the exceptinoally !high price of 4s 6d to 4s 7d per peck. Potatoes.—Prime, £8 per ton. Potatoes, seed.—Up-to-dates, £6 10s; Northern Star, £6 10s; Gamekeepers, £9 10s per ton. Onions.—£lß per ton. Cabbage—Choice 6s to 8s per sack. Carrots.—3s to 4s per sack. Cauliflower.—Oioico, 8s 6d to 12s Gd per sack. Nelson green peaa.—4s 6d to 4s 7d per sack. Parsnips.—3s per sack. Swedes.—2s per cwt. Rhubarb.—4s to 5s per dozen. Turnips.—White, 2s to 2s 6d per sack. Lettuce.— 6s to 8s per sack. Pumpkins.—lob to 14s 6d per pack Apples.—Cooking, Choice, 6s to 7s per caee. Apples.—Dessert, 6s to 9s per case Cheese.*—Best factory modiums, 7d; loaf, 7.Jd to 8d per If. Mandarines.—9s to 11s. Sydney oranges.—los to 13s. Passions.—Be to 9s. Butter.—Separator, to Is; milled, lid; dairy, Ud per lb. Eggs.—Fresh, 10d to IOJd per dozen. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's, Gd; biiconers, sjd; choppers (hoa.vy) 3d to 3jd; slips, 7d; suckers, per lb. Honey.—4d to 4jd per lb. Beeswax.—ls od to Is 6d per lb. Fungus.—3id to 4d per lb. Tallow.—bins, 24a cwt. ! Poultry.—Cockerels, 4s Gd to Gs for good birds; table roosters, is Gd, table hens, 3s 6d to ss; ducks, 5s Gd to 6s 6d por pair; turkey gobblers, 10s per lb; hens, 9d por lb live weight. Maize.—ss 9d por bushel. Seed Maize.—Hickory King 7s 3d per bus. in sack lots, or 7s 9d less quantities AVhoat.—4s 6d per bushel. 10 sack lots 4s 4d. Feed barley.—3a 8 per bushel. Peas, Partridge.—4s per bushel. Horee Beans.—4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel; Pollard.—£7 per ton. Pea and Wheat Meal.—£7 5s per ton. Mollasses Fodder.r-£5 per ton or Gs per cwt. Chaff—Oaten-sheaf £4 10s to £5 per ton, ex store. Special quotations for truck lots. ; ; Hay.—Prime, £4 to £4 10s per ton. Meadow Hay.—For stock feeding £4 per ton intruck-lots. Sucrosine.—£7 10s per ton. Straw.—£3 os per ton ox store. Linseed Oil Cake.—Genuine £13 10s per ton. ■ Soya Bean Cake.—£l2 10s per ton. A* splendid stock food. Oats—Feed 2s 8d to 2s 10d per ! bushel; Duns, 2s lid. Oats—Crushed, 3s 3d per bushel. Seed Cape Barley.-—4s per bushol Seed Oats.—Algerians 3s 8d per bushel; Cartons, Excelsiors, Spa.rrowbills, Black Rivals; Duns, 3s Gd pper bushel. Vaporite destroys wireworms and all other soil pests, 3is per 2cwt. cask, or 20s per cwt., 12s b'd per 561bs. Simply dug or ploughed under the soil. eas—Choicest 'blends, Gib and 101b tins, Golden Tip Is 6d per lb. Tea Ceylon in 51b tins Is 4d per lb. Same in 5 tin lots sis 3d por lb. Exceptional value. > Send for freesample.