Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1912, Page 1

Commercial.

\ — * — NJEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-}-OPERATING DISTRIBUTING y ' ■""' CO., LTD. WHEKLY REPORT: (Speoial to the Horowhenua Chronicle). ' • WELLINGTON, Sept., 20. The.potato market has a declining: tendency, and supplies aro plentiful. Indi«ations are that the new Auckland crop will be ready this season. During the week we disposed of a large shipment of Caiifornian onions, the quality of which is excellent. *No other supplies are due for about three weeks. Eggs are unchanged. Honey of excellent quality is offering freely. Butter is wanted in larger quantities. Choose is very firm. Porkers slow, a weakening in values as may now be expected as the spring supply becomes available. Chaff and grain is quiet. Apples in good demand, particularly cookers. Hutt rhubarb is now reaching the market in large supplies. We yesterday sold the first line of Nelson groen peas to reach the market 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.—3a to 4s per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice, 8s 6d to 12s Gd per sack. Nelson green peas.—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.—los to 14s 6d per eaok Apples.—Cooking, Choice, 6s to 7s per case. Apples.—Dessert, 6s to 9s per case Cheese.—Best factory mediums, 7d; loaf, 7id to 8d per If. Mandarines.—9s to lis. Sydney oranges.—los to 13s. Passions.—Bs to 9s. Butter—Separator, Hid to Is; milled, lid; dairy, lid per Ib. Eggs.—Fresh, lOd to 10Jd per dozen. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's, 6d; bmxmors, 5Jd; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3|H; slips, 7d; suckers, 7Jd par lb. Honey.—4d to 4id per lb. Beeswax.—ls 5d to Is 6d por lb. Fungus.—3jd to 4d per lb. Tallow.—tins, 24s cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels, 4s 6d to 6s for good birds; table roosters. 4s 6d, table hens, 3s 6d to ss; ducks, 5s Gd to G3 6d por pair; turkey gobblers, 10s per lb; hens, 9d per lb live weight. Maize.—ss 9d per bushel. Seed Maize.—Hickory King 7s 3d per hue. in sack lots, or 7s 9d less quantities Wheat.—4s 6d per bushel. 10 sack lots 4s 4d. Feed barley.—3s 8 per bushel. Peas, Partridge —4s per bushel. Horee Beans.—4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel. Pollard.—d 27 per ton. Pea and Wheat;Mcal £7 5s per ton. Mollasses .Fodder..—£s pel' 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 5s per ton ex store. Linseed Oil Cake.—Genuine £13 10s per ton. Soya Bean Cake.—£l2 10s per ton. A splendid 6tock food. Oats.-Feed 2s 8d to 2s lOd pelbushel; Duns, 2s lid. Oats—Crushed, 3s 3d per bushel. Seed Capo Barley.—4s per bushel Seed Oats.—Algerians 3s 8d por bushel; Gartons, Excelsiors, Sparrowhills, Black Rivals, Duns, 3s 6d. pper bushel. . . ~

Vaporite destroys wirowtorms arid' all other soil.pests, 34s per 2c\vt. cask,, or 20s per cwt., 12s 6d ppr •561bs. Siinply dug or ploughed under the soil. ;',;; - eas—Choices^/-'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 le 3d per lb. Exceptional value. Send for freo sample. .:":-. : OMMsanaw