Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 February 1913, Page 1

Commercial.

—. —$ NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., IVTD. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to the Horowhanua Chronicle). WELLINGTON, Feb 13. Potatoes are slightly easier, but ic. excellent demand. Onions areiu f.-'r sale. The price of eggs is still keeping up to a high, liguro for this time of the year, but tbeio are indications that the market is somewhat easier. Porkers arc in good domand. Cheese is decidedly weaker, and sales are slow. Poultry its in good demand for fair lots. Meals of all kinds are being freely orderde. Wheat is steady. Oats of new season's crop are now offering, and the market is uncertain. New chaff 'S selling freely, and the quality generally is excellent. During the week there has been a good demand for sed oats and Cape barley for Autumn sowing. FRUlT.—Apples arc now comiig in freely. Peaches are now plentiful and prices weaker. Pears are al*) reaching this market in fair quantities. Nectarines aro in good demand, as also are dessert plums. Tomatoes havo fallen very considerably since last week. VEGETABLES.—Peas cabbago, and most other lines aro weakor.. Lettuce is very plentiful and iow in price, while root crops aro iu fair - da mand. Potatoes.—7s 6d to 9s cwt. Australian onions.—£7 per ton. French Beans.—ld per lb. Cabbage.—Choice 3s to 43 per -ask Carrots.—Choice 3s to 4s per sack Cauliflower.—Choice Gs to 7s 6J per sack. Cucumbers.— 2s to 3s per half case. Grefin Peas.—Bs per peck. Rhubarb.—3s to 4e per dozen. Parsnips.—4s to 5s per sack. i Marrows—ls Gd to 2s per dozen Swedes.—3s to 4s per cwt. Turnips.—White, 2s to 3s por sack Lettuce.—Choice Is to Is 6d por case. Aples.—Cooking 3s 6d to <ls (U per case; dessert 5s 6d to 8s p<jr oaee Nectarines.—3s to 3s Gd per case Peaches.—4s to 5s per caso; others 2s to 3s. Pears.—Dessert, 3s to 3s 6d por half caso. Greengages.—ss to Gs per half wise riuins.-Dcs.sert 3s Gd to 4s 6d; cooking, 2s to 3s per case. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 6d per dozen. Cheeso.— Best factory mediums, Gjcl, loaf 7d por lb. Butter.—Separator, 9Jd to lOd Milled 9Jd; Dairy, 9}d. Dressed pork.—7o's to 00's,5d; 90's to 100's 42d; baconors 4Jd; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3|d; slips, Gd; suckers 7id per lb. Honey.—3Jd per lb. Beeswax.—Wanted. Fungus.—4d por lb". Walnuts.—Gd por lb. Tallow.—Casks, 27s 6d to 28s 3d; tins 19s to 24s per cwt. Poutry.—Cockorols, 4s to 6s for good birds,; table roosters 3s Gd; table liens 3s Gd to 4s; good tablo lions, ss; good ducks, 6a 6d; Indian Runnors 4s to 5s por pair; turkey gobblers Is por lb; hons, lOd per Jb live weight. Maize— 5s 3d per bushel. Seed Maize.—Hickory King, Gs per bushel. Wheat.—4s 5d per bushel. Ten >ack lots, 4s 4d. Wheat.—Seconds, 3s Gd to 4s pee Misliel. Feed Barley.—3s 8d per bush?!. Peas, Partridge.—Feed 3s 9d to Is per bushel. Prussian Blue Seed Peas.—sa per jushol. Horse Beans.—4s 6d por tushol. Pollard.—£7 per ton. 5s less for an lots. Bran.—£s 5 S por ton; 5a less for on lots. Pea and Wheat Meal.—£7 10s per on. Barley Meal.—£7 per ton. Pure Pea Meal.—£7 por ton. Pea and Wheat Meal— £7 por on. Mollasses fodder.—£s por ton, or s per cwt. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £4 10s por on, ex store. Special quotations or large lots. Hay.—Prime, £1 to £4 10s per on. Meadow hay.—For Etook feeding, 33 15a p«r ton,, ex itore. Sucrosine—£7 per ton. Straw.—£3 5a per ton ex store. Linseed oil cake.—Gonuino 312 0s por ton. Oats.-— Oats.—Feed 2s Bd, Dunv s 9d por bushel. Oats—Discoloured, 2s to 2a 3d por mshel. Oats.—Crushed, 29 9d per b'usho). Seed Oats.—Algerians 8a 8d per mshel, Gartons, Sparrowbilla, Storm £ings, 3s 6d per bushel. Seed Cape Barley.-3a lid por lushel.

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