Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 March 1913, Page 1

Commercial.

NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING UU., LTD.

WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to tij Uorowhffliiua Qkro; icle). WELLINGTON, March 13. As anticipated in previous reports the potato market lias fallen, and .a further decline is likely. Inferior lines are hard to quit. A plentiful supply is in sight in the South Island, and the prospects of any export trado is this year remote. Onions tire now coming on the market in fair quantities, 'with good demand for matured lot«. Eggs have advanced 2d during the week and are selling well. Pork is in excellent demand, and a much larger supply could l)c taken. Wo have no improvement to report in cheese. Recent rains have caused a considerable number of grass seed orders to come in, and this department of our business lias been kept very busy. We expect -seed peas of nil varieties to be in good demand this year, owing to partial failure of Blenheim crops. Chaff is firm : oats and wlieat are unchanged. FRUIT. —Choice dessert and cooking apples are in good demand. Tomatoes are at bedrock, and realising nominal rates only. VEGETABLES.- Cucumbers are plentiful and low in price. Other lines are in fair demand. Potatoes.—Be.st Huft C 8 to £8 10s others £7 to €7 10s per ton. Onions. —C 7 per ton. French Beans.—ld per lb. Cabbage.—Choice. Us to 4.3 per sack. Carrots.—Choice. 3s to 3s Qd per asek. Can li{lower.—Choice 8s to 9s per sack. Cucumbers.—ls 3d to Is Gd per hallcase. Green Poas.—ls per peck . Rhubarb.—Bs to 4e per dozen. Parsnips.—3s to is 6d per sack. Marrows.—ls 6d to 2s per dozen Swedes.—2s 6d to 3a per cwt. Turnips.—White, 2s to 3s per eack Lettuce.—Choice 2s Gd to 4s por case. Aplos.—Cooking -Is to 5s per c,ase; dessert (is to 8s per case. Peaches.-- Dessert, 3s (Jd to 4s Gd per case; others 2s to 3s. Pears.-Desert, 3s to 3s Gd per half case. Tomatoes.—l«. 3d to Is 9d per case. Eggs.--Fresh Is Gd per dozen, Cheese.-Best factory mediums Gd, loaf (jjd per- lb. Butter—Separator 9Jd, milled, Pd dairy 9d per lb. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 90's ejdj 90s to lOU's od; baconers. J> ; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3:M; sITpS 5Jd; suckers 7Jd per lb. Honey.—3Jd per lb New season's sections 6s Gd dozen. Beeswax.—Wanted. Fungus.— 4d per lb. Walnuts.—Gd per lb. Tallow.-Gasks, 27s 6d; tins 19s to 2Js cwt. Poultry—Cockerels 4s to 6s for good birds; table roosters 3s 6d; hens 3s to 4s; good table liens 5; good ducks 6s; Indian Runnei-s 4,s to 5s per pair; turkoy gobblers h per lb live weight; hens lOd por lb. Maize.—ss per bushel. Wheat.--4s Gd per bushel; ten sack lots .| s 4d. Wheat.—Seconds, 3s 6d to 4s per bushel. Feed Barley.-Ss 8d per bushel. Peas, Partridge.—Feed 3a 9d fcc 4s per bushel. Prussian Blue Beed Peaa.—ss per bushel. Horse Beans.—4s 6d per bushel. Pollard—l 7 10s po rton; 5s less for ton lots. Bran.— £5 g 8 per ton; 5s les3 for ton lots. Barley Meal—£7 per ton. ] Pure Pea Meal.—£7 per ton. Mollauses fodder.—£s per ton, or 6s por cwt. Chaff—Oaten Sheaf, £4 10b per ton, ex store. Special quotations for largo lots. Hay.—Prime £4 10s to £5 per ton Sucroßine—£7 per ton. Straw.—£3 por ton, ex store. Linseed oil cake—Genuine *!12 10s per ton. Oats—Feed 2s 9d ; Duns 2s 9d to 2s lOd per bushel. Oats.—Discoloured Is 9d to 2s 8d per bushel. Oats—Crushed 2s 9d to 3s oer bushel. Seed Oats.—Algerians 3« 8d per bushel, Gartons; Sparrowbills, Storm Kings, 3s 6d per bushel.