Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1913, Page 1

Commercial.

$ NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING UU., LTD. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to tii Uorowhenaa Gbx'/ icle). WELLINGTON, March 13. As anticipated in previous reports the potato market has fallen, ami in further decline is likely. Interim, linos are hard to quit. A plentiful .supply is in sight in the South Island, and the prospects of any export trade is this year remote. Onions are now coming on the market in fair quantities, with good demand for matured lots. Eggs have advanced 2d during the week and are .soiling well. Pork is in excellent demand, and a much larger supply could bo 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 dopartinent of our business has been kept very busy. "Wo expect seed pens of all varieties to be in good demand tin's year, owing lo partial failure of Blenheim crops. Chaff is firm ; oats and wheat are unchanged. FRUIT.- Choice dessert and cooking apples are in good demand. Tomntoes are at bedrock, and realising nominal rates only. VEGETABLES.- Cucumbers are plentiful and low in price. Other lines are in fair demand. Potato..*.— Huft ;G8 to £8 10s others £7 to £7 10s per ton. Onions.— £7 per ton. French Beans.—ld per lb. Cabbage.—Choice, 3s to 4s per sack. Carrots. —Choice. 3s to 3s Gd per asck. Cauliflower.—Choice 8s to i).s per rsack. Cucumbers.-- Is 3d to Ls Gd per half ciise. Green Poas.—ls per peck . Rhubarb.—3s to 4s per dozen. Parsnips.—3s to 4s Gd por sack. Marrows.—ls 6d to 2s por dozen Swedes.—2s Gd to 3s por cwt. Turnips.—White, 2s to 3s per sack Lettuce.—Choice 2s Gd to 4s per ease. A plus.—Cooking -Is to us per case; dessert Us to 8s per case. LVachc.s.—Dessert, 3s Gd to 4s Gd per case; others 2s to 3s. Pears. - Dei-aert, ."3s to 3s Gd per liali ease. Tomatoes. —Is 3d to Is :)d per ca.se. J'4;gs. I'lvoh Is Gel per dozen. Cheese. • lies.t factory mediums (id, loaf (i.ld per lb. Butter.—Separator 9jd, milled, Pd dairy 9d per lb. DreMiwl IVk.—7o's to UO's d' 4 d; W.s to lOU's -j(l; baconer.s, -1\ ; choppers, (heavy) 3d to 3;] d; *l!pl> ojdj suckers 7}d per lb. Honoy.—BJd per lb New season's sections Gs Gd dozen. Beeswax. —Wanted. Fungus.—ld per lb. Walnnte.— 6d per lb. Tallow.—Casks, 27s Gd; tine 19s to 21s cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels 4s to 6s for good birds; table roostors 3s Gd; liens 3s to 4s; good table hens -5; good ducks Gs; Indian Runners 4s to 5s por pair; turkey gobblers hper lb live weight; hens 10d pe-r lb. Maize.—ss per bushel. Wheat.—4s Gd per bushel; teu sack lots 4s id. Wheat.—Seconds, 3s 6d to 4e per ! bushel. Feed Barley.— 3s 8d per bush si. Peas, Partridge.—Feed 3s 9d tc 4s per bushel. Prussian Blue Seed Peas.— ss per bushel. Horse Beans.—4e 6d per buahel Pollard.— £7 10s po rton; 5« less for lon lots. Bran.—£s 5s per ton; 5a less for ton lots. Barley Meal.—£7 por ton. Pure Pea Meal.—£7 per ton Mollauses fodder.—£s per ton, or 6s per cwt. Chaff.-Oaten Sheaf, £4 10a per ton, ex store. Special quotations for largo lots. Hay.— Primo £-1 10s to £5 por ton Sucrosine—£7 por ton. Straw.—£3 per ton, ox storo. Linseed oil cake.—Genuine n .\2 10s per ton. Oals.—Kecd L\s Od ; Duns 2s 9d to 2s lOd per bushel. Oats.-Discoloured Is 9d to 2s Sd per bushel. Oats.-Crushed !>s 9d to 3s oev bushel. Seed Oats.— Algerians 3a 8d per bushel, Gartons, Sparrowbills, Storm Kings, 3b 6d per bushel.