Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 March 1913, Page 1

Commercial.

♦— NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING W., IiTD. WJiiEKLY REPOBT. iSpecial to ti* Horowhenua Qxi ".• icle). WELLINGTON, March 13. As anticipated in previous reports the potato market lias fallen, and a further docline ie likely. Inferior lines aro hard to quit. A plentiful supply is in sight in the South Island, and tho prospccte of any export trade is this year remote. Onions iiiro now coming on the market iu fair quantities, with good demand for matured lote. Eggs have advanced 2<l during the week and are selling well. Pork is in excellent demand, and a much Larger supply could be taken. We 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 has been kept very busy. "We expect seed peae of all varieties to be in good demand this year, owing to partial failure of Blenheim crops. Chaff is firm; oats and whoat are unchanged. FRUlT.—Choice dessert and cooking apples are in good demand. Tomatoes are at bedrock, and realising nominal rates only. VEGETABLES.- Cucumbers arc plentiful and low in price. Other lines are in fair demand. Potatoes.—Best Huft £8 to £8 10s others £7 to £7 10s per ton. Onions.—£7 per ton. French Beans.—ld per lb. Cabbage.—Choice, 3e to 4s per sack. Carrots.—Choice, 3s to 3e 6d per asck. Cauliflower.—Choice 8s to 9s per sack. Cucumbers.—-Iβ 3d to Is 6d per half case. Green Peas.—ls per peck . Rhubarb.—3s to 4s per dozen. Parsnips.—3s to 4e 6d per sack. Marrows.—lβ 6d to 2e per dozen Swodes.—2s 6d to 3s per cwt. Turnips.—White, 2s to 3s per sack Lettuce.—Choice 2s (3d to 4s per case. Aples.—Cooking -is to 5s per caee; dessert Gs to 8s per case. Peaches.—Dessert, 3s (xl to 4s 6d per case; others 2s to 3s. Pears.—Dettsert, 3s to 3a Gd per half case. Tomatoes.—ls 3d to Is dd per case. Eggs.—Fresh Is (3d per dozen. Cheese—Best factory mediums Gd, loaf UJd pur Ib. Butter.—Separator 9jd, milled, l>d dairy 9d per lb. Dressed Pork.-70's to 90'e 5Jd ; 90's to 100's od; 'ba Conors, 4£; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3|J-d; slips 5Jd; suckers 7Jd per lb. Honey.— 3Jd per lb New season's sections 6s 6d dozen. Beeswax.—Wanted. Fungus.—4d per lb. Walnuts.—6d per lb. Tallow.—Casks, 27s 6d; tins 19s to 24s cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels 4s to 6*e for good birds; table roosters 3e 6d; hens 3s to 4s; good table hens -5; good ducks 6s; Indian Runners 4s to 5s per pair; turkey gobblers Js per lb live woight; hens lOd per lb. Maize.—ss per bushel. Wheat.—4s Cd per bushel; ton sack lots 4s 4d. Wheat.—Seconds, 3s 6d to 4s per bushel. Feed Barley.—ss 8d per bneh«l. Peas, Partridge.—Feed 3a 9d tc 4s per bushel. Prussian Blue Seed Peae.—ss per bushel. Horse Beans.—4s 6d per tnnhel. Pollard.—£7 10s pe rtonj 5e less for ton lots. Bran.—£s 5s per ton; 5a less for ton lote. Barley Meal—£7 per ton. Pure Pea Meal.—£7 per ton Mollaases fodder.—£s per ton, or 6s per cwt. Chaff—Oaten Sheaf, £4 10a per ton, ex store. Special quotations for large lots. Hay.—Prime £4 10s to £5 per ton Sucrosine—£7 per ton. Straw.—£3 per ton, ex store. Linseed oil cake.—Genuine 912 10s per ton. Oats—Feed 2s 9d; Duns 2s 9d to 2e lOd per bushel. Oats.—Discoloured Is 9d to 2s 3d per bushel. Oats—Crushed 2s' 9d to 3s oer bushel. Seed Oats.—Algerians 3s M. per bushel, Gaxtone, Sparrowbills, Storm Kings, 3e 6d per bushel.