Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 June 1913, Page 3

Commercial.

NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., LTD. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to Tho Horowlienua Chronicle). . WELLINGTON, Juno 19. The potato market is still keeping linn, and the supplies are readily obsoibcd. Growers will, however, be wise to forward their holdings with as little deJny as possible, as there is every prospect oP --the present prices coming back, and throughout tho country there is ample- supplies for the season. Seed potatoes aro selling freely, and tho quality offering this year is decidedly good. Dead pigs continue in exceptional demand. Eggs are wanted in larger quantities. Poultry continues to find excellent sale, especially turkeys, which mre higher in value than for many years past. Grain is very quiet, but chaff is in very fair sale, and straw and hay especially enquired for. Fruit.—Apples have advanced iand the demand for all fruits is very satisfactory, with supplies insufficient

for the requirements of the trade, especially pears. Vegetables.—Cabbage and cauliflower, excellent demand. Lettuce arc selling at fancy prices. Marrows and pumpkins find ready sale at high values. Potatoes.—Prime £o 10s per ton. Onions.—Melbourne, £10 per ton. Cabbage.—Choico v 3s to 5s per sack. Carrots.—Choice, 4s to 5s per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice 8s to 10s; others 4s to 5s per sack. Marrows.—4s Gd to 5s per sack. Parsnips.—ls to os per sack. Pumpkins.—4s to Gs per sack. Swedes.—2s Gd per cwt. Turnips.—White 2s Gd per sack. Lettuce.—Choice 5s to 6s 6d case. Apples.—Cooking 5s to 7s 6d per cas?.; dessert 7s Cd to 10s per case. Pears.—Dessert 10s per case. Cheese.—Best factory mediums, %1; loaf, per lb. Eggs—Fresh 2s per doz; preserved Is Gd per doz. Butter.-Separator Is; milled IOJo to lid; dairy lid per lb. Dressed pork.-70's to 90's, GJd: yO's to 100's. Gd; baconers, sjd; choppers (heavy), to 4Jd; slips, 6d to GJd; suckers, 7d per lb. Honey.—4d per lb. Now season's sections 6s dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus.—4*d per lb. Walnuts.—Gd per lb. Tallow.-Casks, 28s Cd; tins, 22s to 2Gs cwt. Poultry—Cockerels, 4s 6d to Cs for good birds; bens 3s Gd to 4s 6d; good table hens os; good heavy ducks is Gd; Indian Runners Gs to Gs Gd per pair; turkey gobblers Is per lb; hens 10d per lb live weight. Maize.—Ss 3d per bus. Wheat—l s Gd per bus. Ten sack lots 4.s Id to 4s ;Id. l'Vcd barley.-3s 3d per bus. Ten sacks, 3s Gd per bus. Pons, Partridge.-Feed 4s per bus. lens—Discoloured, 3s 6d per bus. Prussian bins .seed seas—ss 6d bus Horse benns.-ls to 4s Gd per bus'. lollard—l7 10s per ton; 10s loss tor ton lots. Bran— £5 io { - »or ton ;5s loss for ton lots. Barley meal—£7 10s per ton; 10s less for ton lots. Pure pen mwil—£7 5s per ton , Mollnsses in casks—£-1 5 S per ton, or ,'o.s per cask; Gs per cwt. case Chaff—Oaten sheaf £5 5s per ton ■ ex store. Hay—Prime £4 10s to £5 per ton. biicrosinc—£7 per ton in 200's Straw—£3 per ton. ox store. ' j Linseed oil cako—£l2 10s per ton, ' or 13s cwt. Oats.-Foed 2s lid to 3s; Dune 3s to 3s 2d per bus. Oats—Crushed, 3s 3d per bushel. feced, Cape .Barley—3s 10d per bus Seed, oats—Specially dressed Algerians, 3s 8d per bushel; Gartons. Spnriwbills. Duns, Storm Kings ?* Gd per bushel. Vaporito—l2s Gd per oGlbs.