COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 February 1915, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

N.Z. FARMERS' 00-OPERATIVE DISTIUBUTING COMPANY, LTD. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, Feb id. Tho market is being steadily supplied with potatoes, and salos are eatisfactry. Wo again impress on North Island growers tlie importance of (sending - n their supplies without delay while good prices prevail. Small shipments from South have already arrived, and these will increase from now on. There has been a. slight hardening in values of ouioiis, but tho supply should increase alter this month, with lower prices. All grains are offering very sparingly, and with a further slight rise during the week in wheat, oats and barley. Weed lines of oats are in good bemand, also cape barley. There has been a sharp advance in values of- ryegrass during the week, and alines offering have been readily bought up at the higher figures. Very little business is passing in chaff or oate. Eggs have further advanced. Porkers are in good demand. Cheese is dagerly enquired for, and we invite consignments with every coniideoe. <« Vegetables.—Choice lies ot green peas sell at good prices. Beans are selling at fair rates only. Cabbages are plentiful, and difficult to quit at payable rates. Choice cauliflowers meot good demand at satisfactory rates All root vegetables are realising satisfactory prices. Lettuce is selling well Swedes are in good demand. Fruit.—Largu shipments ot peaches and plums are arriving, and prices are low. We expect higiier prices for peaches to be ruling very shortly, us this line will bo getting in short supply. Choice lines of nectarines meet good demand. Dessert and cooking pears are plentiful, and at the moment are selling at very low rates. There -s good enquiry for greengages, which are in short supply. Choice lines of dessert and cooking apples meet good demand. Tho demand for tomatoes .e----mains good, and there is keen competition for choice lines. Grapes meet fair demand at market values. Potatoes.—Prime, £8 to £8 10s; others, £6 to £7. Cabbage.—Choice/2s6d to 3s; others Is (id per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice wto 8s; others 3s to 4s sack. Carrots.—Best, 5s to os (3d; others, 4s per sack. Marrows.—3s per sack. Onions.—£9 per ton. Parsnips.—Choice, 6s to 7s per sack. Peas.—Choice, 9d to Is per peck. (Swedes.—2s 6d to 3.s per cwt. Lettuce.—Choice, 3s (3d to os. others, 2s per case. Spring Onions.—9cl per bundle. Beans.—French, 4s to 5s per part sack. FRUIT. Peacfces.—Choice dessert, 3s to 3s 6d ; medium, 2s o'd; others, Is 6d to 2s. Pears.—W.B.C., 2s to 3s per J-caee. Peags.—Cooking, 4s to 6s per case. Nectarines.—Choice, 3s o'd to 4s; others, 3s j-case. Apples. —Cooking, choice, 4s to 4s Gd; others, 3s to 3s 6d. < Apples.—Dessert, choice, 6s to 7s per case. Pluilns. —Burbanks, choice 3s to 3s (3d ; others 2s to 2s 6d. Tomatoes.'—Ripe, 7s bo Us; others, 5s 6d to Cs 6d per }-case. Grapes.—9d per lb. POULTRY. Light table hens 2s 6d to 3s; heavy hens 4s; cockerels Is 6d to 3s; good heavy ducks 7s; Indian Runners 4s Sd to 5s 6d pair; turkey gobblers lid per lb; hens' 9d per lb live weight. GENERAL. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 90's, sd; 90' a to 100's, 4Jd; Baconers, 4£d; choppers (heavy) 3*d per lb. Our weekly pork sales held each Friday during the summer. Butter.—Separator, 10id to lid per lb. Honey.— id per lb. Honey Sections—6a 6d per dozen. Oheese.—Factory mediums 7d per lb. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 9d to Is 10d per doz. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus—6d per lb. Wanted. Walnuts.—Wanted. GRAIN, PRODUCE, ETC. Wheat.—7s (id per bus. Maize.—tis per bus. Oats.—4s 8d; Duns, 4s 8d por bus. Oats.—Crushed, 5s per bushel. Feed Barley.—(is per bus. Feed peas.— 6s per bushel Seed Cape Barley^— Us tid per bub. Seed Oate.—Storm King, os; Gartons, Sparrow bills, Duns, Is 10d per bus. Flour.—Sacks 365, 100's 18s 6d. Pollard £9 10s per ton. Bran.—£B 10s per ton. Sucrosine.—Not available just now. Linsed Oil Cake.—Meal, genuine, i6s 6d per owt. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf, £8 per ton. Special quotations for large lots. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal—l7s per 100; Js per 50, and 5s per 251b uag. Straw.'—£4 por ton ex store. Western Wolths Ryegrass (Ten Have's).—Bd per lb. Western Wolths Ryegrass.— Grown from imported seed 6d per lb. • tiutton's Swede and Turnip Seeds .>s per their list. Bilston's Basic Slag.—£s 5s per ton. Mount Lyell Super. —i'o per ton. Sulphate Ammonia.—£lß ICte per ton. Turnips.—AVhite 2s to 2s 6il sack. •Mint.—ls to Is 6tl per dozen bundles. Parsley.—ls per dozen bundles . Sulphate Potash.—£3o per ton. Gear Company's Blood Manure, No. 26 —£6. Gear Company Bonedust.—£6 ss. W.M.E. Coy. No. 3 Manure, £5 12s 6d per ton. All grass seeds at lowest rates.