COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 March 1915, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

N.Z. FARMERS' COOPERATIVE iJISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LTD.

WEEKLY REPORT,

■Wellington March. 11

Tho market for potatoes Iremains steady, and the supply good, in botl quantity and quility. The presenl rainfall many have the effect of temporarily shortening supplies and i r i crease prices meanwhile. Onions art now available from South at low rates and fair business is passing. "We stii continue to quote fowl wheat at 7s oc bushel, which is below the price it car be landed at to-day. AYe do not intend to increase the price so long a: our present stocks last. Oats have taken a further rise consequent on •. t removal of the duty in Australia. Tin further is, however, not certain. Barlej is quoting at high rates. Isla.it maize of excellent quality is now available. Seed Algerian oats are in exceptionally good demand. \\*e have now fair quantity to offer for immediate delivery. Good business is leingdoue in grass seed. Chaff is offering more /freely, but there 'is a hardening tendency in values. YVhe-ii straw is plentiful, but oaten very hard to procure. The dry weather is esponsible for the fact that farmers art

retaining their oaten straw for stock feed. This same cause ihais also brought a big demand for Molasses lor cattle feeding. Porkers are in good demand, but suckers are rather dull of sale at lower prices. ; Eggs are slightly higher. Now honey is" enquired for, and would meet ready sale. Vegetables Cabbages sell readily. (Choice lilies of cauliflowers are scarce, and small lines offering realise satisfactory prcie6. Green peas are offering I in small quantities. Beans are Tiiglier . and choice lines arc scarce lettuces. | are in good demand at satisfactory rates. Swedes are in fair sale. All root vegetables meet ready sale. Celery meet fair demand. Fruit—Choice dessert and choking apples arc in good demand and prices have advanced for good green cookers. Cooking and dessert pears meet ready sals. Atfekland passion iruit are arriving regularly, and are in good demand "'here is good demand for ripe tomatoes, and from enquiries made growers hi Hutt districts are experiencing difficulty in getting their crops ripe. Blackberries are now coming in. Grapes meet good demand. VEGETABLES. Potatoes.--Prime £5 10s to £'G ; others £5.

Cabbage.-Choke 3s to 3s Od ; others 2s per sack. Cauliflower. Choke 'is lid to 8s Oil: others 4s to 5s sack. Carrots.—Best 4s to Is" lid; others 3s (id per sack. Celery.—ls 6d to 2s per dozen. Cucumbers—3s to 3s 6d per half Marrows—2s (id to 3s per sack. Onions—£(j 10s per ton. Parsnips.—Choice is to 5s per sack. Peas—Choice Is per peck. Swedes.—2s 6d per owt. Turnips.—White 3s to 3s 6d per sack Lettuce.—Choice os to b's; others 3s per case. Spring onions.—Sd per bundle. Mint.—ls to Is 6d per dozen bundles. Parsley.—ls per dozen "bundles. Beans—French 7s to 8s o'd per part sack. FRUIT. Blackberries.—3d per lb. 4s Od to 5s per hall case. N Peaches.—Choice dessert 4b to ss; medium 3s 6d; others 3s. Pears—W.B.C. 3s to 4s half case. Pears— Cooking 4s to 5s per case. Apples—Cooking, choice on to os Sd ;. others 4s. Aples—TJflessert, choice Ob to 7s; others 4s 6d to 5s Od per case. Tomatoes.—Ripe bslkl to 8s 6d ; oth- . ers 5s to 5s 6d per half case. Crapes—9d per lb. POULTRY. Light table hens 2s to 3s 6d; heavy hens 4s to 4s 6d ; cockerels Is (3d to 3s; heavy ducks 7s; Indian Runners 4s d to 5s 6d per pair; turkey gobblers lid per lb; hens 9d per live weight. GENERAL. Dressed pork—7o'e to »o's sd; 90's to 100's, 4jfd; Baeoners, "4id; Choppers (heavy) 3Jd per lb; suckers (3d to (JJiL Butter—Separator 10id to lid per lb. Honey—ld per lb. Honey.—Sections bs to tis 6d per dozen. Cheese.—Factory mediums 74d per ib ■Uggs— Fresh Is 6d to Is 7d per

dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus.— 6d per lb. Wanted. Walnuts.—Wanted. Wheat.-7s 6d per bushel. i Maize—6s tid per bushel. Oats.-ss; Duns Is lOd per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 5s 3d Feed barley—6s per Dushel. Feed Peas.— 6s 6d per buihel Seed Cape barley—6e 6d per bushel. Seed Oats.—Storm King, Gartous Spanwbills, Duns 5s 6d; Algerian Us W per bushel. Flour—Sacks 38s; 100's 19s 6d. Pollard—£9 15s per ton. 'Bran.—£B 10s per ton. Linseed Oil Cake—Nuts or Meal, genuine, 16b 6d cwt. Chaff—Oaten Shoaf. £8 5s per to i Molasses.—2Bs per octet cask. Quicklime.—ln 281b tins 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal.—l7s per 1009s per 50 and 5s per 251b bag. Straw—£4 per toa ex store. Western Wolths ryegrass Ten Have's) —9d per lb. Sutton's Seeds—As per their list. Bilston Basic Slag.-£5 5s per ton. Mount Lyell Super.-£5 per ton. Sulphate Ammonia—£lß 10s per ton. Sulphate Potash—£3o per ton. Gear Co. blood manure, No. 2. £6. Gear Co. Bonedust £6 ss. W.M.E. Co. No! 3 Manure, £5 12s 6d per ton.