Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 June 1915, Page 4

Commercial

N.Z. FARMERS' 00-Oi'EilATIVt, i) ISTRIBUT JXG COM PAX Y, LTD.

WEEKLY PRODUCE KEPORT

As anticipated in last week's report, the value of potatoes has advanced, and seem likely to rise further. Seed potatoes are being freely enuired 'for, and good lines are offering, and we advise early booking. The market for onions continues dull, although good quality lines are freely offering. Oats have further advanced, the increased price being about lOd per bushel within the last ten days. Wheat is (stationary. Maize is in short supply, but a shipment from overseas is expected shortly. Meals are hccouuniiiig increasingly difficult to procure. Chaff is firmer. Supplies of straw are short. Linsoed oil cake is in good demand. Eggs are unchanged. Muchlarger supplies of hulk honey could be taken by this market. Porkers have been coming steadily into the market, and no difficulty lias been experienced in disposing of the quantity that has arrived lately, although the fact that freezing space is not procurable is undoubtedly affecting the price. Orders for molasses should reach us sotno time before being wanted ,as supplies are slow of delivery owing to great demand.

The supply of cauliflowers has ibeen exceptionally heavy lately, and in consequence low pi'ices have been ruling inferior lines being difficult to quit There is a fair domand for choice savoy cßibbage. Owing to the shortage of ripe marrows, high prices are ruling for line's offering. Ironbark pumpkins are enquired for, anr keen competition prevails. Lettuce are enquired for at higher rates. Swedes are dull of sale All root vegetables meet fair demand at last week's rates. Spring onions, leeks and celorv meet ready sale.

Fruit.—-There is a good demand for choice cooking and dessert apples, but inferior linos meet poor sale. Choice lilies of dessert pears are bought up at satisfactory rates, but cooking variesies are slow of sale. There are a few tomatoes coming from the Hutt, and choice lines are eagerly .nought up. Potatoes.—£s 10s to £6 10s Cabbage.—Choice Savoy, 3s to 4s; others, 2s to 2s Gd per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice, '5s to 6s; others 2.s 6d to 3s 6d sack. Carrots. Best 4» to ss; others 3s per sack. Celery.—ls to Is 3d per dozen. Marrows.—Bs to 10s per sack. Onions.—£s 10s per ton. Parsnips.—Choice, 4s Ud to us Gel per sack. Swedes—2s Ocl per cwt. Turnips.—White, 3s to -Is per sack. Leeks.—6d to 9d per bundle. Lettuce.—Choice. 3s Gd to 4s 6d; others 2s to 2s Od per case. Spinach.—2s Gd to 3s 6d per case. Spring Onions.—9d per bundle. Parsley.-—ls per dozen bundles. Pumpkins.—lronbark. 8s to 10s; othBoetroot—3s to 4s per sack. ers 3.s to 4s per sack. ! r U U IT. Pears.—Dessert, Choice, 4s Gd to 5s 6d per i-case. Pears-—Cooking, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per case. Apples.—Cooking, Choice, 4s Gd to ss; others 3s 6d. Apples.—Dessert, Choice Os'to 7s Gd ; others 4s to 5s per case. Tomatoes.—Round, Gs to 7s; others .4s to 5s per case. POULTRY. Light Table Hens, 2s 6d to 3s; heavy bens 4s to 4s Gd; cockerels, ss; good heavy ducks, 7s; Indian runners 5s per pair; turkey gobblers, Is per lb; hens 9d to lOd per lb GENERAL. Honey. —in GO's, od per ib. Houey Sections.—Gs Ga per dozen. Cheese.—Factory mediums. 9d per lb Eggs.-—Fresh, 2s per dozen; preserLieeswax.—ls Gd per ib. Fungus.—6£d per lb. Walnuts.—7d to 7Jd per lb. i

GRAIN, PRODUCE, ETC. Wheat.—Bs per bus. Maize.— 6s 6d per bushel. Oats.—A Grade, 5s SCi; Duns, -5s 3d per bushel. Oats.—Crushel, os 4d per bushel. Feed Barley—6s 6d per bushel. Feed Peas.—Gs Gd per bushel. Seed Cape Barley.—Gs Gd per hus. Seed Oats.—Storm King 5s 6d ; Gartons, Duns, 5s Gd; Algerians, 6s Gd per bushel. Pollard.—£lo os per ton. Bran.—£9 10s per ton. Rice Pollard.—£9 per ton. Sucrosinc.—New available. £9 per ton. Linsed Oil Cake.—Meal, genuine, 16s 6d per cwt. Chaff.— Oaten Sheaf, £9 6s per ton. Straw Chaff.—Wheaten straw. £5. Molasses.—2Bs per scwt casks free Quicklime—ln 281b air-tight tins, 3s por tin. Meat and Bone Meal.—l7g por 100; ds per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Straw.—£4 per ton ex store. Western Wolths Ryegrass (Ten Have's) —9d per lb. Sulphate Ammonia."—£lß per ton. Basic Slag.—£s 10s. Delivery JulyAugust. Sulphate Potash.—£3o per ton. Superphosphate—Limited quantity. £5 10s per ton. Salt Waste for Agricultural purposes 40s per ton. , Gear Company Blood Manure.— No. 2 £6. Gear Company Bonedust. —£6 ss. W. M. E. Coy. Manures not available till July,