Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 June 1915, Page 1

Commercial.

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TiUi SKW ZEALAND I'ARAIEIiS CO-OPERATIVE DlalTßlli UTiN O COMPANY, LTD.

WEEKLY REPORT. As anticipated in ias't 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 ottering. Oats have further advanced, the increased price being about lOd per busiiel within the last ten days. Wheat is stationary. Maize is iu short supply, but a shipment from-overseas is exixicted shortly. Meals are becomining increasingly difficult io procure. Chaff is firmer. Supplies of straw are short. Linseed oil cake is in good demand. Eggs are unchanged. Mueblarger supplies of bulk huney could bo taken by this market. Porkers have beea coming steadily into the market, and no difficulty has 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 leacli us some time before being wanted } as supplies are slow of delivery owing to great demand.

Ine supply oi cauliiiowcrs has been exceptionally heavy lately, and in conseipiciice low prices have been ruling niicrior lines being difficult to quit j neru is a lair demand for choice savoy cabbage. Owinjr to the shortage of ripe marrows, lngii prices are ruling for lines offering. Iron bark pumpkins arc enquired for, anr keen competition prevails. Lettuce are*enquired tor at higher rates. Swedes are dull of sale All root vegetables meet fair demand at last week's rates. Spring onions, leeks ami celery meet ready sate. i'ruit.'—There is a good demand for choice cooking and dessert apples, but interior lines meet poor sale. Choice hues of dessert pears arc nought up at satisfactory rates, but cooking variesies are slow of sale. There are a few tomatoes coming from the Hutt, and cboiee inies are eagerly nought u>p. Potatoes.—£s 10s to £t> 10s Cabbage.—Choice Savoy, 3s to 4s; others, 2s to 2s Gd per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice, 5s to 6s; others 2-; Gd to 3s Gd sack. Carrots. Best 4s to os; others 3s per sack. Coiery.—ls to Is 3d per dozen. Marrows.—Bs to 10s per sack. • Onions.—£s 10s per ton. Parsnips.—Choice, 4s Gd to 5s 6d per sack Swedes—2s Gd per cwt. Turnips.—White, 3s to 4s per sack. Leeks.—Gd to Ud per bundle. Lettuce.—Choice, 3s Gd to 4s 6d; others 2s to 2s Gd per case. Spinach.—2s Gd to 3s Gd per caee. Spring Onions.—Od per bundle. Parsley.'—ls per dozen bundles; Pumpkins.—lronbark,. 8s to 10s; othDeetroot.—3s to 4s per sack. ers 3s to 4s per sack. ELtUIT.

P.iears. —Dessert, Choice, 4s 6d to 5s Cd per i-case. Tears- —Cooking, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per case. Apples.—Cookiug, Choice, 4s (id to os ; others 3s (3d. Apples.—Dessert, Choice <js to 7s (id; others 4s to os per case. Tomatoes.—Hound, Us to 7s; others -!e> to os per case. POULTRY. Light Table Hens, 2s Cd to 3s; heavy hens 4s to 4s bd; cockerels, ss; ,;•>:-] lu.uv;,- 'hicks, 7s; Indian run- ,' i, ■■:;■:-, ..., pi;: p;ii; ■. uriioy jobbers, u> iiej hi: ■ -:u>. '»•: to Ifk: ;.>uj \b | {.i.int-y. > o' I '--:, ->:i p.\r lb. j ililfj.- A'ti KUiS.- <JS O'.i j>t.'> dv/Cl:. C- ! -i.--- i'HCtory :■;..<.,'iuit:.s, yd per H> ) Eggs.- j -l , 'resh, 2s per icy -v. ; preset beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus.—6Jd per lb. Walnuts.—7d to per lb. GRAIN, PRODUCE, ETC. Wheat. —8s per bus. Maize.— 6s 6d per bushel. Oats.—A Grade, 5s 3"d; Duns, 5s 3d t >er bushel. Outs.—Crushel, 5s 4d per bushel. Feed Barley—6s 6d per bushel. b'eed Peas.—Gs 6d per bushel. Seed Cape Barley.—6s 6d per bus. Weed Oats.—Storm King os Cd; Gartons, Duns, 5s 6d ; Algerians, 6s 6d per bushel. Pollard.—£lo os per ton. Bran.—£9 10s per ton. Uice Pollard.—£9 per ton. Suerosine.—New available. £9 per ton Li used Oil Cako.—Meal, genuine', i.6s (Jd per cwt. Chaff.-—Oaten Shea!', £9 os per ton. Straw Chaff.—Wheaten straw, £5. Molasses. —28s per scwt oasks free Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Mt-at and Done Meal 17s per 100; -Js per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Straw.—£4 per ton ex store. Western Woltha Ryegrass (Ten Have's) —9d per lb. Sulphate Ammonia.'—£lß per ton. Basic Slag.—£u 10s. Delivery JulyAugust. Sulpiia-te Potash.—£3o per ton. Superphosphate. —Limited quantity. £5 10s per ton. ( Salt Waste for Agricultural purposes 10s per ton. Gear Company Blood Manure.— No. 2 £6. I Gear Company Bonedust.—£6 ss. I W. M. E. Coj'. Manures not available , till July.