COMMERCIAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 April 1916, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

♦ THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' ' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMI'IEiD. "WEEKLY RlU'Oiri'. Wellington, April '28 Potatoes are steady at recent rates, but interior lines <uo hard to cleai. Wheat and oats are stationary, and a fair demand exists. Pollard and bran are scarce. O!uiiV is still selling well at recent rates. Pork ia in very good demand. {sucking pigs have iTeen arriving in large numbers and as the demand is limited, prices ill suffer a big drop it the supply continues or increases. Honey is wanted. Grass seeds are in very good demand, and large sales are taking place, particularly of western wolths for green feed J sowing. Molasses for stock feeding are in good demand. Cabbage and cauliflower are arriving in small parcels and high prices are realised. Choice lettuce is fetching good prices but inferior lines are hard to .sell. Carrots, white turnips and parsnips are in good demand and cause keen competition. On account of shortage of green vegetables, marrows and pumpkins still remain firm at good; prices. French beans are arriving in small parcels, and high prices are beI ing realized. Swedes are coming to hand in larger quantities and prices are slightly weaker. mitt tomatoes 1 are coming to hand in small parcels and high prices are realised. Dessert apples are in good, demand at higher values, while cooking apples are fetching high prices. Choice dessert pears are keenly bid lor and high prices | are now being realized. Walnuts are I enquired lor, and a good demand | exists for honey. Wheat.—Good whole luwl os 6d bus. 10-sack lots 5s 4d. Maize.—as 6di per bushel ; best mi- ' ported 5s 9d. Oats.—Feed 3s. (xl per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 3s lOd per bushel. ® Seed oats.—(Australian), Alger- ' i-ans 4s 3d, dre&ed and clipped se, Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s; Duns 4s 6d . per bushel. ! Russian Cape seed barley.— 4s 6d per bushel. Barley, Cape feed.—Js 3d. Barley meal.—£9 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 15a R ice —£7 10b. Bran—£4 15s. Linseed oil cake.—Meal and nuts, genuine, 14s cwt; ton lots £13 10s. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf £5 10s to £6 s pei' ton. Molasses.—ln casks. 28s per scwt. Sucrosine..—£B 10s per ton. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b tins 3s per tin. Potatoes.—£6 10s to £8 per ton. Cabbage.—Choice spring 12? to 14s, ( medium 4s vkl to 5s 6cl per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 15s; med- s in in 8s to 10s per sack. t Carrots—6s to 8s for best; others ; 4s to 5s sack. j Onions- £5 per ton. ; Turnips.—White Is to (is per sack. Leeks.—4d to (id per bundle. Lettuce.—ss (3d to 6s Gd per case. Spinach—3e to 4s per case. Beetroot.—3s to 4s per sack. Spring onions.— 3d to 6d bunch. French beans.—3d to 4d per lb. Marrows.—2s to 3s per case. Swedes 4s 6d to 5s 6d per cwt. Pumpkins.—7s to 8s per sack. T Apples.--Choice dessert 7s to 8s 6d. Apple*.—Cooking 3s to 4s case. Pears. -Choice dessert 9s to 10s per case.

Tomatoes.— Hutt 9s to 10s per cfise. Lemons.—3ss case. Passions.—& per half case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 90's 6jrl to 6^d;; 90's to 100's 6d; baconers s|d; choppers (heavy) 31d to 4d per lb. Honey.—ln 60's 5Jd per lb. Honey sections.— 8s per dozen. Eggs.—2s 6d per dozen. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus.—GJd to 7d per IT). Walnuts.—Bd to 9d per lb. Poultry.—Lip-Tit table hens 3s to 3s 6d; heavy hens 4s to ss; cockerels 3s to 4s; heavy cockerels ;'>s to 6s; heavy ducks 6s 6d to 7s <M ; Indian Runners 3v 6d to 4si 6d per pair; turkey gobblers Is to Is Id per lb. hens lid to It, per lb live -weight.