COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS-CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, May a. Potatoes are steady at recent rates. Wheat and oats are stationary, and a fair demand exists. Pollard is scarce and prices are firmer. Chaff is still selling well at recent rates. Pork is in very good demand, and larger supplies can be dealt with. Sucking pigs have been arriving in large numbers, and as the demand is limited, prices will suffer a big drop if the suppiy continues or increases. Honey is wanted. Molasses for stock feeding is in good demand owing to the shortage. Cabbage is fetching high prices and supplies are limited. Choice oaaliflowers are in short supply and realizing high prices for well packed lines. A good demand exists for choice ett.uce. but inferior lines are hard to quit. Very few swedes are offering, and high rates are ruling. Parsnips are in good demand andir fai prices are realized. Carrots and white tur-, nips are .in good flemand. Marrow and pumpkins are arriving in large quantities and prices are iower. Spring onions, leeka and celery are in good supply. French beans are keenly bid for and bring high prices. tomatoes are realizing n,igli prices and only email parcels are arriving. Choice dessert apples and pears are keenly sought tor, and ' igh prices are ruling. Walnuts and chestnuts are enquired for. Wheat.—Good whole towl 5s 6d bus. 10-sack lots 5s 4d. Maize.—ss 6di per bushel; best imported 5s 9d. Oats.—Feed 3s 6d per oushel. Oats.—Crushed 3s lOd per bushel. Seed oats—(Australian), Algerians 4s 3d, diesed and clipped ss, Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s; Duns 4s 6d pei- bushel. Russian Cape seed barley.— 4s 6d per bushel. Barley, Cape feed.—4s 3d. Barley meal.— £0 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 15s Rice pollardu—£7 10s. Bran—£4. 15s. Linseed oil cake.—Meal and nuts, genuine, 14s ewt; ton lots £13 10s. Chaff Oaten sheaf £5 10s to £6 per ton. Molasses.—ln casks, 28s per scwt. tiucrosine.—£B 10s per ton. Straw.—£3 10a per ton. (Quicklime.—ln 281b tins 3s per tin. Potatoes.—£6 10s to £8 per ton. Cabbage.—Choice spring 13s to 14s, medium 4s ud to as 6d per sack.

Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 15b; medium 8s to 10s per sack. Carrots.—6s to 8s tor best; others 4s to I>s saok. Onions— £5 per ton. Turnips.—White 4s to tis per sacn. Leeks.—4d to 6d per uun-dle. Lettuce.—ss 6d to 6s od per case. Spinach—3a to 4s per case. Beetroot.—Bs 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 5e 6d per cwi. Pumpkins.—7s to 8s per sack. Apples.—-Choice dcesert 7s 'to 8s Qd. Apple*.— Cooking 3s to 4s case. Pears.—Choice deissert 9s to 10s per case. * Tomatoes.— Hutt 8s to 10s'-per oase. Lemons.—3sa case. Passions.—6s per half case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 90's 6jd to 6Jdi; 80's to 100's 6d; baconers ojd > choppers (heavy) Sid to 4d per lb. Honey.—ln 60' a s|d per lb. Honey sections.—Bs per dosen. Eggs.—2s 6d per dosen. Beeswax.—lb 6d per lb. Fungus.—6|d to 7d per 18. TValnuta.—Bd to 9d per lb. FDultry.—Light table hens 3s to 3s 6d; heavy hens 4s to ss; cockerels Ss to 4s; heary cockerels 5s to 6s ; heavy ducks 6e 6d to 7s 6)3; Indian Runners 3» 6d to 4s 6d per pair; tnrkey gobblers Is to Is Id per lb. hens lli to It-, per lb live weight.