COMMERCIAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 May 1916, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

* WAJiIvAX AE STOCK. SALdS. .\JLc.ssrs Dalgetj and Company Limited, Wellington, report having Ue»d thoir Uaikanue stock sale la,sit Tuesday, the 16th instant, when tiioy oiler, ed a medium yarding of both she\p and cattle. JSsception&lly goodl competition took place far all 'lote of fat Kiheep and cattle whioh came under tlio hammer. Store sheep were aaso well cojipoted (or. Our principal sales were as under:— Sheep.—Fat wethers 29« Od to 30s, poor conditioned store ewes 13s • d.; Biniali fchorn Taunts 10s '2d. Cattle.—Forward 3-year old steers £11; fonvard empty cows £5, £C 2b 6u to £0 os; store.cows £3 10s to £1. There was a good diemand for dairy istock, and cows close to profit, of whioh wo had « large entry, made £7 2s Gd, £0 os, £9 106, £11 5b to £12.

rHI NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' UA-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LTD. Choice cabbage and cauliflowers are in hotter bU'pply, lettuce are arriving -n small lots and bring high prices. Oarrots, white turnips and parsnips are meeting with good demand at satisfactory rates. Marrows and pumpkins arc plentiful. French beans meet keen Leeks, spring onions and celery are celling well at satisfactory pricos. Swedes are enquired for. Fruit. —The tomato seas en is about done, but small consignments of well graded lines bring good pricos. Choice dessert apples are in good diemand and cooking apples are in better demand at fair prices. ..'Dessert pears are meeting steady sale at recent rates. Walnuts are enquired for, chesnute are plentiful. Potatoes are slightly firmed in price and North Island merchants "are buy-

infi freely. Wheat audi oats are firm 'at recent rates. Pollard. ;is etiil scarce and bran is in fair supply. Oh ait is Belling weld. Pork is in fan 1 supply .ind , good prices are being realised. Honey !is wanted. Molasses tor stock feed Lug is in very good demandi. Linseed oil oake is being ueed by farmers in increasing quantities throughout the province for all classes ot stock. Owing to the prohibitive price of Cooper Sulphate (about BUb per cwt.), Lime Sulphur Solution is ibeing largely isod as a blight specific with very satisfactory results. Mrs Cross, who is a canvasser lor the Wounded Soldiers' Fund (in -onnection with the Carnival Queen Competition of Lower Hutt Valley) is now ;n Levin. She is taking up Biubscriptions to tliis worthy object, and in support thereof she will make a ranviss of the whole town, concluding her work bv Wednenday evening. Mrs Cross has •been in Palmerston North, wthere hearty support was accorded to her mission, i