COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING OOMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPOUT Tlie potato market is still iirm, an 1 owing to tlie prevalence ol blight, ibmipi'i'b aro short as regards* good -'lines. I'll ere is every indication I iia viresent high prices wijl be maintained. Outs also are firm, and quantities oll'orjug are restricted. Wlieat is stationary; pollard audi bran kavo increased slightly in price. Largequantities have recently landed from Australia. Pork is in excellent demand at good prict«. Honey is scarce and keenly enquired tor. Linseed oil meal for stock feeding icj becoming very popular lor ali clasees of stock. Line sulphur solute ion is being largely used as a blight specific with very satisfactory results Vegetables.—Cabbage and cauliflowers are realising very higli prices the demand being good and the supplies short. Carrots and parsnips are selling weil at satisfactory rates. White turnips are plentiful and prices are lower. Marrows -and pumpkins are in good demand andi at fair prices. Swedes are very dull of sale. L' i'uil. —There is an excellent demand for choice dessert and cooking apples at good prices. Choice dessert pears are also keenly competed for at satisfactory rates. Walnuts are scarce and the demand much in excess of the supply.

Wheat.—Good whole Fowl, 5s 4d per bushel. Ten sack lots 5s 2d. Maize. —Local, 5s 3d per bushel. Oats.—'Feed, 3s 9d per bushel. Special quotes for large lots. Oats.—Crushed 3s per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed) and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; G art oils and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duns, Is 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pel bushel. Russian Cape Seed 1 Barley.—6s 6d per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per ton. Pollard.— £8 15s per ton. Small lots £9. Rice Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Bran. —£6 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs. Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's. l'2s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 per ton. Mottoes.—ln casks. Splendid stock iood, 28s per oewt. extra. Straw. —£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight ua<, iii per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b baj£. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candies, 2o's lbs (id per box. Tea, 0- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d i chests, Is Od to Is lOd lb. Potatoes, £3 10s to per ton. Cabbage, choice, 10s to 12;,; medium <jf> to 7s per sack. Cauliflower, choice, lie to 10s; medium 8s to 10s per sack. Carrots, 4s 0d to ss.Od; others 3s Otl to 4s 6d. Turnips, 2s to 2s 6d per bundie. Onions, £7 10s per ton. Leeks, 6d to 9d per bundle. Spinach, Is Gd to to 2s per case. Beetroot, 3*> Od to 4s Od per sack. Spring onions, Is to Is 3d, per buncii. Marrows, 2s (id to 3s (id per case. Swedes, 2s Od to 3s 6d per cvvt.

Pumpkins, (is to 7s per sack. Apples, deesertj choice, (>s to 8s per case. Apples.— Cookiug 4s to 5s per case. Lettuce, 8s to 10s per case. Pears,—Choice dessert 8s to 9s pel" case. Lemons.—l6s per case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to SO's 6id to 7d; 90'e to 100's 6Jd to OJd; baoouvj'is (id; choppers heavy 4d per lb. Honey.—ln 60's ssd. Eggs.—Fresh Is 6d per dozen. Eggp.—Preserved Is 3d to Is 4d Boesw&x.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus—6Jd to 7d per lb. Walnuts.—9d pep: lb. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s to & Cd; heavy hens 4a to ss; cockerels 3a to 4s; heavy cockerels 6s to 7s; good heavy ducks 6s 6d to 7s "6d; Indian Runners 3s 6d to 4s 6d pei' pair"; turkey gobblers Is to Is Id per lb; hens lid to la par »b live weight. NO COLO XSt "NAZOL" PROOF. Hivery Jioiuehold needs "Naaol" toprotect it againat oougha, eolda, influenza and bronchitis. A boon to old and young. 60 doom la 6d. —Ad. Mx J. W. De Bloia, Ranfurly-streoi;, Palmeratcn North, says:—Doan's Back - ache Kidney Pills are a fine remod.v for rheumatism. I have proved this, and am sure, frouo my experience, thats they are quite as good as they arw claimed to be. I suffered from rheiiwho had heard oi a euro oy mnt.ip.m for years, and one day a trie ad Backache Kidney Pills, advised me to try this remedy. 1 got some witjho'.'U delay, and used them with very satisfactory reaults. 1 can laithfully recommend Doan's Backache Kidney A'lin to any other sufferers."