COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 July 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THIS NEW ZEALAND i r A_RMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington July 21

Tlie potato nnukut hats been very duli during the past tfeok and prices have deciiued slightly. Tiler© is very little business doing in oate, whch show u slightly «eaker tone. Wheat is iiiin at recent rates and lair business doing. I'oilard and bran are steady at last week's rates. An excellent demand exists for prime dressed pork and -good prices are being realized;. Tlie market is practically bare of honey which is keenly enquired for. Linseed oil meal for stock feeding is in good demand. Cabbage, cauliflower and lettuce continue to realize high prives and are in short supply. Carrots and white turnips are plentiful and prices Jower. Parsnips are in good diemand and larger supplies would meet ready sale, sale. Swedes are plentiful and prices low. Tomatoes arrived in large quantities from ltaratonga, but only firstclass lines met with good demand. Choice dessert appies are scarce, and meet ready sale at high prices. Cooking apples also are in short supply, and there is keen competition for well-packed lines. Choice dessert v &iB are realisiDg fancy price Walnuts are soarce and keenly enquired for. 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. Oots—Crushed, 4s 2d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrow-bills, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s fid pel bushel. Russian Cape Seed' 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, 12s; 50' a. 6s Gd. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £8 pel ton. MoUasses.—ln casks. Splendid 6tock food, 28s per ocwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and os per 251b bag. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, (i- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d; chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes, £8 10s to £9 per ton. Cabbage, choice, 10s to 12s; medium 0s to 7s per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 14b to 10s; medium 8s to 10s per sack. Carrots, 4s 6d to 5s (id; others 3s Gd. to 4s 6d. Turnips, 2s to 26 (id per bundie. Onions, £7 10s per ton. Leeks, 6d to 9d per bundle. Spinach, le 6d to to 2s per case. Beetroot, 3s (id to 4a fcid per sack. Spring onions, Is to Is 3d per- bunch. Marrows, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per case. Swedes, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per owt. Pumpkins, i» to 7s per sack. Apples—Dessert, Choice, 12s f o 14s pei* case. Apples—Cooking,6s to 8s per case. Lettuce, 8s to 10s per case. Pears—Choice Dessert, 10s to 12s por case. Lemons—£l Is per case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 80's 6Jd to 7<l; 90's to 100's 6Jd to 6Jd; baoonars (id; choppers heavy 4d per lb. Honey.—Jn 60's 5Jd, Eggs.—Freeh Is 6d per dozen. Eggp.—Preserved Is 3d to Is 4d Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus—6sd to 7d per lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s to 3e (id; heavy hens 4s to ss; cockerels 3s to 4s; heavy cockerels 6s to 7s; good heavy ducks 6s 6d to 7s 6d; Indian Runners 3s 6d to 4a 6d per pair; turkey gobblers Is to Is Id per lb; hen» lid to Is per jib live weight.