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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 August 1916, Page 1

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TUli NJiW JSiiAL.V.ND FARjJJiiIW CO-OP-Kit ATI VJK DiSTIUBUTINW OOiIPAN V, WEEK/v i Wellington, Auy.JiO. The potato market allows u slightly hi liH'i 1 tendency and supplies appear to be raiiier short. Wheat lias advanced in price and oiuis are it anything slightly tinner. .Uaize is unchanged. There ha* been a further decline in the price ol pollard and brail. There i» an excellent demand for dressed pork and suppliers are short, satisfactory prices being realised. Honey is scarce and keenly enquired for. Eggs have been arriving in large quantities 'uud prices show a considerable drop during the past week. Linseed oil cake meal is being extensively used an a stock tood and ail excellent demand exists. Vegetables.—The demand for cauliflowers continues; good auij. woll packed lines are eagerly bought up at high pi ices. Choice Savoy cabbage is meeting with steady demand at slightly reduced rates. There is a fair demand tor pumpkins and marrows ami choice table, carrots and white turnips are now bringing fair prices. Lettuce is in short supply, and the demand good for choice lines. I'ar.suips are bringing high rateK. Swedes are slow. onions and leeks are selling freely. A good demand exists for celery. Fruit.—There is still a good demand for choice dessert and cooking apples, and the demand exceeds the supply. Good lines of dessert- pears are oagwly bought up at high rates. Walnuts are scarce. Wheat. —Good whole I'owl, 5s 2d 1.0-6k lots 5s Id. Maize— Local grown. 5s per bushel. Oats—Feed. 3s 8d per bushel. Partridge Pea Seed —7s per bushel. Oats—Crushed, 4s 2d per bushel. Seed Oata, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pel bushel. Kussian Barley, Cape Seed—'ls Od per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 8d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per too. Pollard—£B per ton. Rice Pollard £7 per ton ; small lots £7 ss. Bran, £5 5s per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. I'oo's, 12s; 53's. 6s fid. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaif. —Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 pei ton.

MolLusfies.—ln casks. Splendid 6tock food, 28s per oewt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 28lb air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Siip.-i'phoepliMtes, J!fi 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, <j- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d; chests, Is Od to Is lOd lb. Potatoes —Southern, £9 to £9 10s. Cabbage—los to 12s per sack ; medium Oi to is pei- t*tck. Cauliflower—ltia to 18« per sa«k; medium 10s to 12e. Carrots, 4s (id to si» tkl; others 3s tki to 4b Od. Parsnips-—l3s to 14s per sack. Turnips—White, 2s to 3s per sack. Lettuce tis to 8a per cat*;. Onions, £7 10a per ton. Leeks, 6d to 9d per bundle. Spinach, Is 6d to to 2s per case. Beetroot, 3e 6d to 4s (id per sack. Spring onions, Is to Is iid per bunch. -Marrows, 2s (id to 3s 0d per case. Swedes —2s to 3s per uwt. Pumpkins, 6s to 7s per eqek. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10s to 12ci pej case. Apples—Cooking, (is to 8s per case. Pears—Choice dessert (winter -Nelisj 13ti (id to 17s (id - per case. Lemons—£l Is per case. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 80's 6|d to 7d; 90's to 100's GJd to tij[d; baoouers iid; choppers heavy 4d per lb. tloney.—ln 60's 64d. Eggs—Fresh, Is Id per dozen. Eggs—Preserved, la 4d to Is sd. Beeswax.—ls Bd par lb. Fungus—6Jd to 7d per lb. Walnuts-—9d per lb. Linseed Oil Oake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10» per ton ol' 2Qoolb>. 100's, 12s; 50's, (» 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock >food pfbeurable. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s to 4s; Heavy hens 4s 6d to 5s 6d; Cockerels 4s 6d to 5s 6d; heavy Cockerels, 6s to 7t; Good heavy ducks 7e 6d to 8s 6d ; Indian runners 4s to oe per pair; Turkey gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; hens lid to Is per lb lire weight.