COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

9 THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKT V REPORT Wellington. Sept. 22. In anticipation of possible importation from Australia tho market for Southern patotoes lias weakened and a fair amount of business lias been passing. Wheat and oats are very firm and business quiet. The nvaize market continues dull and prices being maintainedi. The supply of dressed pork is still considerably short of the demand which continues keen. Honey is scarce. Eggs are in good, demand at last week's rates. Linseed old cake meal i<s bring used in increasing quantities with satisfactory results. Vegetables.—Owing to tlie largely increased de:i:°:ul for military purposes all lines of vegetables are realizing high prices. Cauliflower and cabbage especially have shown a marked advance. Choice lines ol' lettuce cause keen competition. Parsnips, table carrots and white turnips are in very good demand and meet ready sale. Celery. spring onions and leeks are also selling freely. • Swedes are slow. Rhubarb is arriving in increasing quantities and meets excellent demand at satisfactory prices. Fruit :—Choice dessert and cooking apples continue scarce and excellent priccs are realising for well packed lilies. Dessert pears -are eagerly bought up at high rates. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s 5d bus. ten sack lots 5s 4d. Maize— Local grown, 5a per bushel. Oats—Feed, 3s 8d per bushel. Partridge Pea. Seed—7s per bushel. Oats—Crushed, 4s 2d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, 53, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilie, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4s Sd per bushel. Barley Feed.—3« 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per toD. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lots £8. Rice Pollard £7 per ton; small lots £7 ss. Rice Pollard.—£7. Bran.—£s. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. roo'6, 12e; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 pei ton. Mo Basses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. ' Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 28lb air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5a per 251b bag. Superphosphates, JB& 10s per ton. Oandlee, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is Sd; chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes.—£9 10s per ton. Cabbage.— Choice, 8s to 10s; medium -Is to tiis per sack. Cauliflowers.—Choice 18s to 21s; mod initi 10is to 15s per sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—4s to ss;.others 3s to 3s Oc'l. Rhubarb. —18s per dozen bundles. Turnips. White 2s Cd to 3s Od per sack. Lettuce. —2s to 4s rase. Onions, £7 10s per ton. Leeks, 6d to 0d per bundle. Spinach.—3s 4a. Beetroot, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per sack. Spring onions, Is to Is 3d per bunch.. Marrows—3s Gdi to 4is Od pel" case Swedes—2s to 3s-per owt. , Parsnips.—l2s to '15s pel' sack. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10s to 12s oase. Apples.—Dessert, choice 10s to 13s. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 1-ls per case. Lemons.—l6s per case. Rhubarb.—lss to 13s doz bundle*. Peaiw. — Choice dessert, Winter Ne'.is8s to 9s pel' half case. ' Dressed Pork.—7o's to 80' a 6Jd to 7d: 90's to 100's 6}d to 6Jd; baconers 6d: choppers heavy 4d per lb. Honey.— In tiO's Oid to 7d. Eggs.— Fresh Is ■3d to Is 4d , per dozen. BeeswAx.—la 8d oer lb. Fungus.—od to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—Sd per lb. Linseed Oil Oake—Slabs, Meal | and nuts, £11 10s per ton of STOOOIbs. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s "to 4s; Heavy hens 4s 6d to Ss 6d£ Cockerel IK