COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 October 1916, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

TTIR NEW ZEALAND FARMERS-CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEE7I ,7E'ORT N.Z. FARMERS' DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington October 20. Potatoes have shown a considerable advance in price since last report; supplies in the south appear to be short and importation is etill going on from Australia. Wheat and oats are firm at recent rates. There has been a sharp advance in the price of maize. The prices of pollard and bran are being maintained and 1 good business is doing. Dressed pork is still m short supply and the demand keen. Supplies of honey are now available and there is a fair demand. Eggs continue to be in excellent demand and prices show no change. Lincseed oil caJce for stock feeding is being used in increasing quantities with satisfactory results. There is an abundant supply of spring cabbage arriving and values have declined. Choice cauliflowers are in 6hort supply and selling at high rates. There i 6 an excellent demand for choice lettuce and high prices are ruling. Swedes are now selling well. Parsnips, table carrots, and white turnips meet good demand at satisfactory rates. Celery, spring onions and leeks meet ready sale. The demand remains good for rhubarb which is fairly plentiful. Choice Nelson green peas are now arriving daily and meet good demand. Choice dessert and cooking apples are in excellent demand and high prices are being maintained. Fruit.—Choice dessert and cooking apples are in good demand and high prices are ruling. Choice pears are very scarce and eagerly bought up at high prices. The alterations in prices from last week are as follow:— Wheat.—Good whole fowl, 5s sdi to 5s 6d per bushel. Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat.—Good Tfhole fowl 5s 5d bus. ten sack lots 53 4d. Maize—Local grown. 5s per bushel. Oaits.—3s 9d per bushel. Special quotations for large lots. Partridsro Pea Seed—7s per bushel. Oats—Crushed., ■ 4s 2d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbiliß, 4s; Duns, 4s fid per bushel. Partridge Pcyis Seed.—Bs 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley, Capo Seed—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£3 10s per ton. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lote £8. Rice Pollard £7 per ton; email lots £7 ss. Rioe Pollard.—£7. Bran.—£4 15b to £5. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. 100's, 12s; BO'a, 6s fid. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 pei ton. Mollasses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10a per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Superphosphates, JBB 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to la lOd lb. Potatoes.—£9 10s per ton. Cabbage.—Choice 7s to 10s; medium 4b to 4s 6d. Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6s to 10b per sack. Onions.—£9 10s per ton. Carrots:—Best 9s to 12s; others 4s 6d to 5s 6d sack. Rhubarb.—lßs per dozen bunches. Turnips. White 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack. Lettuce.—4s to 6s case. Onions, £7 10a pei ton. Leeks.—sd to 8d per bundle. Spinaoh.—3s to 4a. Beetroot.—ss to 7s 6d per saok. Spring onions.—9d to Is 2d bunch. Marrows.—s6 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3e to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los to 15s per sack. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10s to 12s per oase. Apples.—Dessert, choice 10s to 13s. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per case. Lemons—l6s per case. Rhubarb.—'los to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Dreased Pork.—7o's to 90's 6Jd to 7d ; 90's to 100's 6)d to 6|d: baoone-e 6d; choppers heavy 4d per lb. Honey.— In 60's 6£d to 7d. g Eggs.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d pt?"

dozen. J Beeswax.—la 0d par lb. Fungus 5d to tid per lb. Walnuts.—Pd per lb. j Linseed Oil Cake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10a per ton of 20001bs. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6a 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s to 4s; Heavy hens 4« 6d to 5s 6d; Cockerelfl 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; h-Jitvy Cockerels, 6s to 7s; Oood heavy ducks 7s 6d t-o 8s 6d; Indian manors 4-8 to 5a por pair; Turkey gobblers, Is to la Id per !b; hen? lid !-* Tvi* IS Vv* troijrht. | 1