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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 October 1916, Page 1

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THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKTV i7E:"'ORT N.Z, FARMERS' DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington October 20. Potatoes have shown a considerable l advance in price sine© last report; supplies in the south appear to be short and importation is still going on from Australia. W r heat 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 ami good business is doing. Dressed pork is still in 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 en.ke 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 short supply and selling at high rates. There i« 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 scarcc and eagerly bought up at

high prices. The alterations in prices from last (reek are as follow:— Wheat.—Good whole fowl, 5s sdi to 5s 6c] per "bushel. Asparagus.—ls to Is 6d per bundle. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 5s 5d bus ten sack lots 5s 4d. Maize—Local grown. 5s per bushel. Oats.—3s 9d per bushel. Spceial for large lots. Partridge Pea Seed —7s per bushel. Oats—Crushed., 4e 2d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, Iresscd and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Jarton.s and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Dun*, 4s id per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei iushel. Russian Barley, Capo Seed—4s 8d per )ushel. Barley Feed.—3g 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per tcD. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton; small lots i iB. , Rice Pollard £7 per ton; email lots ; 27 ss. Rice Pollard.'—£7. Bran.—£4 15s to £5. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Juts, £11 10a per ton. TOO's, 12a; < O's, 6s 6d. This is the beet and cheapst Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Shoaf, £5 10 to £6 pei on. Mollfttses.—ln casks. Splendid stock ood, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10a per ton. Quicklime.—ln 28lb air-tight tins, 3s ier tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Superphosphates, £8 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 3d: :hests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes.—£9 10s per ton. Cabbage.—Choice 7s to 10s; medium 1b to 4s 6d. Cauliflower. —Choice 14s to 18s; melium 6s to 10s per sack. Onions. —£9 10s per ton. Carrots.—Best 9s to 12s; others 4s 3d 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 pet ton. Leeks. —od to 8d per bundle. Spinach.—3s to 4s. Beetroot.—ss to 7s 6d per saok. Spring onion6.—9d to Is 2d bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3s to 4s cwt. Parsnips.—los to 15s per sack. Apples—Dees art, choice, 10s to 12s per case. Apples.— Defisert, choice 10s to 13s. Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per case. Lemons—l6s per case. Rhubarb.—'los to 13s dozen bundles. Peivrs.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Dressed Pork.—7o*B to 90's 6id to Td; 90's to 100's 6Jd to 6|d; baooners 6d,; choppers heavy 4d per lb. Honey.— In 60's 6id to 7d. ; Eggs.— Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d pe T

dozen. JBeeawax.—ls 6d per lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb. Linseed Oil Cake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10s per ton of 20001bs. 100's, 12e; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poultry. — Light table hens 3s to 4s; He:ivy hons 'Is 6d to 5s 6rl ,• Cockerels 4s 6d to 5s G'l; hesvy Coekorols, to 7s; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Indian runners 4s to 5s per pnir; Turkey t?ol)blem, to Is Id per lb; hen? lid) to Is per lb Ist* wniith'..