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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 October 1916, Page 1

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THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEK! X 3ET»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 he short and importation is still 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*. Dreesed 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 cake 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 is 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 1 5s fid 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. Oarte.—3s 9d per bushel. Special quotations for large lots. Partridge Pea per bushel. Oats—Crushed, 4s 2d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed.—Bs 6d pel bushel. Russian Barley, Cape Seed—4e 6d per bushel. Barley Feed.—3s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10a per ton. Pollard. —£7 15s per ton; small lots £8. Rice Pollard £7 per ton; small lots £7 ss. Rice Pollard.—£7. Branl— £4' 15# to £5. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. 100's, lite; 60's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 10 to £6 per ton. Mollasses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28a per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tins, 3s par tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per SO, and 6a per 251b Bag. Superphosphates, JB& 10s per ton. Dandles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is Sd: chests, la 6d to Is lOd lb. Potatoes.—£9 10b per ton. ' Cabbage.—Choice 7s to 10s; medium 4s to 4s 6d. Cauliflower.—Choice 14s to 18s; medium 6s to 10s 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 10s per ton. Leeks.—od to 8d per bundle. Spinach.—3s to 4s. Beetroot.—ss to 7s 6d per sack. Spring onions.—9d to le 2d bunch. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedes—3e to 4s cwt. . Parsnips.—-10s to 15s per Back. Apples—Dessert, choice, 10s. to 12s per oase. Apples.—Dessert, choice 10s to 13s. ' Apples.—Choice dessert 12s to 14s per , case. Lemons —16s per <:ase. .Rhubarb. —'10s to 13s dozen bundles. Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Dressed Pork.— 7<ys to 90's 6|d to 7d; 90' a to lOO 1 * 6|d to 614; baooners 8d; chopper* heavy 4d per lb. Honey.— In 60's 6|d to 7d. I life ph. — Fresh Is 3d to Is 4d pi

dozen. Beeswax.—la 8d per lb. Fungus. 5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts—9d pen: lb. Linseed Oil Cake—Slabs, Meal and nuts, £11 10s per ton of 2000Ibs. 100's, 12s; 50*8, 6a 6d. This is the best and cheapest stock food procurable. Poultry.—Light- table hens 3s to 4s; Heavy hena 4s 64 to 5s 6d, Cockerels Is 6d to 5s 6d; haary Cockerels, 6s to 7a; Good heavy ducks 7s 6d to 8s 6d; Indian runners 4s to 5a per pair; Turkey gobblers, ]* to Is Id per lb; henr lid) to Is per lb ihr« waigb*.