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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

TUENEW ZEALAND FARMKK.S' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, This Day l . Supplies of potatoes are - limited; theiro is an excellent demand and prices have hardened. 'Wheat is firm at recent rates. There s >very little business doing in maize, prices (remaining the ame. Oats show a slightly firmer tendency but itlhere i no business passing. Pollard and bran show 110 cbage. Theiro is a good demand for dressed pork and supplies are short. Eggs are soarce and firmer in plice. Poultry is in good demand and fair prices are being realized. Gireen peas are now in better demand and prices have risen. {Regular supplies of French beans are coming to hand and meet with keen competition. Cabbage i coming in more plentifully and prices are lower. Choice cauliflower/ is still scarce and prime lines aire [realizing higli pricesOn account of the long spell of dry weather root vegetables are backward and choice lines arriving meet with good sales at fair prices. Lettuce is plentiful and price lower. There is a fair -demand for spring onions, parsley and. mint. Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 7s bushel. Pollard.—£7 lbs per ton. Oats.-— Feed 4s per bushel; specMaize.—os 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potataes.—£l4 per ton. ♦Prime New Potatoes.—2£d per lb; Medium ljd. Turnips.—White, 2s 6d per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, 6s to 8s • medium as per sack. Maize (is lod per bushel Onions.—£ls per ton. Beetroot.—Bs per sack Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2-Jd per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7sr part sack. Carrots.—Best lis. Leeks.—ls 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—2s to 3s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring ■ onions.—Bd per bunch. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—9d per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Hot House Tomatoees.—ls 6d per lb. Nelson Tomatoes.—2os, per i-case. French Beans.— per lb. Nelson tomatoes.—24s to 25s per case. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed. 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed.—Bs 6d pet bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel.

Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley meal.—£B 10s per toD. Bran.—£4 15 pel* ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6vj Qd. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 los to £6 per ton. MoLLaseos.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw;—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 28Lb air-tiftht tins, 3a per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 6d per dozen. -• Poultry.— Light Table Hens, ss; Heavy Hens, 6s; Cockerels, 6s; heavy Cockerels, 7s to 8e; Good heavy Ducks 9s; Indian Runners, 7s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Candles, 25' a 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 3d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.— 8s to 10s; medium 6s sack. Onions.—£lß per ton. Rhubarb.— 4s to 7s dozen bundles. Turnips.—2e per sack. Spring Onions.—lOd buncli. Marrows.—ss 6d to 7s 6d sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3e to 4a cwt. * Apples.—Desseirt, Choice Sturmers. 15s case. Peaches.—ss to 7s. Red Currants.— 9s to 10s per half case. Black Currants.—7s to 9s per J-case Lemons—l6e per case. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres.—ls 6d punnet Pears.—Choice Vicars 4s 6d to 5s 6d haf case. Cherries.—Local Choice.2s per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per i-case. Apricots.—los to 12s i-case, others 5s to 6s. Dressed Pork.—7o's to 80's 6Ja to 7d; 90's to 100's 6Jd to 6|d; baconers dozen. fieeew&x.—la fld p«r lb. Fungus 5d to 6d per lb. \ Walnuts.—9d per lb.