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Levin Daily Chronicle, 20 February 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. "Wellington, Feb. 16

Supplies of potatoes are still short of requirements and consequently prices continue very firm. The wheat market is unsettled, prices quoted in the South being equal to value fixed iby the Government. Maize is slow of sals. Fair business is being done in oats 3111 prices have hardened. Bran has advanced and pollard is very firm at recent rates. There is ia good demand for dressed pork recent rates being maintained. Eggs are very soarce and the wholesale prices has advanced another penny per dozen since last week Poultry is scarce and in good demand.

Vegetables:—Green peas are in good demand and the best lines cause keen competition. Cauliflowers are in short supply and realise good prices. The demand for cabbage has improved and prices anr higher. French beans are eagerly bought up at high rates. Choice lettuce are selling well but inferior lines a,re hard to quit. Turnips and parsnips are bringing fair prices. Spring onions are in good demand. There is a good enquiry for swedes. Marrows are in teen demand.

Fruit.—Choice dessert apples are in excellent demand, while prices for cookers are fair. Nectarines and peaches are selling well at satisfactory rates. Apricots and greengages are scarce and meet excellent demand. Tomatoes show ia sharp advance, and high prices are being realised. Grapes are in fair demand.

Vegetables. Wheat. 4 —Good whole Fowl, 6s lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel; speoPartridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes—Prime Hutt 14s per cwt, others 9s per cwt. White Turnips—3s per sk. Cabbage—Choice. 3s 6d per sk. Beetroot—4d per bundh. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French J3eans —2Jd per. lb. Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack. Carrots—Best, 5s per sk. Leeks.—ls 3d i>er bundle. Lettuce—Choice, 3s to 8s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring Onions—ls per bundle. Aspnragas.—6d to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—le 9d peir peck. Hutt Tomatoes—ss 6d to 6s 6d per half case. """

Nelson Tomatoes. —5s per half case. Fruit. Parsnips—9s per sik. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 46 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss. others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Dunn, ia 6d per bushel. Partridge Paaa Seed.— 6s 6d per bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Meal.—£7 10s per ton.

Poultry—.Light Table Hens, 3s 6d ; Heavy Hens ss; Cockerels from 3s; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s; Good heavy Ducks 7s; Indian Hunners, 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb ; Hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Brari.—£4 15 per ton.

Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs. Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. IDO's, 12s; sD's, 6s 6d. This is {he best and cheapest Stock Food procurable.

Chaff.—Oaten,Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton.

Mollaisses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per sewt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tiflht tins, Ss per tin.

Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 9d per dozen. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. Oandlee, 25'b 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 19-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lbCauliflower—Choice, 12s per sk. Onions—Local, £8 per ton. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles Turnips.—White, 2s per sack. French Beans.—4s i per part sack. Broad Beans -3d per lb. Green Peas—2s per peck. Marrows—ss per sk. Nectarines—-5s 6d per J case. Cherry Plums Is 6d to 2s 6d per i case.

Apricots—Choice dessert, l'ls per i case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per i case. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle Swedes—2s per owt. Apples.—los per full case, me?fii'm tis per full case. Apples.—Cooking 5s per fu'l case. Peaches— Choice dessert 6s per hali case. Burbank Plums.'—3s to 4s per i case. ■ Greengages— 7s per half case Grapes.—lOd per lb. Nectarines 5s 6d per half case; medium 4e per half ease. "Hums.—Burbank 4s per half case. Plums—Blue Diamond 5s per i-case; others 3s 6d per J-case. Raspberries.—7e per bucket. Lemons—l6s per case. Gooseberries. —3d per lb. Strawberres—ls 6d punnet Cherries. l —Local Choice 2s per lb.

Pears. —Local W. 8.0. choice 'dessert 5p 6d per half case; medium 4s Gd per half case. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Eggs.—.Fresh, le 9d per dozen. Blackberries.—3d per lb." ' Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per i-case. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's 6d; 90's to 100's 6d; ' baconens 5d ; choppers (heavy) 4d per lb. Honey.—sd per lb. Beeswax.—ls 6d p®r lb. Fungus -5d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—9d par lb.