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Levin Daily Chronicle, 24 February 1917, Page 1

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Tim NISW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTIONS COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, Feb. 16. Supplies of potatoes are still short of requirements and consequently prices continue very firm. Tlie wheat market is unsettled, prices quoted in the South being equal to value fixed by tlie Government. Maize is slow of sale. Fair business is being done in oats m i prices have hardened. Bran has advanced and pollard is very firm at recent. rates. There is a good demand for dressed pork recent rates 'being maintained. Eggs are very scarce 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 axe 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 infcre 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 keen demand.

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

Vegetables. - Wheat. .Good whole Fowl, 6s lOd to 7s.

Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Oats.'— Feed 4s per bushel; specPartridge 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 bunch. Pumpkins. 14s -per sack French Beans -2}d per lb. Broad beans.- 5s to 7s part sack. Carrots -Best, 5s per sk. Leeks.— Js 3d per 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.—ls 9d peir peck. Hutt Tomatoes—ss 6d to 6s 6d per lialf case. Nelson Tomatoes.—ss per half case. Fruit. Parsnips—per sk. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus — 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oata, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, se, others 4s 3d; Gortons and SparrowbiDs, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Poas Seed.—6s 6d pei

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 6cl; Heavy Hens ss; Cockerels from 3s; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s; Good heavy I>uoks 7s; Indian Runners.. 6s per pair; Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Bran—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. XOO's, 12s; 50's, 6s fid. Thia Is the best and cheapen t Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Molineees.—ln cask*. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10a per lon. Quicklime.—ln 281b air-tight tins, 8s per tin.

Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5a per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 9d per dozen. Superphosphates, £8 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, la 8d: chesta, Is 6d to Is lOd lb.

Cauliflower—Choice, 12s per sk, Onions—Local, £8 per ton.

Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles Turnips.—White, 2s per sack. French Beans.—4s per part sack. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Green Peas—2a per peck. Marrows—ss per sk. Nectarines.—ss 6d per i case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s 6d per 1 case. Apricots—Choice dessert, lis per J case.. Burbank Plume 4s to 5s per i case. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle Swedes—2s per cwt. Apples—los per full oase, medrnn 6s per full case. Apples.—Cooking 5s per fivl case. Peaches.— Choice dessert 6s per halt case. Burbank Plums.—3s to 4s per \ case. Greengages— 7s per half ca3e Grapes.—lOd per lb. Nectarines 5s 6d per half case; medium 4s per half case. Finns.—Burbank 4s per half case. Plums.—Blue Diamond 5s per l-cnse ; others 3s 6d per i-case. Raspberries.—7s per bucket. Lemons —16s per cum. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres—ls 6d punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb.

• Pears.—Local "W. 8.0. choice dessert sf. 6d per half case; medium 4s 6d per half case. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. iiggs.—'Fresh, Is 9d per dozen. ■Blackberries.—3d per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3e per 4-ease. Dressed pork 70's to 90's 6d; 90's to 100's Gd; baconers sd; choppers (heavy) 4d per lb. Houey.—sd pea - lb. Hee*w&x.— Is ttd per lb. Fungus 5d to fid per lb. Walnuts.—por lb.