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Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1917, Page 1

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THE N EW ZEALAND FARMERS" CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTDMti 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 by the Government. Maize is slow of sale. Fair business is being done in oats dili 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 scarce and the wholesale prices lias 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 k£en 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 aire 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. Aprioots and greengages are scarce and meet excellent demand. Tomatoes slhow ia sharp advance, and high pricfes 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; 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 buncih. Pumpkins. 14s per sack •French Beana ~2§d per lb. Broad beans.- 5s to 7s part sack Carrots -Best, 5s per sk. Leeks.- Is 3d per bundle. Lettuce—Choice, 3s to 8a 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 petr peck. Hutt Tomatoes—ss 6d to 6s 6d per half case. Nelson Tomatoes.—ss per half case. Fruit. Parsnips—SJp per sk. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus — 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed ©at«, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gortons and Sparrowbitis, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa 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 6d; Heavy Hens ss; Cockerels from 3s; heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s; Good heavy Ducks 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. TOO's, 12a; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Mollasses.—ln casks. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 281b air-tight tana, 3s per tin.

Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred; 9s per 50, and 5s 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, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Ts lOd lb.

Cauliflower—Choice, 12a 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 Peaa—2s per peck. Marrtjws—ss per sk. _ Nectarines.—ss 6d per J case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s 6d per i case. Apricots—Choice dessert, lis per 4 case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per } case. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle Swedes—2s per cwt. Apples.—los per full case, medn in 6s per full case. Apples.—Cooking 5s per fori case. Peaches.— Choice dessert 6s per hsti case. Burbank Plums.'—3s to 4s per \ case. Greengages— 7s per half caio Grapes.'—lOd per lb. Nectarines.—ss 6d per half case; medium 4s per half case. V ums.—Burbank 4s per half case. Plums—Blue Diamond 5s per i-case; others 3s 6d per i-case. Raspberries.—7s per bucket. Lemons—l6s per case. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawberres. —Is 6d punnet Cherries. —Local Choice 2s per lb.

Pears.— Local W. 8.0. choice dessert oe Gel per half case; medium 4s 6d per half case. Pollard.—£7 los per ton. Eggs.—'Fresh, Is 9d per dozen. Blackberries.—3d per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per J-case. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's 6d; 90's to 100's 6d; bacon ens sd; choppers (heavy) 4d per lb. Honey.—sd per lb. Beeswax.—ls (kl per lb. Fungus 3d to 6d per lb. Walnuts.—Bd per lb.