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Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 March 1917, Page 1

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I'HE NEW ZEALAND FAIiMEttS' GO-OPERATIVE JJISTHIBUTINO COMPANY, LIMITED. WEEKLY REPORT. "Wellington, Feb. 23. Potatoes are coming to liand more freely .and prices are easier. Tiie wheat market is uncertain, prices quoted in the south .being generally tqual to the rate fixed by the Government. Oats are firm in price and supplies are short. Seed Algerians particularly are in good _ demand. There ie a good demand for dressed pork at recent rates. Eggs are very scarce and the price has reached 2s per dozen this week. All poultry is in good demand at recent rates.

Vegetables.— Supplies of choice green peas aj - e short ami in very good demand, high values being realized. There is an improved demand for choice cabbage only. A few lines of choice cauliflower are offering and these meeting keen competition. Lettuce is in very good demand. There is fair enquiry for carrots, parsnips and white turnips. jSpring onjions are selling well and marrows are realizing good prices. There is an improved demand for swedes since last report.

Fruit.—Desert ;and cooking apples are plentiful arid prices show a marked decline. Dessert and cooking pears are also selling at low rates. Tomatoes are in fair supply and realizing satisfactory prices. Tliere is a good demand for greengages, nectarines and plums. Grapes meet fair demand at recent rates. Vegetables. Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 6s lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d pet bushel. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt 12s to 13s per cwt; others 7s to 9s per cwt. White Turnips—3s per skCabbage.—Choice 4s per sack; medium 2s 6d per sack. Beetroot.—6d per bunch. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—3d per lb. Broad beans.- 5s to 7s p'ai-t sack Carrots.—Best 3s per sack. Leeks.- Is 3d per bundle. 'Lettuce.—Bs per cast. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—ls Id per bundle. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Green peas. 2s per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 9d par peck. Hutt Tomatoes.— 3s to 5s per half

case . Nelson tomatoes.—3s per half case. Fruit. Parsnips—Bs per sik. Parsnips.—7s per sack. Asparagus — 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartens and Sparrowbillß, 4s; Duns, 4s 6d per buahel.

Partridge Peas Seed.—6s 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed.—ss per bushel. Maize.—ss 6d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 4s 4d per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Meal.—£7 15s per ton. Poultry.—Light Table Hens, 3s 6d ; Heavy Hens ss; Cockerels from 3s: heavy Cockerels 7s to 8s; Good heavy !>ucks 7s; Indian Runners, 6s per pair: Turkey Gobblers, Is to Is Id per lb; Hens, lid to Is per lb live weight. Bran.— £5 10s. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10b per ton. IDO's, 12e; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the best and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Molasses.—ln casks 30s. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 28lb air-tight tins, 3s per tin.

Meat and Bone Meal, 17b per hundred ; 9s per 50, and fm per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 9d per dozen. Superphosphates, £8 10s per ton. Candles, 25'e 16s 6d per bos. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, la 8d: chests, la 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.—l3s per sack. Onions.—iLooal £9 per ton. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles Turnips.—3s per sack. Erenoh Beans.—4s per part sack. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Green Peaa—2a per peck. Marrows.—3s per sack. Nectarines.—sa 6d per i case. Cherry Plums.—la 6d to 2s 6d per J case. - Apricots—Choice dessert, l'ls per 1 case. Burbanl? Plums.—4s to 5s per i case. Asparagaß.—ls to Is 6d bundle Swedes.—3s per lewt. Apples, choice dessert.— 3s to 4s per full case. Apples, cooking.—3s to 4s full case. Peaches—Choice dessert 3s to 4s half case. Burbank Plums.—3s to 4s per J case. Greengages.—Bb per half case. Grapes.—ls per lb. Nectarines.—6s per half case. Plums, October purple.— 6s per half case. Plums, Blue Diamond.— 5s to 6s per half case; others 4e 6d per half oase. Raspberries.—7s per bucket. Lemons—l6s per case. . ' -GoosebeaTies.—3d per, lb. Strawberres—ls 6d punnet '' Oherries.—LocaJ Choice 2s per lb.

P-ears.—W.B.V. choice dessert 4s per half case; medium 2s 9d per half case. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. -Blackberries.—3|d per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3e per i-case. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's 6d; 90's to 100's 6d; baconere sd; choppers (heavy) 4d per lb. Honey.—sd per lb. Beeswax.—ls 6d par lb. Fungus -5d to 6d per Lb. Walnuts.—9d per lb.