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Levin Daily Chronicle, 24 March 1917, Page 1

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9 THE NEW ZEALAND FARMERS" CO-< >PJSRATIVE DISTRIB UTING COMPANY', Llftlim WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, March 2. Local potatoes are coming in freoly and considerable supplies are also arriving from the South Island, consequently values are lower. The wheat market remains unchanged, southern merchants quoting Government rate, plus buying commission. Maize is selling freely. Oats are still in short supply and prices have again advanced; there is a good enquiry for all varieties. Pollard and bran are firm at recent rates. There is a good demand for dressed pork. Eggs are still scarce and the price has risen a further threepence per dozen. All poultry is in good demand at satisfactory prices. Vegetables.— Green pears are En good demand and high prices are being realized. Cabbages- are plentiful and selling at low rates. French beans continue to bring good prices. Lettuce meets keen demand at high prices." Swedes are in fair demand. Very few cauliflowers are coming to hand and these meet keen demand. Beetroot and red cabbage are selling well. There is also a good demand for pumpkins and marrows. Parsnips, carrots, spring onions, 'lettuce and celery are in excellent demand. Fruit;— Dessert and cooking apples are still coming in freely and choice lines are in good demand; inferior qualities are slow of sale. Hutt tomatoes have been .plentiful during the week and prices have been very low. Plums of all kinds are in excellent demand. There is fair enquiry for dessert and cooking pears. A good enquiry continues for grapes. Vegetables. Wheat. Good whole Fowl, 6s lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 15s per ton. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt 10s to 12s fid per cwt; others 7s to Bs. White Turnips—Bb per sk. Cabbage.—Choice 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack. ■Beetroot.—6d per bunch. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French beans 2d per lb. Broad beans.- fis to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best 6s per sack. Leeks.- Is 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—Choice 7s to 9s case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring onions.—ls Id per bundle. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bund^. Green peas.—2s per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 9d peir peck. Hutt tomatoes.—2s to 4s per half case. Nelson tomatoes. —3s per half case. Parsnips.—Bs per sack. Asparagus— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Feed 4s 3d per bushel. Oats'.—Crushed'4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats.—Australian : Algerians, dressed and clipped to arrive 4s 9d; others 4s 6d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 6d; Duns 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peas Seed. —6s 6d pel bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed. —5s per bushd. Maize.—ss 6d per bushel. Oatfi. —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 Ducks 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 10s per ton. 100's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the beet and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf £6 per ton. Molasses.—ln casks 30s. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Qyfeklime.—la 281b air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50, and 5a per 251b bag. 3Sjggs.—2s 3d per dozen. Superphosphates, JS& 10s per ton. Candles, 25's 16s 6d per bos. Tea, 6- and 10-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 0d to lOd lb. Cauliflower.—lis to 13s per sack. Onions—£7 10s 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—2s per peck. Marrows.—ss per sack. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle' Fruit. Nectarines.—7s 6d per half case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s 6d per i case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per J case. Apricots—Choice dessert, lis per § case. Swedes.--3s per cwt. Apples 8s per full ease. Apples, cooking.—ss per ful case. Peaches, choice dessert. —6s 6d per half case. Burbank Plume.—3s to 4s per \ case. Greengages.—Bs per half case. Grapes.—ls Id per lb. Nectarines.—6s per half case. . Plums—Blue Diamond 6s per half case; others 5s 6d per half case.-