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Levin Daily Chronicle, 28 April 1917, Page 1

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o THE MEW FAEMERS' CX)-(>PERATIVIi DISTRIBUTING (X>VrPAXV, UiL'TRD. WEEKLY REPORT. WELLINGTON, April 20. The potato market is firm at recent rates, and good business is doing. No change is apparent in wheat values. Maize is in good demand and prices remain firm. Fair business is doing in oats at recent quotation,s. Pollard is still very scarce, and firm in price. Bran is in good supply. The supply of eggs has improved and the prices show a slightly weaker tendency. Poultry, is in excellent demand. There is good enquiry for dressed pork at satisfactory prices, and much larger supplies could be disposed. Linseed -oil cake meal is being extensively used for. stock with satisfactory results. An exellent demand exists for all classes of vegetables, which are now in fair supply. Choice green peas are

scarce and realizing high prices. Cabbages and cauliflowers are in better supply and prices have declined. Good ■ lines of French beans are selling well and lettuce is in good demand. Swedes are in fair supply and realize satisfactory rates. Pumpkins and marrows are plentiful. Carrots and parsnips are scarce and realize high prices. Beetroot, spring onions, leeks and celery are in good demand. Dessert and cooking apples are arriving freely and prices are easier. Tomatoes are scarce and bring high prices. Choice dessert and cooking pears are coming forward more freely and meet with good demand. Grapes are selling well. Quinces are in good supply and bring fair prices. Potatoes.—Prime Hutt £7 to £7 10s per ton. Cabbage.— Choice 7s 6d per sack. Carrots.—[Best 6s 6d per sack. Onions.—Local £8 10s per ton. Turnips.—White 10s per sack. Lettuce.—Choice, 5s 6d per case. French beans.— 2d per lb. (Beetroot.—4jd per bunch. Spring onions. 6d per bundle. ..Green peas.—ls 9d per peck. Parsnips — 9s per sack. Marrows.'—3s per sack. _ Swedes.—4s bo~4s on - pex -civ t.. -"■xutttru-»«»«crtoes-.==4s-per _ iiarr" case •Nelson tomatoes.—3s 6d per half case Apples.—Choice dessert 6s 6d to 7s 6d per full case. Apples.—Cooking 4s to 5s per full case. Grapes.—ls 2d per lb. Pears.—Local choice dessert 4s 6d per half case; medium 3s 6d. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 6s 9d to 6s lOd per bushel. Maize.—ss 6d per bushel. Oats.—'Feed 4s 6d per bushel. Spec- . ial quotes for large lots. Oats. 4s 9d per bushel. Seed oats.;— Algerian, dressed janU. clipped, ss; others 4s 7d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 8d; Duns 4s 9d. Russian barley, Cape seed.—6s per bushel. Barley, feed.—os per bushel. Barley meal.— £7 los per ton. Pollard.—£B per ton. Bran.—£s 10s per ton. Linseed oil cake. Slabs, meal and nuts £13 per ton of 2000 lbs. 100'e13s; 50's 6s 9d. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf £6 to £6 10s petton. Molasses.—ln casks : 28s per cask. Straw.—£3 10s per ton ex store. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's 6Jd ; 90\s to 100's, 6d; baconers 5d ,• clioppcrs (heavy) 3d to 4d per lb. Honey.—sd to 6d per lb. IJggs.—Fresh.—2s 8d to 2s 9d. Meat and bone meal.—lßs per 100; 10s per 50; and 5s 6d per 251b bag.

Greengages.—Bs per half case. Grapes.—ls 6d per lb. -Nectarines—6s per half case. Plums.—3s 6d per half case. Blackberries.—3d per lb. Gooseberries, —3d per lb. Scrawberrea.— Is (id punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. Pears.—Local W.B.C. choice desser 3s 6d per half case. Medium 2s 6d pe: half case. Pollard.— £7 los to £8 per ton. Blackberries.—3Jd per lb. Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per i-case Honey.—6d per lb. * ( Boeawax—ls 8d per lb. Fungus od to 6d per lb. Walcuta.—3d «er lb. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's, 6d tc 6Jd; 90's to 100's, 6d; Baconers, 5d Choppers (heavy), 3d to 4d per lb! Our weekly pork sales held leach Wednesday evenings or Thursday | Thursday. Pigs should arriive on noon. ".Blue Bell" Arsenate of Lead.—At list rates. "Blue Bell" Lime Sulphur.—2s per gallon, in casks. - Vapourite (Strawson's).— Kills all soil insects, 25s per cwt.; 15s per ,-cwt Basic Slag.—£7 '10s per ton. Superphosphate.—£7 5s per ton. Waingawa Manures and W.M.E. Coy's, as per price list. Tea.—s and 101b boxes, Is 8d to 2s 2d; Chests, Is Gd to 2s lb.