COMMERCIAL.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 August 1917, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

, • THE NR'.v ZEALAND FARJV!ICRS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTIXO COMPANY, biiVUTVUV WEEKLY REPORT. Weliiii-ai'J' The inarket Ll ' well supplied with potatoes, but prices are remaining about the same. Wheat has in accordance with the Government arrangements advanced id per bbshel. On account of shortage of space from Australia oats are very firm. Maize is fairly plentiful m cent prices being maintained. and pollard are still hard t„ ojuuh and the market is very firm. Tlu imported eggs are about exhausted aiul local supplies are inclined to rise i:i price. Dressed pork is still (.-ouring forward skvvly and all lines nieut with good demand. Poultry is eagerly sought after.at satisfactory prices. Cabbages are coming forward a little more freely and are meeting with good prices. Cauliflowers are. scarce and good lines are .realizing high prices. Only hothouse beans are now available and these bring record prices. Fair lines of lettuce have been coming forward! tod prices are in accordance. The supply of swedes is satisfactory arid fair' prices are ruling. Pump-1 kins are short but marrows are in good supply. Parsnips and carrots still met with ready sale, also beetroot, celery and spring onions. Choice lines of dessert apples are bringing high prices but as the quality of cooking apples ooining forward has boen inferior in many cases prices are much lower. Choice lines of cooking and dessert pears have been scarce and recent rates are being upheld. Grapes are in very short supply. j Potatoes.—Prime , Hutt £6 to £6 10s. Cabbage.—Clioice, 10s per sack. i Cauliflower.—2os to 255. CSarrots—Best ss. Onions.—Local £11 10s per ton. Turnips.—White 5s per sack. Lettuce.—Choice 2s to 6s. per case. French beans.—lid per lb. Parsnips.—7s 6d per sack. . (Marrows 3s to 4s per sack. Swedes.—3s 6d to 4s 6d' per s®ck. Hutt tomatoes.—l4s per 'half case. Pumpkins.— 5s to 6s Gd per sack. Artichokes.— ljd per lb. Celery.—ss per dozen. Leeks.—Bd to Is per bundle. Kumeras.'—Ba to 10s per case. Apples.—Dessert 7s Cd to 9s per case Apples.—Cooking 3s 6d to 6s. Grapes.— r2s 6d per lb. Pears—Local W.8.C., choice desBert 8s to 10s per half case. Pears.—Cooking 7s 6d pe/ case Pollard.—£B 10s per ton. Carrots.—Best 6s 6d per sack. . French beans.—-2d per lb. Beetroot.—Bs per sack. Spring onions.—Bd per bundle. Green peas.—ls 9d per peck. Butt tomatoes.—4s per half case Nelson, tomatoes.—3s 6d per half case Hutt Rhubarb. '10s per dozen. Apples.—Choice dessert 7s per half case.

Apples—Cooking 4s to 5s per - full case.

Grapes.—2s 6d per lb. Pears—Local W.B.C. choice dessert 9s to lis per half case. Pears.—Cooking 9s per full case. Wheat.—Good whole fowl 6s 9d to 6s lOd per bushel. Maize.—ss 9d per bushel. , Oats— Feed 4s 6d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed 4s. 9d per bushel. , Oats.—Crushed, 4s 9d per bushel. '• Seed) Oats.—Australian.—Algerians dressed and clipped, to arrive ss; others 4s 9d; Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s 9d; Duns 4s 9d per bushel. Russian barley, Cape Seed.— 6s per bushel. Barley, feed—ss per bushel. Barley meal.—£7 15s per ton. Pollard.—£B per ton. Bran.—£s 10s per ton. Linseed oil cake.—Slabs, meal and . nuts £13 per ton of 20001bs; 100's 13s; 50's 6s 9d. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf £7 per ton. Molasses. In casks, 28s per cai-k. Straw.—£4 per ton ex store. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's 6sd; 90's to 100's 6d; baconers sd<; chopper? (heavy) 3d to 4d per lb. Honey—sd to 6d per lb. Tggs.—Fresh 2s 9d per dozen. Meat and bona meal.—lßs per 100. 10s per 50; and 5s 6tl per 251b bag. Greengages.—Bs per half case. Grapes.—ls 6d per lb. Nectarines—6s per half case. Plums.—3s 6d per lialf case. Blackberries.—3d per lb. Gooseberries.—3d per lb. Strawhorres.—ls Gd punnet Cherries.—Local Choice 2s per lb. . Pears.—Local W.B.C. ohoico dessert 3s 6d per half case. Medium 2s 6d per half case. Pollard.— £7 15s to £8 per ton. Blackberries.—3Jd per lb. ' Cherry Plums.—2s to 3s per J-caso. Honey—6d per lb. Bwt'n-ox.—l* 3d V sr p,. Fundus 5d to 6d per !'j. Walnuts.—9d ~<»r IS. Dreised pork 70's to 90's, 6d to 6Jd; 90's to 100's, 6(1 ; Baconers, sd: Choppers (heavy), 3d to 4d per lb. Our weekly pork sales held each Wednesday evenings or Thursday Thursday. Pigs should arrive on noon. "Blue Bell" Arsenate of Lead.—At list rates. "Blue Bell" Liino Sulphur.—2s per gallon, in casks. Vapourite (Straw son'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 6d to 2s lb.