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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8336, 19 January 1907, Page 7

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WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. (Special to Age). The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: —Maize 4s per bushel. Wheat 3s lid per bushel, firm. Oats, prime feed, 2s 9d per bushel. Barley feed 3s 3d per bushel. Linseed, whole, £ls per ton. Pollard £6 per ton. Bran £5 per ton.- Pigmeal £5 10s per ton. Prime oaten sheaf chaff £4 per ton at rails. Potatoes, Kidneys £7 10s to £8 per ton, Reds £5 per ton. Onions, Sydney, £8 per. ton. Butter, separator B£d, dairy pats 8d per lb, slow of sale. Honey, 60's, 4dperlb. Eggs, fresh Is 4d per dozen, brisk enquiries. Porkers, 60's to 100's, 4Jd per lb. Bacon, sides 7Jd, hams' BJd, rolls 8d per lb. Cabbage 3s 6d to 4s per sack. Carrots, tabl6, 9d per dozen. Rhubarb 3s per dozen. Tomatoes 4s 6d to 5s 6d per half case. Plums 3s 6d to 4s 6d per half case. Apricots 5s 6d per half case. Cooking apples 4s 6d per case. Poultry—table roosters 4s, cockerels 4s 6d to ss, table hens 3s, ducks 5s .to 6s, geese 6s, all per pair. Turkey gobblers lOd, hens 6d, live weight. Dressed poultry—Roosters 7d, hens sd, turkey gobblers lOd, hens Bd. . . . EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, report on their Eketahuna fortnightly stock sale, yesterday, as follows:—Sheep were well represented, and the quality generally good; but the vendors' reserves were in most cases rather prohibitive, consequently the bulk of the entries did not change hands. Cattle offered in large numbers, but dull of sale, only the best sort in steers and young cattle selling. Good sound ewes made up to 14s, ordinary 10s, culls Bs, lambs (medium) i 7s to Bs, 2 and 3-year steers £3 to £3 12s 6d, yearling to 18-month steers 30s to 395, heifers 25s to 28s, store cows 40s. MARKET 3EPORT. Th 3 following wholesale prices are quoted locally, January 19th, 1906. £ s. d. £ s d. Flour, a'ks U 0 0 Wheatmeal 11 0 0 Pollard 6 10 0 Baled Straw 1 10 0 Chaff— Baled Hay 2 5 0 Best Oaten Barley new 3 10 0 Pearl 18 0 0 Oaten Straw Onions 10 0 0 chaff, new 115 0 Split Peas 18 0 0 Oatmeal 13 10 0 Potatoes newlO 0 0 Bran 5 0 0 „ old 9 0 0 Per BusHEi,. Wheat, fowl 3 6 ' Beans 4 3 Oats, short ..2 8 Bailey,feed 3 0 Oats long ~2 8 Blue Peas ' 4 0 Oats, dun ..2 8 Peas 3 ,6 Maize \ ..4 0 , Per lb. Hams .. 8 Bacon 7 \ Cheese 6| W.F.C.A. report - Butter— Eggs Is Dairy 81