GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8864, 25 October 1907, Page 7

GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT.

Special to the Wairarapa Age. The New* Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: —Maize 5s 3d per bushel, scarce. Wheat, prime whole fowl, 5s 9d, rising. SVheat, second quality, 5s 3d. Oats, prime feed, 4s 3d, firm. Oats, crushed, 4s 6d per bushel. Pollard £7 5s per ton. Bran £6 5s per ton. Sucrosiflfc/ 200*s 14s, 100's 7s 6d per bag. Prime oaten sheaf chaff £5 15s at rails. Potatoes, New Zealand £6 10s per ton for good lines, market much firmer. 'Potatoes, seed Australian, Up-to-Dates, £7. Potatoes, ssed Canterbury, Up-to-Dates, Early Rose, Beauty of Hebron, Northern Star, White Star, from £4 to £6 per ton. Onions £lO 10s per ton, firm. Butter, separator 9d, milled B£d, dairy pats 9d per lb. Eggs, fresh. Is 2d per dozen, scarce. Honey, 60's, 4£d per lb, wanted. Beeswax Is 6d per lb. good demand. Fungus 4|d per lb. Walnuts 5d to 6d per lb. Porkers, 70's to 90's sd, 90's to 100's 4sd, heavy pigs 3£d to 4d, good demand. Cabbage 6s to 8s per sack, good demand. Cauliflower, j 8s to 12s per sack, good demand. Green peas 2s per peck, good c«raand. Asparagus 6s to 7s per dozen lib bundles. Rhubarb 5s per dozen. Carrots, table Reds, 6s per sack. Carrots, horse, £3 per ton. Swedes £4 per ton, firm. Parsnips 6s 6d per sack. Apples, dessert, 10,s per case. Apples, cookers, 10s per case. Cocksfoot 7d per lb. Ryegrass 6s per Jbushel. Poultry—Table roosters 5s i6d, cockerels 5s 6d to 6s 6d, table ihens 4s 6d to 6s, ducks 6s 6d to 7s 6d, ! 7s, all at per pair. Turkey > gobblers 9Jd, hens 6Jd, live weight. | Dr-essed poultry—Roosters 6d, hens 6d, turkey gobblers 9id, turkey hens BJo per lb. Poultry in excellent deMessrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report as follows:—We held our fortnightly auction sale of grain, etc., • on Tuesday. A fairly large catalogue was submitted, «*nd the various lines met with g*6d competition. Practically every lot was disposed of at full market rates. * Oats— During the past week the market has been very excited, and price? have advanced to the extent of from 4d to 5d pr bushel, and there does not seem any j prospect of prices receding until not, harvest-- We quote:—Seed lines up J feed oats 8s 9d to 3s j jhhhUHhi and discoloured >.a s ■' s bushel (sacks ex ra). Wheat—This market is very firm, and the business, is limited owing to the high prices ruling. Fowl wheat is in demand, but not much is offering except at prices beyond buyers' limit. Good whole fowl wheat is realizing from 5s 4d to 5s 6d,medium fowl wheat from 5s to 5s 3d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes—ln sympathy with other markets potatoes have been steadily going up in value, and sales have been effected for good sound table linjs at £4 and over, f.o.b. Southern ports. We quote—Best sorts £4 10s to £5, others £3 to £4 per ton (sacks in). Maize— A good enquiry exists, and stocks are low. Prime Gisborne maize is realising 4s 6d to 4s 8d per bushel (sacks extra). Chaff—Prime oaten sheaf chaff is not over plentiful, and with a limited quantity offering the market within the past week has advanced fully 10s per ton. We quote : —Friir.e eaten sheaf chaff £6 5s to £6 10s, extra prime i 6 15s, medium £5 15s to £6, damaged £5 to £5 10s per ton (Dags extra). j