WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9161, 7 August 1908, Page 3

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

(Special to Age). The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., Wellington, report as follows: —Maize, 5s per bushel; wheat, whole fowl, 4s 9d to 5s per bushel; barley, feed, 4s 3d per bushel; barley, Cape seed, 4s 6d per bushel; oats, 39 to 3s 6d per bushel; oats, crushed, 3s 3d per bushel; oats, seed, Duns, Sparrowbills, Gartons 3s 6d, African Algerians (screened) 4s 4d psr bushel; ryegrass, perennial, 5s 6d per bushel; maize, crushed, 5s 6d per bushel; horse beans, seed, 5s per bushel; horse beans, crushed, 5s per bushel; hay, prime, £4 10s to £6 10s per ton; straw, £3 to £3 5s per ton; bran, £7 per ton; aucrosine, £7 10s per ton; prime oaten sheaf c haff, £5 15s to £6 per ton; potatoes, D erwents, £6 ss, Dates £5 15s to £6 per ton (firm); potatoes, seed, Selected, Up-to-Dates £6 10s, Derwents £6 ss, Red Beauty of Hebron and Early Rose £6 10s, British Queen £7 10s, Victory £5 10s per ton; onions, £lO 10s to £ll 10s per ton (firm); butter, separator Is 2d, milled Is 2d, dairy pats Is 2d per lb (vtry scarce); eggs, fresh, Is 8d to Is 9J par dozen (good demand); eggs, preserved, Is 4d per dozen (good deal i i 1); liney, 60's, 4£d per lb; mand) ; fungus, 4|d per lb; Walnuts, 411 per lb; porkers, 70's to 90' a, sd, 9-J's to 100's, 4Jd, heavy pigs, 3}d per lb (very good demand); cabbage, 7i to 10s per sack; cauliflowers, 18s par sack; carrots, table, 4s per sack; carrots, horse, 3s per sack; swedes, i!s to 2s 6d per cwt.; pumpkins, 7s per sack; apples, dessert, 7s 6d tn 12s per case; apples, cookers, 6s to 7s par case; pears, dessert, 15a per case; pears cookers, 10s to 12s per case. Poultry—Table roosters 4d to 4s 6d, cockerels 5s to 6s 6d, table hens 4s to ss, ducks 6s 6d to Bs, geese 7s 6d, all at per pair; turkey gobblers lid to Is, hens lOd, live weight.