WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3073, 18 December 1908, Page 6

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

(Special to tbfe Age.)

The New Zealand Farmers' Comparative Distributing Co., Ltd., Wellington, report a3 follows:Maize, 5s 2d per bushel; wheat, 1 whole fowl, 5s 3d per bushel; bar- . ley, Cape seed, 4s per bushel; oats, 2s 3d to 2s 6d per bushel; oats, crushed, 2s 9d per bushel; oats, seed, Duns, Sparrowbills. Gartons, 2s 6d; maize, crushed, 5s per bushel; horse beans, seed, 5s 6d, feed 5s per bushel; hay, prime £5 per ton; straw, £3 os to £3 10s per ton; bran, £6 per ton.; pollard, £7 10s per ton; barley, meal £6 10s per ton; sucrosiue, 200's £7, 100's £7 5s per ton; linseed oil cake (genuine), 15s per cwt; prime oaten sheaf chaff, £4 5s to £4 10s per ton; potatoes (old), table £6 to £7 per ton; potatoes (new), £9 to £lO per ton; potatoes, seed, Derwents, £4 per ton; onions, new, Globes £lO 10s per ton; butter, separator 9d to 9sd per lb, dairy pats 7d to to 8d per lb; eggs, fresh Is 3d per dozen; honey, 60's, 5d per lb; beeswax, Is 6d per lb; ryegrass, perennial, 5s 6d; fungus 4fd per lb; walnuts, 5d per lb; bacon factory, sides 9d, rolls 9£d, hams 9£dperlb; porkers, 70,'s to 90's, sd, 90's to 100's sd, baconers 4£d, heavy pigs 3£d to 4d per lb; cabbage, 2s 6d per sack; cauliflower, 4s 6d to 5s per sack; carrots, table 3s 6d per sack; asparagus, 4d per lb; green peas, 4d to 6d per peck ; rhubarb, 3s 6d per dozen; gooseberries, ripe, 6s 6d to 7s per half case; gooseberries, cooking 4s per half case; red currants, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per half case; black currants, 7s 6d to 8s per half case; peaches, cooking 6s 6d to 7s per half case; peaches, dessert, 9s to 10s per half case; cherry plums, 3s 6d per half case; apples, American, 15s per case. Poultry—Table roosters 4s to 4s 6d, cockerels 5s to 6s, small cockerels 2s 6 to 3s 6d, table hens 4s 6d to ss, ducks 5s to 6s, ducklings 7s, geese Bs, to 10s (all at per pair), turkey gobblers Is, hens lOd to lid (live weight).