FARMERS' FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9692, 17 January 1910, Page 7

FARMERS' FRUIT AND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Ltd., report as follows under date January 14tk: —Vegetables of all kinds maintain a strong demand at good prices. Fruit is now coming in in large quantities, plums, particularly, suffering a fall in values thereby. There is a very keea demand for grapes, and we could do with much larger supplies. Raspberries arriving would;, realise high prices. Eggs have fallen as anticipated in last week's report. We have heard of sales as low as Is Id, but we are inclined to think that values will be maintained at Is 2d. Potatoes have weakened somewhat in price owing to large arrivals, but if recent rains cause a spread of the blight an immediate rise for clean lines may be looked for. Poultry is in good demand at fair prices. Dressed porkers are slow of sale, only light weights commanding the higher value. For tallow we have always an excellent demand at steady prices. We have this year largely extended our fruit trade, but still have the capacity for a greater increase, and we hope present suppliers who are satisfied with our efforts on their behalf, wjll show ap- ' preciation by advocating neighbours to ship our way, to the benefit of themselves, the Company, and. the genaral protection of tne industry. New potatoes, best Hutt £6 10s, medium £5 per ton; cabbage, choice 7s, ordinary 4s per sack; green peas, 7d to JOd per peck; carrots, Hutt Is 5d dozen, excellent demand; turnips, white 7d to 9d per dozen, excellent demai.d; vegetable marrows, 2s to 4s dozeD, good demand; lettuce, choice I 2s 6d, fair Is 6d per case; spinach, best 2s per case; French u;;ans, choice Hutt Id, other lots |d to |d per lb; cucumbers, hothouse 2s to 4s, outside grown Is to 2s 6d per dozen; broad beans, |d to Id per Jb; spring onions, lOd dozen bundles; radish, 6d dozen bundles; tomatoes, Hutt 5s to 6s 6d, Nelson 4s to 5s 6d per half case, good demand; rhubarb. Is to Is 6d dozen bundles, poor demand; Cape gooseberries, 6d to 7d per lb, keen demand; apple?, cookers, large I 4s 6d, small 4s case; apples, dessert > well coloured 9s; others 6s per case; apricots, choice large 6s 6d to 7s, medium 5s to 5s 6d, small 3s to 4s baif case; peaches, choice dessert 6s 6d to 7s 6d; medium, 5s to 6s; small 4s to 4s 6d half case; plums, cherry 2s 6d; blue diamonds 2s 6d to 3s 3d, Ogans 2s to 2a 9d, Burbanks 2s 9d to 4s 6d, Victoria 3s to 3s 6d; green gage, 4s to 5s 6d p&r half case; maize, 4s 3d per bushel; wheat, 4s

lOd per bushel; barley, feed 3s 3d per bushel; barley, Cape 3s 6d per bushel; horse beaDs, 4s per bushel; partridge peas, 5s per bushel; Prussian blue peas 5s 6d per bushel; barley meal, £5 per ton; pollard, £5 to £5 10a per ton; bran, £4 to £4 10s per ton; chaff, prime oaten sheaf £3 5s to £3 15s per ton; hay, prime £3 per ton; straw, wheaten £2 5s per ton; straw, oaten £2 2s 6d per ton; oats, feed 2s 3d to 2s 6d per bushel; oats, seed Gartons, Duns, 2s 8d per bushel; oats, Algerians 2s 2d to 2s 4d per bushel;oats, crushed 2s 7d per bushel; butter, best separator printed wrappers 8d to 9d, separator bulk 7Jdto Bd, dairy pats 7d to 8d; cheese, best factory mediums, old 6d, new sfd per lb, loaf 6fd per lb; dressed pork, 70's to 90's 3|d, 90's to 100's 3£d, baconers 3d, choppers | heavy 2d; our weekly pork sales beld each Friday during summer; eggs, Is 2d per dozen,'good demand; bacon, factory sides 6£d, rolls 7£d, hams '7d per lb; honey, demand is weak now jam fruit available, 60's 4d per lb; beeswax, strong enquiry, consignments would realise high values; fungus, keen demand at sfd per lb; walnuts, scarce, early lots would reaise high values; tallow, tins 21s to 22s cwt; wool, sheepskins and hides, special sale dn January 28th, 1910: onions. Melbourne Globes £8 llts per ton; strawberries, Is per lb; raspberries, 6s 6d per bucket, wanted; currants, black 7s 6d per half case; nectarines, choice 6s 6d, medium 4s 6d, small 3s per half case; grapes, Is 5d to Is 6d per lb, strong demand; poultry, cockerels 5s 6d to 6s for good birds; small, 3s 6d to 4s; table roosters, 4s, small 3s to 3s 6d, ducks, large 6s 6d, small 4s 6d to 5s 6d per pair, turkey gobblers 9d per lb hens, , 8d per lb, live weight.