COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10045, 16 May 1910, Page 5

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY PRODUCE REPORT.

The New Zealand Farmers' Co operative Distributing Company, Limited, report as follows :

Potatoes huve advanced and the price is still rising. Onions are also firming. Vegetables are in steady demand excepting cabbage and cauliflower, which are somewhat easier. A decided change has taken place with regard to cooking apples, which are now in excellent demand at much increased values. Preserved eggs are easier with fairly large supply. Oats are advancing, and wheat is firm. Jf ollard and bran show an advancing tendency. Maize at present prices is well worth stocking up for winter supplies. Quotations: —■ Potatoes, prime Up-to-dates, £5 10s to £5 15s per ton; onions, £4 to £4 10s per ton; garlic, 3d per lb; cabbage, choice ss, ordinary 2s to 4s per sack; cauliflower, choice 10s, others 4s 6d to 8s per sack; green peas, Is per peck; carrots, Hutt lOd doz; turnips, white 8d doz; swedes, 2s to 2s 6d per sack; vegetable mar row?, Is psr sack; pumpkins 2s 6d to 3s sack; pie melons, 3s per sack; lettuce, choice 53, fair Is 6d to 23 6d per case spinach, best 2s 6d per case; French beans, 8s 6d per half case; spring onions, 6d doz bundles; tomatoes, round 4s 6d, Hutt 3s to 4s 6d, others Is 6d to 2s 6d per half case; apples cookers, large 4s to 5s 3d, small 2a 6d to 3s 6d per case; apples, dessert well coloured 6s 6d to 7s 6d, others 4s to 5s 6d per case; pears, dessert 6s to 8s 6d, cookers large 4s 6i to 5s 6d, small 3s 6d to 4s per case; grapes, best Hutt Is 3d, best Nelson Is per lb; butter, separator lOd, dairy 9d to 9£d per lb; cheese, best factory mediums 5Jd to s£d per lb, loaf 6§d to 7d per lb; dressed ro'k, 70's to 90's 41 to 4.Jd; 90' h to HjO's 4d, baconers 3£d to 4d, choppers heavy 2d to 2|d; our weekly pork sales held each Thursday during winter; eggs,* 2s 5d to 23 6d; preserved, Is 4a per doz; bacon, factory sides 7d, rolls 7£d, hams Bfd per lb; honey, 4d to 4£d per lb;beesw£x, Is 4d to Is 6d per lb; fungus, keen demand at s&d per lb; walnuts, s£d per lb; tallow, tins 24s per cwt. Wool. Sheepskin and Hides,—Special sale on May 20tb, 1010. Poultry.— Cockerels 5s 6d for good birds; small 3s to 3s 6d; table roosters, 4s, table hens 33 6d, small 2s to 2s 6d, duck?, large 5i to 6s, small 3s to 3s 6d per pair, turkey gobblers 9d per lb, hens 8d per lb live weight. Maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d per bushel; wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel; wheat, broken 3s 6d per bushel; barley, feed 3s 3d per bushel; barley, Cape 3s 6d per bushel- horse beans, 4s 6d to 4s 9d per bushel; Partridge peas, 5s per bushel; Prussian blue peas, 5s 6d p§r bushel; barley meal, special quality £5 10s per ton; sharps, £5 15s per ton: pollard, £5 10s per ton; bran. £4l 0s per ton; chaff, oaten sheaf £4 15s to £5 5s per ton; hay, prime £3 15s to £4 10a per ton; sucrosine, £6 10s per ton; straw, wheaten £2 10s per ton; straw, oaten £2 7s 6d per ton; linseed oil cake, genuine £l3 per ton: oats, feed 2j 8d per bushel; oats, Seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d; Algerians, 3s 3d per bushel; oats, crushed 2s lOd per bushel; machine dressed cocksfoot, 6Jd to 7d per lb; farmers' dressed cocksfoot, 5d to 6d per lb; perennial ryegrass, 4s 6d to 5s per bushel; Italian ryegrass, 4s 3d to' 43 9d per bushel.

MESSRS .BLADE AND GO'S REPORT.

Messrs J. E. Blade and Co. report a good attendance at their weekly sale on Saturday. Aged draughts sold fairly well, while lighter sorts failed to reach owners' reserves. There were no cows or pigs entered, for which we had several inquiries. There was a fair entry of poultry, for which competition was keen. We quote as follows:—Aged draught horass up to £ls; purebred White Leghorn cockerels, 6s: other 2s 6d to 3s 6d; rosters, 4s; all at per pair; pig potatoes, 2s 6d per sack; Swede tur nips, 2s 6d per sack; flawke's Bay apples, 5s to 6s per 481b cases; pumpkins, Jd per lb; furniture, etc., fetched fair prices.