AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 63, 15 March 1900, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKETS.

I Farm and Dairy Produce.—Butter: New 1 Zealand Dairy Association, Anchor, j and Crown brands, " lid lb, Mercantile brand lOd wholesale; Marlborough brand lOd; dairy butter, whole--1 sale, 7d; retail M, second quality Gd wholesale; fresh eggs, 1/ per dozen wholesale, 1/2 retail; lard in blad- . ders, 45d lb, in lib packets 5Jd; i cheese, farmers', 4d lb, factory do., i export and medium size, 4^d to 4jjd, loaf \ ik& to sd; bacon and hams, Green's Can- | terbury sides, Gd. equal numbers 6;d; | hams 7Jd, in single cloth, double cloth, i id extra.

Flour Market.—Flour, local, wholesale, £7 10/, wheatmeal £7 10/, bran lOOlu sacks £3 17/ti, iwlb sacks, £Z 15/, sharpa, EOClb sacks, £4 a/; oatmeal, £12 per ton. 25's, £13 10/ for 7's. Grain—Oats short, feed 2/G. ex store, local dun 2/3 to 2/-1 ex store; fowl wheat 2/6 to 2/7, ex store, sacks included; Southern milling: wheat 2/10 to 3/, sacks extra; maize 2/4 on wharf.

Potatoes—£3 5/. to £3 10/ ton

Onions—Southern and local, £3 10/ to £4 per ton.

Coal and Firewood Markets.—Many ot '.he following quotations are noininal:— Newcastle coal at yard. 28/ to 30/ ton; Westport SO/, Taupiri, best household, delivered, 12 sacks to the ton—Tons 25/. discount 1/ for cash: half tons IS/, discount 6d; quarter tons f./9, discount 3d for cash; hundredweights 1/6, no discount. Picked steam, 12 sacks to the tun—Tons 22/, discount 1/ for cash; half tons 11/6, discount Gd for cash: Quarter tons C/ 3, discount 3d for cash. Firewood: Uncut, at wharf, cargo 7/ to 9/ ton; delivered 12/ to 14/; cut 13/ to 16/.

Building- Materials.—Prices are nominally as follows: — Timber: Boards and scantling, undressed, 100 ft best, 14/; medium, 10/6; second class, 8/6: best planed, tongued and grooved, first class, 16/; medium, 12/G; second class, 10/6; rusticated weather-boards, first class, IG/; medium, 12/6; second class, 10/ G. Undressed boards, Jin thick, best, 11/6; medium, ft/; second class, 6/6; rough lining- boards, gin second class, 6/: lining boards, planed, tongued and grooved, oest. 15/6; medium, 12/; second class, 10/; boat boards, specially selected. 15/6 fo r£in. 14/G for gin. Kauri palings, sft, sap, 9/; heart, 11/; tl-tree rail, £3 10' per 100; puriri posts. 1/ to 1/6 each; shingles, 13/ per 1000: Hobart palIngs, sft, IT/: 6ft, 19/; rails, SO/; selling Quotations. Dry pressed bricks. 52/6 per 1C00: ordinary brick, 50/ per 1000; fire bricks, 21m. £8; and 3in. £9 per 1000; fire clay, 00/ per ton; hydraulic lime, 4/ per 3bushel bag. Drain pipes, at works. 2in drain tiles, 12in lengths. 50/ per 1000; 23>in, 70/; 3in. 90/; 41n, ISO/; 6!n, £15 per 1000: 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 7d each; 4in. 9d; Sin, I/; 9ln, V, 12in, 3/; 151 n, 4/6; 181 n, C/; 21in. 11/: 24in. 15/.

Grass Seeds.—Prices for quantities under 231b. s: Red clover, 7d per lb; super red clover, yd per lb; Englishh cowgrass, Sd per lb; colonial eowgrass, 9d per lb; alsike clover, 9id per lb; super alslke clover, lpjd; white clover, 9Jd; super white clover, lid; trefoil, 5d per lb; crimson clover, 6d per lb; ribgrass, 5d per lb; lucerne, 1/ per lb; sainfoin, 1/ per lb; kidney vetch, 1/ per lb; sheep's parsley, 1/ per lb; sheep's mustard, 5d per lb; Essex rape, 4d per lb; yarrow, 5/ per lb; chicory 1/6 per lb; Timothy, ihd per lb: ratstatl, 1/2 per lb; crested dogstail, 1/4 per lbpoa pratensis, 9d per lb; poa trivialis, 1/G per lb; poa memoralis, 1/6 per lb; poa brownii, 2/6 per lb; poa aquatica, 1/6 per lb; meadow foxtail, 1/3 per lb; meadow fescue, 93 per lb; Chewlng'a fescue, 7id per lb; hard fescue, Sd per lb; sheep's fescue, Sd per lb; red fescue, Sid per lb; fine leaved sheep's fescue, 1/3 per lb; tall fescue, -iSd per lb; sweet vernal, 1/b per lb; agrostls vulgaris (red top), 1/ per lb; agrostis stolonifera (florin) 1/ per lb; yellow oat grass (avena flavescens), 3/ per lb; paspalum dilitatum, 7/6 per lb; Johnston grass, 1/3 per lb; Indian boobj, 2/3 per lb; danthonia (semi annularis), 1/9 per lb. Turnips: Aberdeen's yellow fleshed. 9d per lb; white stone or stubble, V per lb. For quantities under 10 bushels—Cocksfoot: Farmers' dressed 7/ per bushel; extra machine dressed, 7/9 per bushel. Ryegrass: Poverty Bay, 6/ per bushel; Hawke's Bay, 5/3 pef bushelCanterbury extra dressed, heavy, 4/6 per bushel; Canterbury fine dressed, 4/ per bushel; Canterbury, farmers' dressed, 3/6 per bushel; Italian, 4/6 per bushel; Italian (liinglisn), »/G per bushel; prairie grass 4/6 per bushel. Special quotations ror large parcels.

Jvempthorne, Prosser and Co.'s New Zealand Drug Company, Limited, Westfield manures price list, season 1900:— One Ton 'A' Superphosphate" (total phosphates 40 per cent., soluble 32/34 per cent., li per cent, ammonia).. 510 0 B Superphosphate (total phosphates 31 per cent.,soluble 26 per cent.), 2cwt sacks 4 8 C 'C Superphosphate (total phosphates 46 per cent..soluble 15 per cent.), 2cwt sacks 4 15 0 Mineral Superphosphate (total phosphates 3S per cent., soluble 30 per cent.), 'Jewt sacks p 0 0 Bonedust (pure) steamed 7 10 0 Bonedust (pure) green' 7 10 0 Bonedust and Blood 6 15 0 Special Root Manure 7 5 0 Special Grass Manure 'A' (for Top Dressing) " o 0 Special Grass Manure 'B' (for Permanent Pasture) 7 0 0 Special Potato Manure 7 5 v Special Turnip Manure 7 0 0 Special Rape Manure '...'1 0 0 Special Corn Manure 'A' (for Green Feed) 7 0 0 Special Corn Manure 'B' (for Wheat, Oats, Barley, etc.) 7 0 0 Special Maize Manure 'a; (for Green Feed) : 7 5 0 Special Maize Manure 'B' (for cob maize) 7 5 0 Special Orchard Manure 'A' (for Young Trees) 7 15 0 Special Orchard Manure 'B' (for Fruit Formation) 7 1.5 0 Special Clover Manure 7 0 o Special Onion Manure 7 15 0 Special Sugar Beet Manure 8 15 0 Sulphate of Ammonia 15 10 0 Coral Queen Guano, 2cwt sacks (50 per cent, phosphate of lime) 4 5 0 Surprise Island Guano, 2cwt sacks (37 per cent, phosphate of lime) 6 i> v (f.o.b. Onehunga, £3 12/) Kainit original sacks about lcwt 4 7 6 Nitrate of Soda, original sacks about 2cwt "... .■■■• ■■• «/ cwt Muriate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt ;•• W CVtt Sulphate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt lb/ cwt Sulphate of Iron, original sacks • i hrm't °Cwt ' :.'....■■• lv' c c Special-Garden Manure.Mlb bags..l/ 6 each Fowl Grit, 141b bags, coarse, me- - lib Vins:::: 6 d each Ln«"ed Oil Cake, fine crushed, medium or whole cake, per ton .. 9 15 0 Discount less 2J per cent, for cash. Prices subject to alteration without notice Previous Lists now cancelled. Auckland,- 9th March, 1900-