AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 182, 2 August 1900, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce: Butter, New Zealand Dairy Association and Anchor brands 1/1 K>: Crown , brand 1/ lb -wholesale; prime dairy butter lOd; medium, 9d: fresh eggs, 8d per dozen wholesale, retail 10d; lard In bladders. 43d lb, In lib packets 5Jd; cheese, farmers' 5d lb; factory, export, and medium size, Gd, loaf GJd, bacon and hams. Flour MarKet—Flour, locnl, wholesale, £7 15/- wheatmeal£7 15/; bran, 1001b sacks. £4 12/6 1601b sacks £4, sharps, 2001b sacks £4 15/;' oatmeal, £10 p.er ton, 25's, £11 10/ fnQrain-Oats, short feed, 2/21, c.i.f.; seed dun 2/4, ex store; seed Tartars, 2/6; fowl wheat, 2/7, ex store, sacks included; Southern milling wheat, 2/10 to 3/ sacks extra; maize 2/4 on the wharf. Potatoes, £3; lapstone kidney seed, £3 Onions—Southern and local, £4- to £4 10/ per ton. Coal and Firewood Markets.—Newcastle coal, at yard 25/ per ton, delivered 30/; Westport, 30/; Taupirl, best household, delivered, 12 sacks to tho ton—Tons 26/, discount 1/ for cash; half-tons, 13/6, discount 6d; quartertons, 7/, discount 3d for cash; hundredweights, 1/6, no discount. Picked steam, 12 sacks to the ton—Tons, 22/, discount 1/ for cash; half-tons, 11/6, discount Od for cash; nuarter-ton9, 6/3, discount 3d for cash. Firewood—Uncut at wharf, cargo 7/, to 9/ ton! delivered, 12/ to 14/; cut, 13/ to 16/. Building Materials.—Bdards and scant-

ling, undressed, 100 ft best, 14/; medium, 11/6; second class 8/6; best planea tongued and grooved, first class 16/; medium, 13/6; second class, 10/6; rusticated weatherboards, first class, 16/; medium, 13/6; second class 10/; undressed boards, Jin thick, best, 11/6; medium, 10/; second class, 6/6; rough lining boards, jin, second class, 6/; lining hoards, planed, tongued and grooved, best. 15/6; medium, 13/; second class, 10/; boat boards, specially selected, 15/6 for Jin, 14/6 for Jin. 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, 17/; 6ft, 19/: rails, 80/; dry pressed bricks, 52/6 per 1000; ordinary bricks, 50/ per 1000; fire bricks, 2iin, £8; and 3in, £9 per 1000; fire clay, 60/ per ton; hydraulic lime, 4/ per 3bushel bag. Drain pipes, at works, 2in drain tiles, 12iu lengths, 50/ per 1000; 2Jin, 70/; 3in, 90/; 4tn, 130/; 6in, £10 per 1000; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths, 7d each; 4ln, 9d; Cln, 1/; 9in, 2/; 12in, 3/; 15in, 4/6; 181 n, 0/; 21in, 11/; 24in, 15/.

Grass Seeds.—Prices for quantities under 2Slb: Hed clover, 7d per lb; super red clover, 9d per lb; English c&wgrass, 8d per lb; colonial cowgrass, 9d per lb; alsike clover, 9Jd per lb; super nlsike clover, lOJd; white clover, 9Jd; super white clover, lid; trefoil, 5d per lb; crimson clover, Ud per lb; ribgrass, 5d per lb; lucerne, 1/ per lb; sainfoin, 1/ per lb; kidney vetch, I'/ per lb; sheep's parsley, 1/ pel" lb; sheep's mustard, 5d per lb; Essex rape. 4d per lb; yarrow, 5/ per lb; chicory, 1/0 per lb; timothy, 4}d per lb; ratstail, 1/2 per lb; crested dogstall, 1/4 per lb; poa pratensis, 9d per lb; poa trivialls, 1/0 per lb; poa metnoralls, 1/6 per lb; poa browmi, 2/(s'per lb; poa aquatica, 1/0 per lb; meadow foxtail, 1/3 per lb; meadow (semi annularis), 1/9 Pf1!' lb. Turnips: Aberdeen's yellow fleshed, 9d per lb; white stone or stubble, 1/ 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 per bushel; Canterbury extra dressed, heavy, 4/C per bushel; Canterbury fine dressed, 4/ per bushel; fescue, 9d per lb; Che wing's fescue, 7sd per lb; hard fescue, Sd per lb; sheep's fescue, 8d per lb; red fescue, Bid per lb; line-leaved sheep's fescue, 1/3 per lb; tall fescue, 4Jd per lb; sweet vernal, 1/0 per lb; agrostls vulgurls (red top), 1/ per lb; agrostis stolonlfera (florin), 1/ per lb; yellow oat grass (avena flavescens), 3/ per lb; paspalum dllltatum, 7/0 per lb; Johnston grass, 1/3 per lb; Indian boobj, 2/3 per lb; danthonia Canterbury, farmers' dressed, 3/6 per bushel; Italian, 4/6 per bushel; Italian (English), 5/6 per bushel; prairie grass, 4/6 per bushel. Special quotations for large parcels.

Kempthorne. Prosser and Co.'s New Zealand Drug Company, Limited, Westfield manures price list, season 1900:— One Ton. £ sd

Discount less 2J per cent, for cash. Prices subject to alteratJon without notice. Previous Lists now cancelled. Auckland. Ist June. 1000.

'A' Superphosphate (total phosphates 40 per cent., soluble 32/34 per cent, 1 per cent, ammonia).. 5 15 0 Bonedust (pure) steamed 7 5 0 Bonedust (pure) green 7 15 0 Bonedust and Blood 6 10 0 Special Root Manure 7 G 0 Special Grass Manure 'A' (for top Dressing) 7 0 0 Special Grass Manure 'B' (for permanent Pasture) 7 0 0 Special Potato Manure 7 5 0 Special Turnip Manure 7 0 0 Special Rape Manure 7 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 15 0 Special Clover Manure 7 0 0 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).. 3 15 0 Kainit, original sacks about lcwt 4 7 6 Nitrate of Soda, original sacks about 2cwt 14/ cwt Muriate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt 16/ cwt Sulphate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt 16/ cwt Sulphate of Iron, original sacks about 2cwt 10/ cwt Special Garden Manure, 141b bags..1/6each Fowl Grit, 141b bags, coarse, medium, or fine 1/6 each Vitnflor for pot plants, lib tins 6d each