AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 84, 10 April 1902, Page 3

AUCKLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Farm and Dairy Produce: Bu-tter, New Zealand Dairy Association and Anchor brands, 1/ lb; factory butter, 1/; separator butter, 9d; dairy butter, 8d; second quality, 7d; fresh eggs, 1/3 per dozen ■wholesale; lard in bladders, 4Jd per lb, in lib packets Bid; cheese, farmers', 3£d to 4d lb; factory, export and medium size, sd; loaf, 5Jd.

Flour Market.—Flour, local, wholesale. £10; wheatmeal £10; bran 10001b sacks £4 15/; 1601b sacks £4 17/6; sharps,' 2001b sacks, £4 15/; oatmeal, £13 10/ per ton, 25'g.

Grain—Oats, B grade, 3/ to 3/1 c.1.f.; local dun oats, 2/6 to 2/7, station; fowl wheat, 3/7, ex store, sacks included; Southern milling wheat, 3/8 to 3/9, f.0.b., sacks extra; maize, 3/4, wholesale lines on wharf.

Potatoes—Derwents £4 10/, ex store.

Onions—Christehurch, 5/6.

Chaff—£4 10/ ton, delivered

Grass and Clover Seeds.—The following are current prices for grass and clover seeds, but liable to market fluctuations; special quotations for larger quantities: Red clover, for quantities under 2Slbs, B£d per lb; English cowgrass, itd; colonial co'wgrass. Hid; Alsike clover, 1/; white clover, Hid; lucerne, 1/; Timothy, 6-id; ratstail, lOd; crested dogstail, 1/6; poa pratehsis, lOd; meadow foxtail, lid; meadow fescue, • lid;' Chewlng's fescue, Sd; hard fescue, 9id; sheep's fescue, 9Jd; danthonia (semi-annularis), 1/6; microlaena (rice grass), 1/9. cocksfoot, farmers' dressed, 8/9 per bushel; do., extra machine dressed, 9/9; rye grass, Poverty Bay, 7/; do., Canterbury extra dressed, heavy. 5/6; do., Canterbury, farmers' dressed, 4/fi;. rto., Italian (re-cleaned), 5/6; prairie grass; 5/. Coal and Firewood' Markets—Newcastle coal at yard, 26/ per ton, delivered 31/; W-s'tport 30/; Tauplri, best household, delivered 12 sacks to the ton—Tons, 28/, discount V for cash; half-tons, 13/6, discount 6d- quarter-tons, 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 Sd for cash; quarter-tons, 6/3, discount 3d for cash. Firewood—Uncut at wharf, cargo, II to 9/ ton; delivered, 12/ to 14/; cut, 13/ to 16/. Building Materials—Boards and scantling undr«3ed, 100 ft best, 15/; medium, 12/6; second-class. 9/6; best planed, tongued and grooved, first-class, 17/; medium, 14/6; second-class, 11/ li- rusticated weatherboards, iirst-class. 17/; medium, 14/; sec-ond-ciass, 11/; undr-jssed boards, Jin thick, best, 12/; medium. I'j/ti; second-class, 7/; rough lining boarus, yin, second-class, 6/ri: lining boards, p ; aned. tongued and grooved, Dest. Itj/o; medium, 14/; second-class, 11/'; boat boards, specially selected, 16/6 for Jin; 15/6 for gin; kauri palings, sft, sap, 9/; heart, 11/; ti-tree rail, £3 10/ per 100; purlri posts. 1/ to 1/6 each; shingles, 13/ per 1000; Hooart palings, oft, 17/; 6ft, 19/; rails. SO/; iry pressed bricks. 52/6 per 1000; ordinary bricks, 50/ per 1000; lire bricks, 2Jin. £S; and 3in. £9 per 1000; fire clay, 60/ per ton; hydraulic lime, 4/ per 3 - bushel bag; drain pipes, at works, 21n drain tiles, 12ir. lengths, 50/ per 1000; 2Jln, 70/; 3in, 90/; 41n, 130/; 61n, £15 per 1000; 3in socket pipes, 2ft lengths. 7d each; 41n, 9d; 61n, 1/; 91n, 2/; 12in, 3/; lSln, V<3: ISm, 6/; 21in, 11/; 2-lin. 13/.

Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.'s New Zealand Drug Company (Limited) Westfleld Manure Price List, Season 1901-1932. One Ton. £ s. d.

"A" Superphosphate (total phosphates 40 per cent., soluble 32/34 per cent., 1 per cent, ammonia) 5 15 0 "B" Superphosphate, 2cwt sacks, 33/36 per cent, soluble 4 15 0 Bonedust (pure) steamed 7 5 0 Bonedust (pure) green .., 7 15 0 Bonedust and Blood 615 0 Special Root Manure 7 5 0 Special Grass Manure "A" (for top dressing) 7 0 0 Special Grass Manure "B" (for permanent pasture) 7 0 9 Special Potato Manure 7 5 9 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 16 10 0 Surprise Island Guano. 2cwt3acks, 40 per cent, phosphate of lime.. 4 0 0 Maiden Guano, 2cwi sacks, 65 per cent, phosphate of lime 5 11 0 Kainit, originnl bags .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.xtl. original sacks about 2cwt 10/cwt Special Garden Manure, 141b bags.l/ 6 each Fowl Grit. 141b bags, coarse, medium, or fine '.„....1/6 each "KP" Improved Sheep Dip, sgal. drums 3/9 per gal. K'emp's Branding Fluid, three colours — Blue. Black, Red — 4gal. tins 2 in a case -3/9 per gal. In lgal. tins 4^3 per gal.

Discount less 2J per cent, for cash. Prices subject to alteration without notice. Previous lists now cancelled. Auckland. 12th October, 1901.