WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3056, 17 April 1917, Page 8

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale prices as follows:—Fowls' wheat, prime, 6s. 9d. per bushel; fowls' barley, 4s. per bushel; Cape barley, ss. 3d. per bushelj blue peas, 17s. 6d. per bushel; partridge peas, Bs. 3d. per busjiel; maize, feed, ss. 6d. per bushel; crushed maize, 6s. per bushel; chaff, oatslieaf, £6 10s. per ton; hay, clover, £5 10s. per ton; hay, meadow, £5 per ton; flour, in sacks, £16 ss, per ton; oatmeal, 25's, £!22 per ton; pollard, £8 per ton; barloy pollard, £7 per ton; bran, i's Ss. to £5 10s. per ton; bacon (all best factory), sides Is. Id. per lb.; rolla, Is. 2d. per lb.; hams, ■' Is. 2d. per lb.; ehoulders, 10f d. per lb.; clieese (factory), medium, lOd. per lb.; cheese, loaf, lid. per lb.; linseed meal: 100's £11 10s.; 60's £12, 20'e £12 10s.; linseed, nuts, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; linseed ground cake, 12s. 6d. per cwt.; whole linseed, 255. per cwt.; barley pollard, £7 ss. per ton; rice raea], £5 10s. per ton; onions, £7 I.os. per ton /potatoes, white skinned table, £6 10s.. to £7 10s. per ton; pig meal £5 10s. per ton. All poultry in very good demand: Hens, 4s. to 6s. per pair; cockerels, ss. to 7s. od. per pair: ducks (Pekin and Aylesbury), 7s.' 6d. to, 9s. per pair; ducks (Indian fiunners), ss. to 6s. 6d. per pair; turkeys, gobblers Is. 2d. per Fb., bens Is. per lb. (live weight); eggs, Inj 2s - 6|J - P er dozen i preserved Is. lOd. per dozen; butter (prime bulk), Is. 4d. per lb. The Prime Minister's standing appeal to agriculturists to grow wheat has resulted in a< substantial addition to the Dominion's wheat area, says an exchange. At a recent meeting of tho Runciman branch of the Farmers' Union all the members present promised to do their best to grow a paddock of wheat this year, and it is proposed to hold another meeting in order to induce every farmer in the district to contribute, if possible,' to next season's wheat crop. Little or no wheat has been grown in the district up to the ■Present, but the land is considered suitable far the purpose, and it is hoped that. a good crop will reward the p&tnotio enterprise of the farmers.