WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 42, 13 November 1917, Page 8

WHOLESALE PRODUCE PRICES

Messrs. Laery and Co., Ltd., Allen Street, report wholesale price 3 as follow: —Fowls' wheat, prime, 7s. Gd. per bushel; Australian fowl wheat, to arrive, good quality, 7s. 3d. per bushel; feed barley, 4s. lOd. to ss. per bushel; maize, feed, 6s. 3d. per bushel; crushed maize, 6s. Bd. per bushel; oats, seed, -Is. fid. to 4s. Bd. per bushel; oats, feed, 45. fid. to 45." 9rt. per bushel; oats, Dun, 4s. 9d. per bushel; chaff, oatsheaf, £S 15s. per ton, 6acks in; hay, meadow, .63 2s. 6d. per ton, sacks extra; hay, lucerne, .£6 10s. per ton; flour in sacks, .£l6 15s. per ton; Cowslip calf meal, 100* a, <£19 10a.; oatmeal, 25's, .£24 per ton. All poultry in very good demand. Fowls, 6s. to 7s. 6d. per .pair; ducks, Bs. to 10s. per pair;. eggs, fresh, Is. 4d. to Is.' sd. per dozen; turkeys (dead weight), Is. to Is. 6d. per lb.; dressed pork, choice, 70V to 90's Bd. per lb., 90's to 100's 7}d. per lb.; bacon pigs, choice, fid. to 7d. per lb.; choppers (heavy), 4d. to sd. per lb.; sucking pigs, choice, 9d. to lOd. per lb.; beeswax, Is. 6d. to Is. !)(!. Bacon (all best factory): Sides, Is. Id. per lb.; rolls, Is. 2d. per lb.; hams, Is. 2d. per 1b..; shoulders, lid. per lb.; cheese (factory), medium, lid. per lb.; linseed meal, 100's, £13 ss. per ton; whole linseed, .£24 per ton; rice flour, £17 per ton; rice meal, ,£8 per ton; onions. VHtorian, 355. per cwt.; potatoes, southern, table, white £5 to £5 ss. per ton, red £5 15s. to £6 per ton; molasses, 325. 6d., casks free; butter, Is. 2d. per lb.

'Umes aro too keen for cheese factory managers to make nee of any but the moat efficient methods. No cheese vat carries off the whey so quickly and thoroughly as the "Victor"—the vat with sloping bottom and middle drainage. Order early—steel is short. A. J. Parton, Sheetf 3lotftl and Plumbing Works, Pembroke Street, Carterton—Advt.