THE MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1912, Page 9

THE MARKETS

POULTRY IN STRONG DEMAND. _ The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company, reporting on the markets to-day, states that large stocks of potatoes held a few weeks back have now been worked off, and supplies ai'o decreasing, doubtless through the prevailing wet weather. Prices are unchanged. Seed potatoes are now being freely enquired for, and shipments are arriving to meet the demand. Special care is this season being exercised in tho selection of seed potatoes. Onions are going off in quality. With the Aus tralian market exceptionally high, these will shortly advance to a big figure here also. The demand for porkers th*«t week was fair, but prices from £d to £d easier. Suckers, however, are in great demand, and we believe next week will see them selling freely at 7£d per lb. Eggfl are in short demand, and have firmed Id during the week. A good demand for honey ie expected shortly, as the crop throughout New Zealand is very short. Turkeys are specially enquired for, and poultry generally in excellent demand at high prices. Chaff is in full supply, and oats are now weaker. 'Wheat is steady. Pollard easier. Eruit is all in good demand. Cauliflowers show specially good sales. Cabbage, prices now improving. Swedes in fair demand. Horse carrots clow of sale. Carefully selected Canterbury grown seed potatoes are now ar-riving—Up-to-Date, Northern Star, Early Puritan. Early Ro6e, Beauty of IJebron. etc. Prices are as follow :—: — Vegetable*.— Potatoes, prime, 55 per ton ; onions, £9 to £10 per ton ; cabbage, 2s to 2e 6d per sack ; carrptb. 3s per sack ; carrots, horse, 35s per ton ; cauliflower, choice, 6e to 9s per sack ; marrows, 4s 6d to Se per sack ; parsnipe, 4s to 4s 6d per sack; swedes, 2e per cwt ; turnips, white, le 6d per sack ; lettuce, 2s to 3s per ca6e ; pumpkins, 5s to 6e per sack. Fruit.— Grapes, local, le 9d to 2s per lb ; apples, cooking, 5s 6d to 6« per case ; apples, dessert, 6e to 8s per ca«e ; pears, dessert 4s to 4e 6d, cooking 3s half-case. Provisions.— Cheese, beat factory mediums 7d, loaf 7£d per lb ; butter, separator Is, milled lid to ll£d, dairy lid per lb ; eggs, fresh, Is 6d per doz ; preserved egge, Is Id per do 2; dressed pork, 70's to 90's 6d to 6Jd, 90's to 100's 5Jd, baconers sjd, choppers (heavy) 3d to 3|d, slips 6fd, suckers 7d per lb ; honey, 4£d to 5d per lb ; beeswax, Is 4d to Is 5d per lb ; fungus, 3^d to 4d per lb , tallow, tine, 23s cwt ; poultry, cockerels 4s 6d to 6s for good birds, table roosters As 6d, table hens 3s 6d to ss, ducks 5s 6d to 6» 6d per pah-, turkey gobblers 9d to lOd per lb, hens 8d to 9d per lb live weight. Produce. — Maize, 5s 9d per bushel ; wheat-, 4e 7d per bushel, ten sack lot* 4e 5d ; feed barley, 3s 8d per bushel ; peae, Partridge, 4s 2-d per bushel, 3s lid for ten cack lots; pollard, £7 16s per ton ; bran, £6 5s per ton ; barley meal, £7 15s per ton ; pea and wheat meal, £8 per ton ; chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 to £5 10s per ton j chaff, oaten straw, £3 10k per ton ; hay, prime clover, £4 to £4 10s per ton ; hay rye, for stock feeding, £3 15s per ton, in truck lote j sucrosine, £7 106 per ton ; straw, £3 per ton, ex store ; linseed oil cake, genuine, £13 10s per ton ; oats, feed 2s 8d to 2e lOd, Duns 2b lid per bushel ; oate, crushed, 3s per bushel : eeed, Cape barley, 4e per bughel ; seed oats, Algerians 3s 8d per bushel, Gai'tone, excelsiors, sparrowbills, black rivalfl, duns, 3s 6d per bushel. / T