PRODUCE MARKET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1912, Page 2

PRODUCE MARKET

The current market prices were yo?tcrduy reported by the New Zealand Farmers' Co-opcrafivo Distributing Company, as follows: — Vegetables.— New potatoes. 10s to 12s cwt; Australian onions, £12 nor ton; cabbage, choice 5a to 6? per ebck, others 3s to 4s; carrots, choici?, 8a to 12s "per sack; cauliflbwer, choice, 6s to 7s 6d per sack ; Nelson green peas, Is per peck ; rhubarb, 5s to 6s per dozen ; turnips, white, 6s to 7s per Back. Fruit.— Gooseberries, 2s 6d to 3s hnlfcase; strawberries, Auckland, Is to Is 3d per lib punnet, Motueko, B£d to lOd. Provisions.— Eggs, fresh, Is per dozoli $ cheese, best factory mediums Td, lonf 7id to 8d per lb; butter, separator 9Ad to lOd, milled 9|d, dairy, 9id per lb; dressed pork, ?o's to 9O'« 6d, 90's to 100's sjd ; baconers, sd ; choppers, Heavy, 3id, slips, 6£d, suckers 7|d per lb; honey, 4d to 4i<l per lb; beeswax, ls^ 6d per Ibj fungus, iid to 4d per lb; walnuts, 7i& pur lb; tallow, caeks 27s 6d to 26s 3d, tins 24k to 26; &1 cwt ; poultry, cockerel' ss, 6d to 6« 6d for good birds, table i'oo-=-lo.x 4s 6cl. tfthjp hens 3s to s^, good dijclcs 7s 6d, lnuiim Runners sft per pair, firUu $robblpri 10^1 pi>r lb, liens 10d per lb liTQ weight , Produce •\fpi?D. f« 3d 'tier buslipi . t-ee<l niiiizc. Illckoii King 7*' Ninety 'Day 6» od, Red lioffan 7r per busiwl {• whea*, •1- io 4* 6d ix.M' bushel ; ten sutk l6t\ 3s 10d to a, 4d; fowl ba-fley. 3s 8d per lm?hcl: pcft.s partridge, 4" 6d per bushel; Prussian blue r."<sd pea-, 6-< 6d per bushel; horM* be.iii. 4^ 6tl per bu*hcL pollard, hb IO« per tun, 10.- It- for (on luti ; brim, £5 5i )>cr ton, lO< It»«, for ton lots; baik,\ meal. £7 pel ton; pen and wheat 'meal, £7 10s ppr ton; mola^o-. fodder, £5 , per ton, or 6s per cwt. than, ontcn sheaf. £4 10s to £5 per ton ex store, special quotations for large lot*; ha;*; prime, £4 to £4 10s per ton; meadow hay. for stock feeding, £3 15s per ton m slore ; sucroMnc. £7 por ton ; *trflw £3 6s por lon ex storo; lifiseod oilcoko, ponumo, £12 10s pr-r ton ; Soyn bean r«ke, £12, 10s por ton ; onl», feed 2* Bdl 1o fa lOd, duns 2s lid, discoloured 2s 3d io 2a 6d. crushed 3s 3d per bushel; seed Capo barley, 4s per bushel; eeed onR Algeri' aiis 3s Bd, Gortons, Sparrowbills, duns, Storm Kings, 3$ 6d per bushel.

If the fool would persist in hin folly he ■ur.uld become \v.«e.— - William Blake.