THE MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 75, 25 September 1914, Page 8

THE MARKETS

CURRENT PRICES IN ALLEN-STREET The N.Z. Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co., Allon-street, reports prices as follow: — Vegetables — Potatoes, choice, £3 15e to £4 per ton. Cabbage, choice, 6s 6d to 9s ; others, 3s to 4s per hack. Cauliflower, choice, 7s 6d to lls; others, 3s to 4s sack. Beetroot, choice, 5s to 5s 6d per sack. Carrots, choice, 5s to 6s ; others, 4s to 4s 6d per sack. Parsnips, choice^ 5s 6d to 6s 6d per sack. Peas, Nelson, 2s to 2s 3d per peck. Pumpkins, ironbark, 10s per sack. Swedes, 2s 6d per cvrt. Turnips, -white, 5s per sack. Lettuce, choice, 5s to 6e per case. Rhubarb, 6s to 7s 6d per dozen bundles. Fruit — 'Apples, large cookers, 8s to lOsj others, 5s to 6s per case. Apples, dessert, choice 10s to 13s, fair 6s 6d to 7s per case. Poultry— Good table hens, 4b to 5s 6d; heavy cockerels, 5s to 6a 6d ; good heavy ducks, 6s 6d to 7s ; Indian Kunners, 6s per pair; turkey gobblers, lOd per lb; hens, 8d to 9d per lb livo weight. General — Dressed port 70's to 90' s, 6Jd ; 90' s to 100' s, 51d to 6id; baconers, 5d to s^d ; choppers (heavy), 3Jd per lb. Honey, 4d to 4id per lb; honey sections, 6s to 6s od per dozen. Oheese, best factory mediums, 6£d per lb. Eggs, fresh, lUd to Is per dozen. Fungus, sid per lb. Waihrute, 7d per lb. Produce — Wheat, prime, 5s 6d per bushel ; whole, 5s 2d per bushel ; _ choice seed tuscan, 6s 3d per bushel. Maize, local, 5s 3d per bushel. Oats, feed, 3s 3d per bushel ; Duns, 3s 3d ; crashed, 3s 6d. Feed barley, 3s 2.d per bushel. Feed peas, 4s 4d per bushel. Seed oats, Algerians 3s 6d par bushel ; specially dressed Australian, 3s 9d; Gartons, Sparrowbills, Dune, Storm Kings, 3s 9d. Peas — Seed peae, Stratagem, Yorkshire Hero, etc., 6s od per bushel. Seed Cape barley, 4s per bushel. Flour, sacks, 2&t, 100's 14a 6d, 5Cs 7s 6d. Pollard, £8 2s od. Bran, £5 10s per ton. Barley meal, £7 5s per ton. Pure pea meal, £8 per ton. Sucrosine, £7 per ton in 200'fi. Quicklime, in 281b airtight tins, 3s per tin. Linseed oil cake, nute or meal, genuine, 13s 6d cwt. Meat and bone meal, 17s per 100, 9s per 50, and 5a pet 251b bag. Chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 per too, ex store. Straw, £3 per ton, ex store. Seed potatoes, Canterbury grown and speciaillv selected, Uo-to-Datee, Northern Stars, Gamekeopers, £4 per ton, or £4los ■ for less quantities.