THE MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 3

THE MARKETS

TO-DAY'S PRODUCE PRICES. The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company reports produce prices as follow : — Vegetables.— Potatoes, North Island lines £7 10s, Southern £8 10s Eer ton; cabbage, choice Savoy 5 6d to ss, others Is od to 2s 6d per sack ; cauliflower, choice 10s to 12s 6d, others 4s to 5s sack ; carrots, best 3s to 4s, others 2s 6d sack; celery Is 6d to 2s 6d per doz; marrows 6s to 7s 6d per sack ; onions £5 10s per ton ; parsnips, choice 3s 6d to 4s 6d per sack; swedes 2s 6d per cwt; turnips, white 2s to 2s 6d per sack ; leeks 6d per bundle ; lettuce, choice 4s 6d to 6s, others 3s to 4s per_ case ; spinach 3s to 3s 6d per case , spring onions, 9d to Is pet bundle ; parsley Is per dozen bundles ; pumpkins, ironbsrk 8s to 10s; others 5s to 6s per sack ; beetroot 3s to 4s per sack. Fruit. — Pears, dessert, extra choice 6s to 7s ; others 3s 6d to 4s 6d per £-case , cooking 4s to 5s per case; apples, cooking, choice 5s to 5s 6d, others 3s 6d to 4s, dessert, choice 6s to Bs, others 4<s to 5s per case. Poultry.— Light table hens 3s to 4a; heavy hens 4s to ss, cockerels 4s to ss, 'heavy cockerels 5s 6d to 6s, good heavy ducks 7s to 7s 6d, Indian Runners 5s 6d to»6s- per pair, Turkey Gobblers Is per lb, hens 9d to lOd per 1b live weight. General. — Dressed pork — 70's to 90'e s|d, 90's to 100's s£d, baconers sd, slips s^d to 6d, suckers 6gd, choppers (heavy) 3|d to 3|d per lb; honey,' in 60's, od per lb ; honey sections 6s 6d per doz ; cheese, factory mediums, 9d . per lb ; eggs, fresh I 3 7d per doz, preserved Is 4d to Is 5d per doz ; beeswax Is 5d per lb ; fungus 6^d to 7d per lb ; walnuts 7£d to 7^d per lb ; peanuts 21s per 1001b sack. Produce. — Wheat, 8a per bushel ; maize, 6s 6d per bushel ; pure barley meal, £10 per ton ; pure pea meal, £12 per ton ; oats, prime Gartone 5s 3d, Duns 5s 3d per bushel; oats, crushed, 5s 6d per bushel; feed barley, 6s 6d per bushel ; feed peas, 6s 6d per bushel ; seed Cape barley, 6s 6d per bushel ; 66ed oate, Storm King, Gartons, Duns 5s 9d, Algerians 65 6d to 6s 9d per bushel; pollard, £10 15s to £11 per ton; bran, £9_ 10s per ton; rice flour, £9 per ton ; linseed oil cake, meal and j nuts, genuine 16s cwt, ton lots £15 ; chaff, oaten sheaf, £10 10s per ton; straw chaff, wheat-en straw £5 se, oaten £5 15s to £6; straw, £5 per ton, ex store.