THE DEMAND FOR VEGETABLES

Evening Post, Volume xc, Issue 79, 1 October 1915, Page 8

THE DEMAND FOR VEGETABLES

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company, Ltd., reports that the market is poorly supplied with table potatoes, and the demand is good. Seed lots are plentiful and dull of sale. Good quality seeds are still available, j There is very little movement in the | grain market. Wheat and. oats are somewhat weaker. Bran and pollard having reached normal values again, sales j have been brisk. .There is a large demand for linseed oil cake, which is being freely used for calf feeding, with good results. Sucrosine is lower in sympathy with pollard. Demand for root and rape seeds is decidedly good. We would like a much larger supply of porkers, and confidently invite consignments. Eggs are steady. Cheese is still maintaining high values, and the prospects are excellent from a seller's point of view Honey is wanted. Fairly large supplies of spring cabbage are arriving from Hutt and country districts, and fair prices are ruling for well-packed lines. Choice cauliflowers, which are in short supply, are ruling at high rates. Choice lettuce meet ready sale at satisfactory prices, but inferior lines are slow of sale. Swedes are ruling at last week's rates. Parsnips remain dull of sale. Choke table carrots are selling at high rates, and there is a good demand for white i turnips. Celery, spring onions, and leeks are selling freely. There is good demand for rhubarb, which is arriving in larger quantities. A few Nelson green peas have been Bold during the week at 2s to 2s 3d per peck.