THE MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 3

THE MARKETS

TO-DAY'S FRUIT AND VEGETABLE RATES. Prices of fruit and vegetables and other produce to-day are reported by the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co. as . follows :—: — Vegetables. — Potatoes, North —land lines, £8 10s to £9; Southern, £9 10s per ton. Potatoes, seed, specially-selected Southern-grown Up-to-Dates, Northern Star, Gamekeepers, £6 per ton ; 10s less for ton lots. Cabbage, choice spring, 3s to 4s j others, 2s toi 2s 6d per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 10s to 13s; medium, 6s to 8s per sack. Carrots, best, 4a to 4s 6d ; others, 3s to 3s 6d per sack. Celery, 7s 6d to 10s per dozen. Onions, local, £10 per ton. Parsnips, choice, 3s to 4s per sack. Swedes, 3s to 3s 6d per cwt. Turnips, white, 3s to 3s 6d per sack. Leeks, 4d to 6d per bundle. Lettuce, choice, 4s to ss ; others, 2s to 2s 6d per case. Spinach, 5s to 6s per case. Peas, Nelson, choice, Is, to Is 3d per peck. Beetroot^ 3s to 4s per sack. Bhubarb, 7s 6d to 10s per dozen. Spring onions, 6d to 9d> per bunch. Fruit. — Apples, cooking, choice 7s 6d to 9s 6d, medium.' 5s to 6s, others' 4s; apples, dessert, choice 12s to 14s, others 7s 6d to 10s per case. Poultry. — Light table hens, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; heavy hens, 5s 6d to 6s; cockerels, 4s to sb; heavy cockerels, 6s to 7s; good heavy ducks, 7s 6d to Bsj Indian runners, 5s 6d to 6s per pair; turkey 6, gobblers 9d to lOd per lb, hens 8d to 9d per lb live weight. General. — Dressed pork, 70's to 90's 6£d, 90's to 100'b 6d, baconers sd, choppers (heavy) 3Jd to id per lb ; honey, in 60' s, 5d per lb; honey sections, 6s 6d per dozen ; eggs, fresh, Is 2d per dozen ; beeswax, Is 6d per lb; fungus, 6£d to 7d per lb; walnuts, 6^d to 7d per lb; wheat, splendid quality, 6s per bushel; maize, 5b 6d per bushel, 5s 3d for 10sack lots; maize seed, Hickory King, 6s 6d bushel or 6s sack lots; pure barley meal, £7 per ton; pure pea meal, £10 10s per ton ; oats, prime Gartons is 4d per bnshel. crushed 4s 6d per bushel; feed barley, 5b 6d per bushel, 5s for 10-sack lots; feed peas, 6s per bushel; seed oats, Storm King, Duns, 5s 6d, Algerians 7s to 7s 6d, Gartons 5s per bushel; pollard, £7 10s per ton, 5s ton less for ton lots; bran, £6 5s per ton, 5s ton less for ton lots; rice flour, £8 per ton; linseed oil cake, meal and nuts, genuine, 14s cwt, ton lots £13 10b; chaff, oaten sheaf, £8 10s per ton; straw chaff, oaten £4, wheaten £3 10s ; sucrosine, £7 10a per ton; meat and bone meal, 17s per 100, 9s per 50 and 5s per 25li> bag ; straw, £5 per ton ex storo; sulphate ammonia, £18 per -ton; snlpliate potash, £35 per ton; basic slag, £5 10b; superphosphate, £5 10s per ton.