PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 137, 10 June 1916, Page 12

PRODUCE PRICES

The JCew Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company reports produce prices yesterday as follow': —

Produce.—Wheat, good whole fowl 5s 3d per bushel, 10-sack lets 5s Id ; maize, local 5s 6d per bushel; oats, feed 3s 3d per bushel., crushed 3s 7d per bushel; seed oats Australian, Algerians dressed and clipped ss, Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s, Duns 4s 6d per bushel; partridge peas seed, 6s 6d per bushel ; Russian barley Cape seed, 5s per bushel; barley feed, 4s 6d per bushel; barley meal, £8 10s per ton ; pollard, £9 per ton; rice pollard, £7 10s per ton ; bran, £6 per ton ; linseed oil cake, slabs, meal and nuts £11 10s per ton, 100's 12s, 50's 6s 6d ; chaff, oaten sheaf £5 10s to £6 per ton; molasses, 28s per scwt; straw, £3 10s per ton.

Vegetables.—Potatoes, £7 to £7 10s per ton; cabbage, choice 9s to 10s, medium 6s to 7s per sack : cauliflower, choice 18s to £1, medium 8s to 10s per sack ; carrots, best 6s to Bs, others 4s to 5s per sack; onions, £5 10s per ton ; turnips, white 6s to 8a per sack; leeks, 6d to 9d per bundle ; lettuce, 6s to 7s per case ; spinach, 3s to 4s per case; beetroot, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per sack; spring onions, Is to Is 3d a bnncli; marrows, Is 6d to 2s 6d per wise j swedes, 3s to 4s per cwfc. ; pumpkins, 4s to 5s per sack; parsnips, 8s to 10s per sack. Fruit.—Apples, dessert choice 8s to Qs per case, cooking. 4s 6d to 5s 6d per case; pears, choice dessert 8s to 9s per case ; lemons, 16s per case ; passions, 6s per half-case. ,

General.—Dressed pork, 70's to 90's 6£d to 7d, 90's to 100's . 6£d to 6|d ; ba-coners 6d, choppers (heavy) 4d per lb ; honey, in 60's s|d per lb, sections 7s to 8s per dozen ; eggs, fresh 2s 6d per dozen, preserved Is 7d to Is 8d ; beeswax, Is 6d per lb ; fungus, 6|d to 7d per lb ; walnuts, Sd per lb. Poultry.—Light table hens 3s 'to 3s 6d, heavy hens 4s to ss, cockerels os to 4s, heavy cockerels 6s to 7s; good heavy ducks 6s 6d to 7s 6d, Indian Runners 3s 6d to 4s 6d per pair ; turkey gobblers Is to Is Id per lb, hens lid to Is per lb live weight.