PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 12

PRODUCE PRICES

LATEST MARKET QUOTATIONS;

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company reports produce prices as follow : —

Vegetables.—Potatoes (prime Hutt) 12s to 13s per cwt., others 7s to 9s per cwt. ; cabbage (choice) 4s per sack,-medium 2s 6d per sack; .cauliflower (choice) 13s per sack, carrots (best) 5s per sack, onions (local) £9 per ton, turnips (white) 3s per sack, lettuce (choice) 8s per oaso, French beans 3d per ]b, beetroots 6d per bunch, spring onions Is Id per bundle, green peas 2s per peck, parsnips 7s per sack, marrows 5s sack, Swedes 3s cwfc., Hntt tomatoes 3s to 5s half-case. Nelson tomataoes 3s half-case.

Fruit.—Peaches (choice dessert) 3s to 5s half-case, nectarines (choice dessert) 6s half-case, apples (choice dessert) 6s to 7s full case, apples (cooking) 3s to 4s full case, greengages 8s half-case, raspberries 6s bucket, plums (October purple) 6s half-case, plums (Blue Diamond) 5s to 6s half-case, others 4s 6d half-case, blackberries 3Jd lb, grapes Is lb, pears (local W.B.G. choice dessert) 4s half case, medium 2s 9d half-case.

Produce.—Wheat, good whole fowl, 6s lOd to 7s bushel; maize, 5s 6d bushel; oats, feed, 4s bushel; oats, crushed, 4s 4d bushel. Seed oats, Australian—Algerians; dressed arid clipped 4s 9d, others 4s 3d; Gal'tons and Spa-rrowbills 4s 3d, Duns 4s 6d bushel. Partridge peas seed 7s 6d bushel, feed peas 6s 6d, Russian barley Cape seed 5s bushel, barley feed 4s 6d bushel, barley meal £7. 15b toil (fine pig feed); pollard £7 15s; rice pollard £7 ton, bran £5 10s ton. Linseed oil cake—Slabs, meal, and nuts, £11 10s ton of 20001b, 100's 12s, 50's 6s 6d. Chaff (oaten sheaf) £5 15s to £6 ton, molasses 30s cask, straw £3 10s ton.