PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 100, 27 April 1917, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

. To-day's market .report of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company is as follows :— Vegetables:—Potatoes, prime Hntt 7s to 8s per cwt, others 6s to 7s per cwt; cabbage, choice 5s 6d to 6s 6d per sack; cauliflower, choice 10s to 12s per sack; carrots, best 4s 6d to 5s 6d per sack; onions, local £8 per ton; turnips, white 3s 6d per sack; lettuce, choice 4s to Ss per case; french beans, 10s to 12s per sack; beetroot, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per sack; spring .onions, , 9d. jper dozen, bundles ; green " peas, 2s per peck; parsnips, 7s to 9s per sack; marrows, 3s 6d per sack ; swedes', 4s per cwt; Hutt tomatoes, 8s per half-case. Fruit.—Apples, dessert 6s to 7s 6d per full case, cooking 4s to 5s per full case; grapes, Is to Is 6d per lb; pears, local W.8.C., choice dessert. 6s per half-case; medium 5s per half-case. Produce.—Wheat, good whole fowl 6s 9d to 6s lOdper bushel'; maize, 5s 6d; oats,' feed 4s 6d, crushed 4s 9d; seed oats, Australian, Algerians, dressed and clipped, to arrive, ss, oth4rs 4s 7d, Gartons and Sparrowbills 4s Bd, Duns 4s 9d'; Russian barley Cape seed, 6s; barley, feed ss; barley meal, £7 15s per ton; pollard, £B;per ton; bran, £5 5s to £5 10s per ton; linseed, oil cake, slabs, meal, and nuts £13 per ton of 20001b, 100's 13s, 50's 6s 9d; chaff, oaten sheaf £6 to £6 10s per ton; molasses, in - casks, 28s per cask (casks extra); straw, £3 10s par ton ex store; dressed pork, 70's to 90' ie 6Jd, 90,'s to 100's 6d, baconers sd, choppers (heavy) 3d to 4d, suckers 7d to 8d per lb; honey, 5d to 6d per lb; eggs, fresh, 2s 9d' per dozen.