PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 41, 17 August 1917, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Company reports prices today as follow: —Vegetables : Cabbage choice, 5s to 10s per sack; cauliflower, 10s to 20s per sack; carrots best, 7s to 8s 6d ; onions local, £17 per ton; turnips* white, 4a per sack; lettuce choice, 3s od to 6s 6d per sack; beetroot, 10s ito 12s ; spring onions, 8d per bundle; parsnips, 5s to 8s per sack; marrows, 4s to 8s per sack ; swedes, 3s per sack; pumpkins, 8s per sack; celery, 5s per dozen; leeks, 8d to Is per bundle; artichokes, 2d per lb. Fruit: Apples dessert, 8s to 11s per full case; apples cooking, 6s to 10s pet full case; pears dessert, 7s 6d per halfcase ; pears cooking, 12s per'full case. Potatoes, prime, £5 to £5 5s ton; potatoes, seed, at market rates; wheat, good whole fowl, 6s lOd to 7s bushel; maize, 5s 9d to 6s bushel; oats, feed, is 9d bushel; oats, crushed," 5s ■ bushel; seed oats, Australian—Algerians, dressed and clipped, to J arrive, ss; others, 4s 9d; Gartons and Sparrowbills, 4s 9d; Russian barley Cape seed, 6s bushel; barley feed, 5s bushel; pollard, £9 ton; bran, £6 ton; ricemeal, £7 10s; linseed oil cake—slabs, meal, and nuts, £13 per ton of 20001bs; 100's, 13s; 50's 6s 9d; chaff, oaten sheaf, £7 10s to £8 ton; molasses, 30s per sowt, casks extra; straw, £4 10s per iton ex store. Dressed pork—7o's to 90's, 7d to 7^d; 90's to 100's, 6^d to 7d; baconers, 6d; choppers (heavy), 3d to 4d per lb. Honey, 5d to 6d per lb. Eggs, fresh, Is 4d to Is 5d per doz.