PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 65, 14 September 1917, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The New • Zealand, Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Co. reports prices today as follow: — > ',:■.-

Vegetables.—Cabbage, choice 5s to 8s 6d per sack, cauliflower 14s to 20s per. sack, carrots'. (best) 4s to 6s sack, onions £23 ton, turnips (white) 4s 6d to 5s 6d sack, lettuce (choice) 3s to 8s sack, beetroot 13s sack, spring onions 8d bundle, parsnips 5s to 7s sack, marrows 9s sack, swedes 4s to 8s sack, pumpkins 9s 6d sack, celery 6s doz, leeks lid bundle, artichokes 2d lb, rhubarb 12s doz. bunches, cucumbers. 6s to 8s doz. (hothouse) . ■Fruit.—Apples, dessert, 13s to 15s full case; apples, cooking, lls t0.,135, full case; pears, local W.G. choice dessert, 10s 6d full case; pears, local, cooking, 9s od full case.

Produce.—Potatoes prime £5 10s to £6, seed at market rates; wheat, good whole fowl 7s 3d to 7s 6d ; maize, 5s 9d to 6s per bushel; oats, feed ,4s 9d per bushel, crushed 5s per bu6hel; seed oats (Australian), Algerians dressed-'add clipped 5s 6d, others 45.9d 3 Gartons and Sparrowbills 4e 9d per bushel; Russian, barley Cape seed, 6s per bushel; barley feed, 5s per bushel; pollard 1,- £9 10s per ton; bran, £6 10s per ton ; ricemeal, £7 15s per ton ; linseed oil cake, slabs, meal, and mite'£l3 per ton 1 of 20001b, 100's 13s, 50's 6s 9d; chaff, oaten sheaf £7 10s to £8 15e per ton; molasses, in casks 30s per scwt; straw, £5 per ton,- ex store ; dressed pork, 70's to 90?s 7d to 7^dj 90's ft> 100's 6^d to 7d, baconei'S 6d, choppers (heavy) 3d to 4d per Ib;' honey, 5d to od per lb ; eggs, fresh la 5d per dozen.