PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 41, 16 February 1918, Page 10

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company report th« following produce prices ruling to-day: Produce.—Wheat,' good whole : fowl, 7s 6d to 7s 9d bushel; maize, 7s 3d per bushel; oats, feed,- 4s 6d to 4s. 9d per bushel; oats crushed, 5s 2d per bushel; seed, oats (Australian), Algerians, dressed and clipped, 5s 3d and 5s 6d; Gartons and Sparrowbills, 4s 9d -per bushel; Russian barley, Cape seed, 6s 6d per bushel; barley feed, 5s 6d per bushel; rice meal, £8 10s;'pig meal, £8; pollard, supplies very short; 'bran, supplies very short;, linseed oil cake—slabs, meal, and nuts, £13 10s per ton of 20001b; molasses, 35s per 5-cwt, casks extra; chaff, oaten sheaf, £8 to £9 per ton; straw, £5 10s peiTton, ex store; [dressed pork—6o's to 90's, 8d to BJ,d; 90's k> HO's, 1\& to Sd; baconers, 7d; choppers, 3d to 5d per lb; honey, 6d per lb; eggs, fresh. Is lOd per dozen.

• Vegetables.—'Potatoes,' prime white, £5 to £12 per ton; cabbage, choice, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack; cauliflower, 8s to 12s per sack; carrots, best, 5s to Bs.per sack; onions, £8 per ton; turnips, white, 3s to 6s per sack; lettuce, choice, 2s 6d to 7s 6d per sack; French beans. 4s 6d per, part sack; beetroot, 6? to 8s per sack; spring onions, 6d to Is per bundle; parsnips, 7s to 8s 6d per sack; marrows, 2s to 4s per sack; Swedes, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per ewt; tomatoes, 3s to 6s per case;' celery, 3s per dozen; green peas, Is per peck; rhubarb, 5s to 6s dozen bunches; cucumbers, Is to Is 6d half-bushel.

Fruit.—Grapes, Is 2d to Is 6d per lb; peaches, 4s to 6s per case; apricots, 8s half-case; apples, dessert, 5s to Bs, per case; apples, cooking, 4s to 5s per case; pears, dessert, Ss to 8s per case; nectarines, 4s 6d to 6s per case; blackberries,. 3d per lb.