PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 70, 22 March 1918, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The New Zealand Farmers' po-opera-tive Distributing Co. reports' market quotations to-day as follow:—Vegetables.—Potatoes, prime white, £5 to £7 per ton; cabbage; choice, 2s 6d to 3s per sack; cauliflower, 8s to 14s per sack; carrots, best, 3s. to 4s per sack; onions, £6 to £7 10s' per ton 1; turnips, white, 4s to 5s per sack; lettuce, choice, 2s to 4s per case; French beans, Is 10.2s 6d per bag; beetroot, 6s per sack; spring onions, 8d per bundle;'parsnips, 7s to 8s 6d per sack; marrows, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack; swedes, Is 6d to 2s per cwt; tomatoes, 5s to 7s per case; pumpkins, 5s to 7s 6d' per sack; celery, 5s "per dozen; leeks, 8d per bundle; rhubarb, 5s per dozen bunches.

Fruit.—Apples, dessert, 4s to 7s 6d per full case; apples', cooking,~3s to 5s per full ■ case; pears, cooking, 4s to 6s per full case; plums, 3s to 4s per case; quinces, 3s to 5s ncr case.

VKJ OB Obi -Produce.—Wheat; good whole fowl, 7b 6d to 7s 9d bushel; maize, 7s 6d per bushel; oats, feed, 5s to 5s 4d bushel; oats, crushed, 5s '4d bushel; seed oats, Australian, Algerians, dressed and clipr ped, 5s to 6s, G-artons and Sparrowbills, 5s 6d to 5s 9d bushed'; Russian baxley, Cape seed, 7s M bushel;- barley- feed, I 6s 6d bushel; rice meal, supplies short ; pollard, supplies very short; bran, supplies very short; linseed oil cake, slabs, meaJ, and nuts, £13 10s per ton of 2000 Ib, 100's, 13a 6d, 50's 1, 6s 9d ; molasses, in casks, supplies short/; rock salt, 18s cwt; chaff, oaten sheaf, £9 10s to £10 ton; straw, £5 ton, ex store; dressed pork, 60's to 90's, Bid, 90's to 140's, 7^-d to'-Bd, baconers, 7jd to Bd, choppers, 5d to 6d lb: honey, 7d, supplies short; eggs, fresh. 2s 3d to 2s 4d dozen.