PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 17, 19 July 1918, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

_,The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tiye Distributing Company reports prices to>day as follow : —

,Vegeta,bles.—Potatoes, prime: white £8 15s to £9 10s per ton; cabbage, choice 4a" to 7s 6d sack; cauliflower, 12s 6d to! 21s snick; "carrpts, best 5s to 6s sack; onions, £20 ton; turnips, white 3s to 5s sack; lettuce, choice 3s to 7s 6d case; beetroot, 2s 6d to 5s sack; spring onions, 84 bundle; parsnips, 6s to 10s sack; marrows, 5s sack; swedes, 3s cwt. ; pumpkins, 7s to. 10s sack; . celery, 4s doz. ; leeks, 6d to 8d bundle ; artichokes, l^d lb.

—Apples, dessert, 6s to 7s 6d fnjll case, cooking 4s to 6s full case; pears cooking 5s fall case, dessert 7s 6d .Produce.—Wheat, good whole fowl, 7s 6d bushel; maize, 7s 6d bushel; oats, feed Ss 6d to 5s 9d bushel, crushed 5s 8d to' 5s 9d bashel; seed oats, Australian— Algerians, dres3ed and clipped 6s 8d to 6s 9d, Gartens and Sparrowbills 5s 6d to 5s 9d bushel; barley feed, 6s 6d bnshel;. ricemeal, £9 10s per ton; pollard, supplies very short; bran, supplies very short; linseed oil cake, slabs, meal, aftd nuts £13 10s per ton of 20001bs, 100"s 13s 6d, 50s 6s 9d;- molasses, in casks, supplies short; rock salt, 18s cwt; chaff, oaten sheaf £10 10s to £11 ton; straw, £5 ton, ex-store; dressed pork, 60's to 90's Bid to B§d; 90's to 140's 7^d to 8d; baconers, 7£d; choppers, 4d to 5d per lb ; honey, supplies short; eggs, fresh 2s 3d dozen.