PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 41, 16 August 1918, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Distributing Company report prices to-day as follow:—

Vegetables.—Potatoes, prime, £12 to £12 10s per ton; cabbage, choice, 8s to 9s A?er sack; cauliflower, 10s to 15s per sack; carrots, best, 3s to 5s 6d per sack; onions, Victorian, £31 to £32 per ton; turnips, white, 3s to 3s 6d per sack ; lettuce, choice, 5s to 6s per case; beetroot, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per sack; spring onions, 8d per bundle; parsnips, 5s to Bs> 6d per sack; marrows, 3s to 3s 6d per sack; swedes, 2s to 2s 6d per ewt.; tomatoes, Is 6d per lb; pumpkins, 6s 6d to 7s 6d per sack; celery, 4s to 5s per dozen; leeks, 8d to lOd per bundle; artichokes, Id per lb; rhubarb, 8d per dozen bunches.

Fruit.—Apples, dessert, 7s to 8s per fujl case; apples, cooking, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per full case; pears, cooking, 5s to 6s per full case. ,

Produce.—.»neat, good whole fowl, 7s (id per bushel; maize, 7s 6d per bushel; oats, feed, 5s 9d to 5s lOd per bushel; oats," crushed, 5s lOd to 5s lid per bushel; seed oats, Australian-Algerians, dressed and clipped, 6s 6d to 6s Sd, Gartons and Sparrowbills, 5s 8d to 5s 9d per bushel; Russian barley Cape seed, supplies short; barley feed, 6s to 6s 3d per bushel; rice meal, £9 per ton; pollard, supplies very short; bran, supplies very short; linseed oil cake, slabs, meal, and nuts, £13 10s per ton of 20001b; 100's, 13s 6d, 50's,' 6s 9d; molasses (in casks), Australian, 50s per cask; rock sale, 18s per cwt.; chaff, oaten sheaf, prime, £11 to £11 10s to £12 pro- ton; straw, £5 per ton, ex store; dressed pork, 60's to 90's B^d to BJd, 90's to 140's 7£d to Bid, baconers 7£d, choppers Id to 5d per lb ; honey, supplies short; eggs, fresh, Is lOd per dozen.