PRODUCE PRICES

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 77, 27 September 1918, Page 8

PRODUCE PRICES

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The New Zealand Fanners' Co^peraDistributing Coimpany report to-day that current rates for produce are as follows : Vegetables.—Potatoes, ' prime £11 to £11 5s per ton; cabbage, choice 6s to 8s 6d sack; cauliflower, 8s 6d to 15s sack; carrots, best 3s to 6a sack; cucumbers (hot house), 6s to 10s dozen; onions, Victorian, £24 to £26 ton;" turnips, -white 5s sack; lettuce, choice 4s to 7s 6d case; beetroot, 4s to 7s 6d sack; spring onions, Is bundle; parsnips, 6s to 12s sack; swedes, 5s cwt; pumpkins, 15s sack; celery, 4s to 6s dozen; leeks, 6d to 8d bundle; artichokes, lid lb; rhubarb, ss' to 8s dozen bunches. '

Fruit.—Apples, desßert, 12s to 13s per full case; apples; cooking, 7s» 6d to 10s per full icase; pears, dessert, 8s 6d per half-case.

Produce.—Wheat, good whole fowl, 7s 6d per bushel; maize feed, 8s bushel; maiza seed, Hickory Kingv and Early. Learning, each 10s bush; oats;feedSslid to 6s Id per.bushel; oats, crushed, 63 bushel; seed oats, Australian—Algerians, dressed and' clipped, 6s 8d to 6s 9d; Gartons and Sparrowbills, supplies short. Russian barley Cape seed, supplies short; barley feed, 6s to 6s 3d bushel; rice meal, £9 ton; pollard, supplies very short; bran, supplies very short; linseed oil cake; slabs, meal, and nuts, £13 10s-ton'of 2000 lb; 100's, 13s 6d. Molasses: Australian, 40s per cask, cask included ; rock salt, supplies short; chafß: oaten sheaf, prime, £12 10s to £13 ton; straw, supplies short; dressed pork: 60's to 90's lOd, 100's to 120's B£d; baconers, 8d; choppers, 4d to d 51b; honey, supplies short; eggs, fresh Is 6d doz.