PIGS, POULTRY, AND PRODUCE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 3

PIGS, POULTRY, AND PRODUCE.

"' The Dominion, Auctioneering \ Company, Palmerstori North, reports:—The largest yarding of pies of the year came forward-at Thursday's fair, every pen being taxed to the utmost. Thera was a consequent small declining price / for weariers and slips, but ah excellent demand 'still prevailed for stores' and porkers. Poultry was in good demand with the price a little easier on last week's rates. An abundant supply of vegetables and fruit, was keenly sought after with brisk competition for all lines. We quote as follows:— Pigs.—Small weaners, 14s to 17s; better, to 235; slips, to ■ 295; ■ stores, up to 355; light, porkers, 40s, 465, 51s, 535; sows .to farrow, £3 10s and £4; sow with small litter. £5 10s; pedigree Berkshire boar, £5 55.: - Poultry.—Heavy cockerels, from 8a 6d to 9s per pair; light cockerels, from 7s to 9s per pair; fat roosters, from 7s rto 8s per pair; light roosters, from 6s to 7s lOd per pair; best W.L. hens, from 7s 6d to 8s per pair; B.L. hens, from 8s to 9s per pair; light hens, from ' 6s ■to 7s per pair; ducks,, from 5s 6d [to 7s 6d per pair; drakes, from 7s to 8s per pair; cluckey hens, from 3s to 6s each: small cockerels, sJ'd to 6Jd each,, hens and chicks, from 10s to 13s. Fruit—Pears, Winter Coles 8s to 113 per three-quarter case; apples. • Deli« cious, from 8s 6d to 12s per busheL Ballarats from 8s 6d to 10s 6d; Stur« mers from.Bs to 9s 9d, Granny Smiths from 8s 6d to lls 6d, Doughertys from 6s 6d to 8s 6d; lemons, from 7s to 14s per case;/celery, from 12s to 16s;.carrots, from 3s n to 4s \per sugar bag; let- - tuce, from 2s 9d to 15s per case; onions, from 6s to 16s per cental; pumpkins, from 18s 6d- to 22s per sack; spinach, from 5s to 8s per case; cabbage, fron» is to 7s 6d per sack; spring cabbaee. from 2s 6d to 6s 6d per case; cauliflowers, from 4s to 12s 9d per sackj parsnips, from 6s 6d to 7s 6d per case; Brussels sprouts, from 10s 3d to 18s2 ,->ek!' fF? m 5s to 7s 6d; potatoes, from i-ss to 14s per cwt..