PIGS AND POULTRY.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 75, 26 September 1938, Page 12

PIGS AND POULTRY.

The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, reports a fair yarding of pigs at their weekly sale on Thursday, prices for all classes showing a slight increase on last week's rates. There was an absence of heavy porkers. A few" light weights sold from 35s to 40s. Good stores sold freely at 33s to 355, and best weaners from 20s to 235. Poultry again was in heavy supply with a particularly good demand for hens and ducks. Large quantities of vegetables are now coming forward and selling freely at reduced rates. An improvement in the price of fruit was noticeable. Quotations: — Pigs.—Best weaners from 20s to 235; medium weaners, 18s 6d; slips, 24s to 26s 6d; good stores, 33s 3d to 355; medium stores, 27s 6d to 30s; light porkers, 35s to 40s; breeding sow, £3 12s 6d.

Poultry.—Best-WX. hens, 8s 6d to 10s per pair; heavy 8.0. hens, 8s to 10s per pair; light, hens, 6s to 7s per pair; ducks, 5s to 9s per pair; cockerels, 5s to 7s per pair; turkeys, hens 7s 3d each, 8 weeks old cockerels 3s dozen, hens and chicks to 15s.

Fruit and Produce.—Apples: Delicious 7s to Bs, Rome Beauty 7s to 7s 6d, Fremley Beautys fa's to 7s, Stunners 7s to 7s 6d, Doughertys 4s to ss, Ballarats 5s to 5s 6d, Washingtons 4s to 6s; pears, Winter Cole 7s to 8s 6d, P. Barrys 7s to 8s; lemons, 8s to 10s 6d; pumpkins, Triumble 16s to 22s 6d sack, greys 12s to 15s sack; cauliflowers, 5s to 10s 6d sack; spring cabbages, 2s to 5s 6d case; lettuce, 2s to 7s case; spinach, 5s to 7s case; carrots, 2s to 5s 6d case; parsnips, 5s to 10s case; rhubarb, 5s to 10s (id dozen; leeks, 8s to 10s case; turnip, lid to Is,3d dozen; marrows, 2s 6d case. ,