PALMER'S MARKET REPORT.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1135, 16 March 1910, Page 4

PALMER'S MARKET REPORT.

Mr Harry Palmer reports a moderate entry of pigs, confined principally to_ weaners, slips and stores, very lew porkers offering. We had a very big entry of poultry of splendid allround quality, and prices showed a distinct improvement. There is a | scarcity of vegetables, such as cabbage, carrots, and parsnips. Potatoes are firm in price, and there is a good demand for sound samples. Onions are now more plentiful, and prices are easier. We-have had an exceptionally heavy week with fruit, over 2000 cases of Hawke's Bay and colonial fruit being handled. Prices are on a par with previous quotations, pears and 'peaches slightly easier; tomatoes slight improvement. We quote: Weaners 3s 6d, 4s 6d, os, 5s 6(1, 6s; slips 6s Gd, 7s 7s Gd; stores, Bs, 9s, 10s; porkers, 17s, ISs, ISs 6d. Poultry.—Turkey gobblers, 9s 6d to 10s 3d; ducks, 3s to 5s 6d, average 4s 6d; cockerels, prime 4s to os 6d, average 4s 6d; half-grown and chickens, Is to 4s pair; pullets, 3s 9d to ss; hens, 2s 3d to 4s, average 3s 6d Fruit.—Pears 2s 6d, 3s Gd, 4s &d, :"s 6d; peaches, 2s, 2s 6d, 3s, 4s; plums, zs to 3s 6d; tomatoes, Is, Is 6d, 2s, 2s 6d; cucumbers. Is; apples, 2s', 2s fid, 3s od, 4s 6d, cooking and dessert; quinces, id to Id lb.; onions, 7s to 6s cwt; pumpkins, Is to Is 6d each, per sacks 4s: marrows, 2« 6d : pig potatoes, 2s 6d; prime table potatoes, IQs to lis sack; inferior, touched with blight, 4s to 7s; wheat, 18s; pollard, 9s -4<l; barley, 9s, 10s; chaff, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; bacon, rolled and sides, 6tl Clearing sales well attended and sales of furniture good.