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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 99, 8 April 1911, Page 5

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AVEEKLY PRODUCE REPORT. Wellington, April 6. The New Zealand Farmers’ Cooperative Distributing Co., Ltd., report as follows Potatoes have advanced considerably , and for prime lines of Southern grown we have obtained at recent sales as high as £6. It is, however, hardly likely that they will rise much higher. Onions have also risen somewhat. Vegetables are unchanged. Cooking apples are higher and in better demand. Keen, enquiries for good well-coloured desserts. Quinces aie now advancing. Eggs are unchanged, although a rise should take place next week in anticipation of Easter demand. AA r e sold a small snipment of walnuts this week at 7d per lb, and strongly recommend further consignments. Potatoes —Prime, £5 to £5/10/per ton. Onions—Globes, £4/10/- to £5 per ton. Cabbage—2/6 to 4/- per sack. Green Peas—Hutt, 1/- per peck. French Beans—lu per lb. Carrots —2/6 per sack. Swedes —1/6 sack. Cauliflower —6/- to 7/- per sack. Marrows —1/- per sack. Turnips—White, 4d to 5d doz. Lettuce—2/- per case. Pumpkins—3/- to 3/6 per sack. Rhubarb —1/6 to 2/- doz. Blackberries —21d per lb. Cucumbers —2/6 per Cape Gooseberries—3ld per lb. Peaches —2/- to 4/- l-case. Dessert Apples—s/6 to 8/- per case.

Cooking Apples—4/- to 4/6 per case. Tomatoes—2/- to 4/- per Lease. Pears —Dessert, 4/- to 5,1- per icase; cookers, 5/- to 6/- per case. Grapes —Ud per lb. Quinces — -4/- to 4/6 per case. Butter —Separator, 9id to lOd; Dairy, 9d to 9ld per lb. Cheese —Best factory mediums, sfd per lb ; loaf, 7d per lb Dressed Pork —70’s to 90’s 4|d ta •lid ; 90’s to 100’s 4d ; baconers, 3jd; choppers (heavy) 2|d. Eggs—Fresh, 1/4 to 1/5 per doz. Bacon—Factory sides 7d, roll* Od ; hams, 9|d per in. Honey—3|d per lb. Slow of sale. Beeswax—l/6 per lb. Fungus—4|d per lb. Walunts—6d to 7d per lb. Tallow —Tins, 25/- cwt. Poultry—Cockerels, 5/6 for good birds; table roosters, 5/-; table hens, 3/6 ; ducks, 5/- per pair; turkey gobblers, 9d to lOd per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize—3/6 per bus. . Wheat—4/- per bus. Barley (feed) —3/3 per bus. Barley (Cape)—3/10 per bus. Dun Peas—4/- per bushel. Pollard—£7 per ton. £B/15/- in ton lots. Oat Pollard' — 2/6 sack of abouii 901 b. Bran—£s/10/- per ton. Molasses ' Fodder—£4/15/- per ton. Chaff—Oaten Sheaf, £5/10/- per ton. Hay—Prime, £4 to £4/15/- per ton. Sucrosine—£6/10/- per ton. Straw—Wheaten, £2/15/- per ton. Linseed Oil Cake —Genuine, £l3 per ton. Cocoanut Oil Cake —8/- per cwt. Oats—A grade, 3/- per bushel. Oats —Seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, Black Tartars, 3/3? Algerian, and Storm Kings, 3/6 per bus. Oats—Crushed, 3/3 per bus.