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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 September 1910, Page 1

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NZ. FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., U~. WEEKL? REPORT. (Special to "The Horowhenua Chronicle.") For the convenience of the farming community, "The Chronicle is reprinting from day to day, doring the autumn season, the'JJo**-o**-tione of prices current as i&ned by the Farmers' Distributing Company :— WELLINGTON, Sep'tember 15. Potatoes are very firm, with short supplies. Large importations from Australia are arriving each week. Local brown Spanish onions are coming to hand in splendia condition, and meeting (ready sale. Vegetables of all kinds are in much better supply. Large supplies of Tasmanian apples have eased the market, and locals are lower. Australian fruits this week meet with ready sale. Enquiries for eggs is brisk", with small supplies. An early advance in price seems inevitable. Walnuts and poultry are both eagerly enquired for. The business for the year just closing shown an increase of £10,000 { as against any previous year. This is highly satisfactory, and as the outlook indicates that an even greater increase will come out way this season, the directors have decided to double our floor space. Alterations are now being completed, and the additional space, which is lighted with direct overhead skylights, will make our sale rooms second to none in the city.

Potatoes, prime, £8 to £9 per ton Potatoes, seed, specially selected. Canterbury up-to-dates, £7 10a to £8 per ton. Onions, Australian, £7 per ton. local, £6. Pickling onions, local, 7e owt.

Garlic, 3d per lb. Cabbage, choice, 6s to 9s j ordinary, 3s to 4s 6d per sack; poor, 9d to Is 6d per sack. Cauliflower, choice, 7s 6d to 9s; others, 3s to 4s 6d. Nelson green peas, 2s 6d peok. Carrots, Hutt, 6d doz., and 4s 3d per sack. Turnips, white, 6d dozen. Swedes, 2a to 2s 6d sack. Vegetable marrows, 2s 6d to 3s per sack. Pumpkins, 3s to 3s 6d sack. Pie melons, 3s t o4s per sack. Letuce, choice, 4s 6d; fair, 2s 6d to 3s per case. Spinach, best, 3s per case. Rhubarb, hothouse, 5d to 6d bdl. Spring onions, 10d doz bdls. Apples, cookers, large, 4s 6d to 7s 6a; small, 3s to 4s case.

Apples, dessert, well coloured, 7s to 9s 6d; others, 4s to 5s 6d per case.

Passion fruit, 10s 6d. Pineapples, 10s to 11s 6d. Mandarines, Gins, extra quality, 14s; bushels, 10s; packers, 9s. Oranges, bushels, 9s; packers, 7s. Seville oranges, ss. Butter, separator, 10d; dairy, 9Jd per lb. *' Cheese, best factory mediums, 6jd per lb; loaf, 7d per lb. Dressed pork, 70's to 90's sd; 90's to 100's 4.Jd; 4d to 4id; choppers (heavy), 2Jd to 3id. Eggs, fresh, lid dozen. Bacon, factory sides 7d, rolls 8d: haYns, 9d per lb. Honey, 4d lb. J3eeswax, Is 4d to Is 6d per lb. Fungus, keen demand afc s}d per lb.

Walnuts, 5Jd lb. Wanted. Tallow, tins, 24s cwt. Wool, sheepskins and hides, special sale on Sept. 23, 1910. Poultry: Cockerels, 5s 6d to 6s 6d for good birds; small, 3s 6d; table roosters, 4s to ss; table hens, 3s 6d; small, 2s 6d; ducks, large, 5s to 6s 6d ;small, 3s 6d per pair; turkey gobblers, 9d per lb; hens, B<l per lb live weight. Maize, 3s 9d per bushel. Wheat, 3s 10d per bushel. Barley, feed, 3s 3d per bushel. Barley, Cape seed, 3s 6d bushel. Horse beans. 4s 9d bushel. Partridge peas, 6s 6d per bushel. Prussian Blue peas, 6s 6di bush. Barley meal, £b per ton. Sharps, £6 15s per ton. Pollard, £6 10s per ton. Oat pollatd, 2s 6d sack of about BOlbs. Bran, £4 10a to £4 15s per ton. Chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 to £5 10s per ton. Oaten straw chaff, £3 15s ton. Hay, prime, £3 10s to £4 10s per ton. Straw, wheaten, £2 10s per ton. Straw, oaten, £2 7s 6d per ton. Oats, seed, Sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d; Algerians, 3s 3d per bushel. Oats, feed, 2s 4d to 2a 83 bushel. Oats, crushed 2s 8d pec bushel. Cocoanut oil cake, Bs per cwt. Linseed oil cake (genuine), £13 per ton. Sucrosine, £6 10s per ton. Lime, crushed, agricultural, 20s per ton, delivered free at any railway station in truck loads. Superphosphates (best), £5 per ton; 5s less for ton or more. Basic Slag, high grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton.