Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 February 1912, Page 4

Commercial.

NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to the "Horowhenua Chronicle.") WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. Potatoes advanced about 15s per ton during the week, and remained so for a few days, but have now como back again to the closing prices of last week. We do not advise our clients to hold. A few Auckland onions are coming in, but tho quality is inferior. Good lines would find ready sale, but values must decline considerably during tho noxt week or two.

FRUIT. A fair sized shipmont of Sydney pears reached us on Wednesday, and met an excellent sale. Very small lots now arrive from Australia as supplies there of all fruits aro very scarce. Local apricots, nectarines, and greengages make very fair prices, and peaches are firmer. Plums are at bedrock, and apples are now weaker. Tomatoes are still maintaining high values, .and are in short supply. VEGETABLES. — French beans and good cauliflower always command satisfactory sale. Swedes, good lettuce and 1 cabbage fair demand. Marowfi weaker, and in large supply. Eggs are unchanged. Porkers slightly weaker. Butter is in splendid domand. Our reports are to the effect that honey will be in short supply bhis season, and high prices may be looked for. Wo have a good salo for farmers' Jots of fat and tallow. Poultry is . still plentiful. CLEARING SALE.—On Wednesday last we held a clearing salo at tho Willow Dale Poultry Farm, Lower Hutt, and excellent prices were obtained for. all linos, the whole of which wero cleared. For tho purebred lots the following figures were realised :—Black Orpington pullets, 8s to lis fid; hens, 5s to Gs: White Leghorn pullets, 7s; hens, 4s to 5s per pair. Potatoes.—Hutt. £4 to £5 10s; others, £4 per ton. Onions.—Globes, £12 per ton. Cabbage.—Fair, 2s to 2s fid; choice, 3s to 4s per sack. Carrots.— 3s Gd per sack. Cauliflower. - Choico, 7s to ltts per sack.

Broad beans.—l s Gd bag. French beans.—2}d to 2-Jd per lb. Green poas.--Hutt, 3s 6d to 4s per cental bag. Marrows,—2fi to 3.s per ca.so. Rhubarb.—ls to 2s per dozen. Swedes.—2s fkl to 3s per cwt. Turnips.—"White, 2s f*l per sack. _ Lettuce—Fair, 2s; choice, 4s to os per case. Plums.—Burl Kink, 2s to 2s Od ; others. Is fkl to 2s per half case. Greengages.-os to r, s 6(1 per half case. Xoctarine.s.—Us fkl to 4s 6d per half case. Passions.—Local, 7s to 8s Gd per half case. Raspberries.—Gs Gd to 7s por full bucket. Apples.--Cooking, 3s 6d to Is per case; dessert, 5s to Gs jier ease. Apricots.—sm Gd to Gs ease. Strawberries.—Gd to 8d per punnot, Hananas.—Repacked, 20s. Peal's.—Australian, 17s to 18s por case. Tomatoes.'—ss to 9s Cxi half ease. Peaches.—2s Gd to 3s Gd half case. Cheese.—Best factory mediums, 7d; loaf, 7Jd per lb. Dressed pork.--70' s to 90's, 5d ; ft to 100's, 4id to od; bflconers, •IId; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3*. -%gs.— Fresh, lOd to lid per dozen. Butter.—Separator, lOd; dairy, 9Jd to 10d por lb. Bacon.—Factory sides, Od; rolls, 9:ld ; hams, 9d per lb. Honey.-3id per lb. Slow of sale.

Beeswax. —Is 4d per lb. Fungus.— 4d per lb. Tallow*.—Tins, 23s per cwt. Poultry-—Cockerels, 3 S Gd to Is for goo dbirds; table roosters, 3s Od; ta'ble hens, 2k Gd to 3s (id ; ducks, 4s to os Gd per pair; turkey gobbler, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize.—4k 3d per bus. Ten sacklots, 4s 2d. Wheat.—4s 8d per bus. Ten sacklots, 4s 6d. Pollard—£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£6 per ton . Barley meal.—£6 10s per ton. Ton lots, £6 ss. Maize meal.—£B Ift? per ton. Ton lot#?, £8 5s per ton. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf, old, £5 to £o 15s, new, £4 10s to £4 15s per ton. Hay. Prime, £4 10s per ton. Sncrosine.—£7 per ton. All A. and P. Company's stock foods at manufacturer's prices. Straw.-Wheaton, £3 15b; oaten, £3 15s per ton. Linseed oil cake.—Genuine, £13 per ton. Coeoaunt oil cake.-8s 6d per cwt. Oats.—Feed, new, 3s; old, 3r 4d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed, 3« Gd per 'bushel. Qape barley.-4 S 4d per bushel. \ aporit-o destroys wireworms and all other soil pests, ,34s per 2-cwt. cak, or 20s per cwt. 12s Gd per 5G lbs. Teas—Choicest blends, Gibs and 10Jb tins, Golden Tip, Is 6d per lb. Tea.—Qeyloh, in 51b tins, Is 4d per lb. Same in 5 tin lots, Is 3d per lb.