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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 February 1912, Page 1

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XKW-ZEALAND FARMERS , COOPERATIVE DISIIUBUTiNG 00. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to, the "Horowhenua Chronicle.") WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. Potatoes advanced about 15s per ton during the week, and remained so for si few days, but have now come back again to the closiug prices of last week. Wo do not advise our clients to hold. A few Auckland onions are coming in, but the quality is inferior. Good lines would find ready sale, but values must decline considerably during the noxt week or two. FIIUIT. A fair sized shipment 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 are 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 cabbage fair demand. Marows weaker, and in large supply. Eggs are unchanged. Porkers slightly weaker. Butter is in splendid demand. Our reports are to the effect that honey will be in snort supply this Reason, and high prices may ho looked for. We have a good sale for farmers' lots of fat and tallow. Poultry is still plentiful. CLEARING SALE.-On Wednesday last wo held a clearing sale at the Willow Dale Poultry Farm, Lower Hutt, and excellent prices were obtained for all lines, the whole of which wero cleared. For the purebred lots the following figures were realised :—Black Orpington pullets, 8s to 11s Gd; hens, 5s to 6s; White Leghorn pullete, 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 6d; choico, 3s to 4s per sack. Carrots.—3s Od per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice, 7s to 10s per sack. Broad beans.—ls 6d bag. French beans. to 22d per lb. Green pons. —Hutt, 3s 6d to 4s per contnl bag. Marmw.s. —2is to 3s per case. Rhubarb.—ls to 2s per dozen. Swedes.—2s 6d to 3s per ewt. Turnips.—White, 2s 6d per sack. Lettuce.—Fair, 2s; choice, 4r to as per ca.se. Plums.—Burbank, 2s to 2s 6d; others, Iβ Gd to 2s per half case. Grccngnges.— 5s to 5s 6d per half case. Nectarines.—3s 6d to 4s 6d per half case. IWsions.---Local, 7s to 8s 6d per half case. Raspberries.—6s Gd to 7s per full bucket. Apples.—Cooking, 3.s 6d to 4s por case; dessert, 5s to 6s per caso. Apricots.--5s Gd to 6s case. Strawberries.—6d to 8d por punnut, Bananas.—Repacked, 20a. Pears.—Australian, 17s to 18s per case. Tomatoes.— on to 9s 6d lualf ca.se. Peaches.--2s Gd to 3b 6d half case. Cheese.--Best factory mediums, 7d; loaf, 7-Jd per lb. Droned pork.—7o's to 90's, sd; 90'ti to lOO's, 4ijd to sd; baconers, ■1-id ; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3J. Eggs.-I' , rash, 10d to lid per dozen. Butter.-Separator, 10d; dairy, 9ld to lOd per lb. Bacon.—Factory sides, 9d; rolls, 9;{<l; hams, 9d j)er lb. Honey.— por lb. Slow of «ale. Beeswax.—ls 4d per lb. Fungus.—4d per lb. Tialknv.— Tins. 23s per cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels, tfs Gd to 4s for goo dbirds; table roosters, 3s Gd; table hens, "is Gd to 3s 6d; ducks, 4s to os 6d per pair; turkey gobbler, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize.—lg 3d per bus. Ten sack lots, 4s 2d. Wheat.— 4s 3d per bus. Ten sack 10t.,, 4s 6d. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£' 6 per ton . B'ir'ev meal. —CO 10s per ton. Ton lots', -.C 6 ss. Mnizo meal.—£B 10s per ton. Ton [(>{«, £8 5,s per ton. Chaff. Oaten sheaf, old, £5 to £5 los; new, £4 10s to £4 15s per ton. Hay.—Prime, £4 10s per ton. Pucrofiinc.—£7 per ton. All A. and P. Company's stock foods at manufacturer's prices. Straw.— Whentoii. £3 15s; oaten, €3 15s pov ton. Linseed oil cake.—Genuine, £13 per ton. Cocoaunt oil cake.—Bs 6d per cwt. [ Oats—Feed, new, 3s; old, 3r 4d per bushoL Oats.—Crushed, 3s 6d per bushel. Seed, Capo barley.— 4s 4d per bushel. Vapovite destroys wireworms and all other soil pests, 34s per 2-cwt. cak, or 20s por cwt. 12s 6d per 56 lbs. • '_ Teas.—Choicest blends, oibs and 101b tins, Golden Tip, Iβ 6d per Tb. Tea.—Ceylon, in 51b tins, Is 4d per lb. Same .in 5 tin lots, Is 3d 'per lb. .■.„■■■