COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 February 1912, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

MOW ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO. WLJHKLY REPORT. (Special to the "Horowhenua. Chronicle.") WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. Potatoes (advanced about 15s per ton during the week, and remained so lor a few days, but have now come back again to tho closing prices of last week. Wo do not advise our clients to hold. A few Auckland onions are coining in, but tho quality is inferior. Good lines would find ready sale, 'hut values must decline considerably during the next week or two. FRUIT. 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 tiliere of all fruits are very scarce. Local apricots, nectarines, and greengages make very fair prices, and peaches arc 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 largo supply. Eggs are unchanged. Porkere slightly weaker. Butter is in splendid demand. Our reports are to the effect that honey will ho in short supply this season, and high prices may be 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 tho 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 lis (3d ; hens, 5s to 6s; 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 6d; choice, 3s to 4s per sack. Car rote.—3s 6d per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice, 7s to 10s per sack. Broad beans.--Is 6d bag. French beans.—2Jd to 2;id per. lb. Green pens.—Hutt, 3s 6d to 4s per cental bag. Marrows.—2k to 3s per case. Rhubarb.—ls to 2s per dozen. ■Swede?.—2s 6d to 3s per cwt. Turnips.—White, 2s 6d per sack. Lettuce.—Fair, 2s; choice, 4s to 5s per case. Plums.—Burbank, 2s to 2s f'ri ; others, Its Gd to 2s per half caso. Greengages.—ss to 5s (kl per half case. Nectarines.—3s Gd to 4s 6d per half case. i'liifisions.—Local, 7s to 8s Gd per half case. Raspberries.—Gs (3d to 7s per full bucket. Apples.—Cooking, 3s Gd to 4s per case ; dessert, 5.s to Gs per case. Apricots.—ss 6J to 6s caso. Strawberries.—Gd to &1 per punnet. Bananas.—Repacked, 20s. Pears.---Australian, 17s to 18s per uarse. Tomatoes.—o.s to 9s 6d half case. Peaches.—2s Gd to 3s Gd half case. Cheese.—Best factory mediums, 7d; loaf, 7-Jd per lb. Dressed pork.—7o's to DO's, sd; 90'e to 100's, 4;£d to sd; baconors, -lid ; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3J. Eg-s. Freeh, lOd to lid per dozen. Butter. -Separator, lOd; dairy, ( JJd to lOd per lb. Bacon.—Factory sides, \)d; rolls, 9:'1<1; Juuns, 9d per lb. Honey.— per lb. Slow of Kale. Beeswax.—ls 4d per lb. Fungus.—4d per lb. TdiHow.—Tins, 23s per cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels, 3s Gd to 4s for goo dbirds; table roosters, 3s Gd ; table hens, '2a 6d to 3s Gd; ducks, 4s to 5s Gd per pair; turkey gobbler, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize.—lb 3d per bus. Ten sack lots, 4s 2d. Wheat.—-Is 8d per bus. Ten sack lote, Is Gd. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£'G per ton . Barley meal.—£6 10s per ton. Ton lots, £6 ss. Maize meal.—£B 10s per ton. Ton lote, £8 5s per ton. Chaff.-Oaten sheaf, old, £5 to £5 15s: new. £1 10s to £4 15s per ton. Hay.—Prime, £4 10s per ton. Surrosine.—£7 per ton. All A. and P. Company's .stock foods at manufacturer's prices. Straw.— Wheaten. £3 15r; oaten, £3 15s per ton. Linseed oil cake.—Genuine, £13 per ton. Cocoaunt oil cake.—Bs 6d per cwt. Oats.—Feed, new, 3s; old, 3s 4d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed. 3s 6d per bushel. Seed, Cape barley.—4s -Id per bushel. Vaporite destroys wireworms and all other soil pests, 34s per 2-cwt. oak, or 20s per cwt. 12s 6d per 56 lbs. Teas.—Choicest blends, 61hs and 101b tins. Golden Tip, Is (3d per lb. Tea.—Ceylon, in 51b tins, Is 4d per lb. Same in 5 tin lote, 1b 3d por lb.