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Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 February 1912, Page 1

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NEW ZEALAND'FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO. WEEKLY REPORT. (Special to tho "Horowlicnua Chronicle.") WELLINGTON, Feb. 2. Potatoes .advanced about 15s per ton during tho week, and remained ko for a few days, hut havo now eomo back again to tho closing prices of last week. Wo do not advise our clients to hold. A few Auckland onions are coming in, but tho quality is inferior. Good lines would fmd ready sale, hut values must decline considerably during tho 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 arrivo 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, afld ar ® m short supply. VEGETABLES. - French beans and Rood cauliflower always command satisfactory sale. Swedes, good lettuce and cabbage fair demand. Marows weaker, and m

large supply. , Eggs are unchanged. . Porkers slightly weaker. Butter is in eplendic? demand. Our reports are to tlio effect that honey will he in short supply this Reason, and high pnees may ho looked for. We have a good sale for farmers' lots of fat and tallow. Poultry is still plentiful. CLEARING SALE.—On Wedneedav last we held a clearing sale at the Willow Dale Poultry Farm, Lower Hutt, and excellent prices were obtained for all lines, the whole of which were cleared. For the purei bred lots the following figures were realisedßlack Orpington pullets, 8s to lis 6d; hens, 5s to 6s; WTiite Leghorn pullete, 7s; hens, 4s to 5s per pair. Potatoes. —Hutt, £4 to £* others, £4 p«r ton. Onions. —Glolws, £12 por ton. Cabbage.—Fair, 2s to 2s 6d; choice, 3s to 4s per sack. Carrotfi. —3s 6d per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice, 7s to 10a por sack. Broad beans.--ls 6d bag. Ficnch beans. —2id to 2|d per lb. Green poas.—Hutt, 3s 6d to 4s per cental bag. Marrows. —2ts to 3s per case. Rhubaru.—ls to 2s per dozen. Swedes. —2s (kl to 3s per cwt. Turnips.—White, 2s 6d per sack. Lettuce.—Fair, 2s; choice, 4s to 5s per case, Plums. —Burbank, 2s to 2s Gd) others, Its Gd to 2s per half caso. Greengages.—ss to 5s 6d per half case. Nectarines. —3s 6d to 4s 6d per half caso. hitssions. -Local, 7s to 8s 6d per half case. Raspberries.—6s 6d to 7s per full ; bucket. . Apples.—Cooking, 3s 6d to 4s per case; dessert, 5s to Gs per case. Apricots.—ss 6d to 6s case. Strawberries.—6d to 8d per punnet. Bananas. —Repacked, 20s. Pears.—Australian, 17s to 18s per

caee. Tomatoes. —5s to 9s 6d half case. Peaches.—2s 6d to 3s 6d half case. Cheese.—Best factory mediums, 7d; loaf, 7}d per lb. Dressed pork.—7o's to 90's, sd; 90'b to 100's, did to sd; baconers, -Aid; choppers (heavy) 3d to 3i. "Eggs.— Freeh, lOd to lid per dozen. Butter.-Separator, lOd; dairy, 'Jill to lOd per lb. 15acon.—Factory sides, 9d; rolls, 9id ; hams, c Jd per lb. Honey.—3id per lb. Slow of sale. Beeswax. —Is 4d per lb. Fungus.—4d per lb. billow.—Tins, 23s per cwt. Poultry.—Cockerels, 3s 6d to 4s for goo dbirds; table roosters, 3s 6d ; table hens, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; ducks, 4s to 5s 6d per pair; turkey gobbler, 9d per lb; hens, 8d per lb live weight. Maize.—ls 3d per bus. Ten sack lots, -is 2d. "Wheat. —4s 8d per bus. Ten sack lot*-;, 4s 6d. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£6 per ton . Barley meal.—£6 10s per ton. Ton lots, £6 ss. Maize meal.—£B 10s per ton. Ton lots, £8 5s per ton. Chaff.—Oaten sheaf, old, £5 to £5 15s; new, £4 10s to £4 15s per ton. Hay.—Prime, £4 10s per ton. Sucroeine. —£7 per ton. All A. and P. Company's stock foods at manufacturer's prices. Straw.—Wheaten, £3 16s; oaten, £3 15s per ton. Linseed oil cake.—Genuine, £13 per ton. Cocoaunb oil cake.—Bs 6d per cwt. 1 Oats.—Feed, new, 3s; old, 3« 4d per bushel. Oats.—Crushed, 3s 6d per bushel. Seed, Capo barley.—4s 4d per bushel. Vaporito destroys wireworms and all other soil pests, 34s per 2-cwt. * cak, or 20s per cwt. 12s 6d per 56 lbs. Teas.—Choicest blends, 6lbs and 101b tins, Golden Tip, Is 6d per lb. Tea.—Ceylon, in 51b tins, Is 4d per lb. Same in 5 tin lots, Is 3d per lb.