Commercial,

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 August 1912, Page 1

Commercial,

• W ZEALAND FARMERS' COOPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., LTD. WEEKLY REPORT. Special to The Horowhenua Chronicle. WELLINGTONS, July 2G. Po la tees are in god odemand and prices are being maintained, but supply has much increased during the week. We repeat our former advice that wo do not think clients should hold back supplies. Onions, where quality is good, sell well at satisioetory prices. Eggs are scarce, and in excellent demand, but are bound to decline shortly. Fork is in short supply, and meets ready sale. A niucli larger supply could be readily disposed of at ruling high rates. Poultry is in good demand where quality is right. The excessive and continuous wet weather is having a depressing effect on business generally,,and with the coming of an improvement in this direction butter trado in grain, etc., may be lokod lor. Apples are in good demand, and Australian fruits this week found a particularly ready sale. We could (fake much larger consignments. Cauliflower are lower in price, and cabbage is agai nbaok to nominal val-

ues. Oother vegetables in good demand, excepting carrots and swedes which are dull of sale. 'lettuce is realising very high prices. Potatoes.—Prime, £G 10s to £7. Potatoes, seed.—Up-to-datoa, £6 10,s; Beauty of Hebron and Early Rose, £9; Northern Sta,r £6 10s; Early Puritan, £7; Princess Victoria, £9 10s per ton. Onions.—£lo per ton. Cabbage: -s to Is Gd per sack. Carrots: 3s to 4s (id per sack. Carrots, horse: 35s per ton. Cauliflower: Choice, Cs to 8s por sack. Marrows.—Gs per sack. Parsnips: 3s (3d to -is per sack. Pumpkins.—Gs per sack. Swedes.—ls 6d to Is 9d per owt. Turnips: white, Is 6d per sack. Lettuce: 3s to 4s per ease. Apples: Cooking, Epp's Seedling, 4s to 4s Gd; others os to os 6d per cases. Apples: Dessert, 6s to 9s per Cheese: best factory mediums, 7<l; loaf, 7ill per lb. Manderines: lis to 12s Gd. Oranges: 8s to 10s. Pa.ssions 4s Gd to 6s Gd. QueiMi Pities: 8s to 10s. Lemons: Gs k> 7s Gd. Butter. -Separator, llid; milled Id ; dairy lid per lb. Eggis: I'Yosli, Is 9d per dozen. Preserved eggs.—ls 3d to Is 4d po.r dozen. Dressed Pork : 70's to 90's 6i ; 90 ! s to l(fo's GJd ; baconers, 6d ; choppers (heavy), 3d 3? t d ; slips, 7il; suokers I\(\ por lb. Honoy.—4Jd per lb. 15 cos wax: Is 4d to Is 5d por lb. Fungus: 3id to 4d per lb. Tallow: tins, 23s cwt. Poultry: cockerels, 4s Gd to Gs for good birds; tahlo roosters, 4s Gd; t able liens, 3s Gd to ss; ducks, 5s 6d to 6fi Gd por pair; turkoy gobblers, 9d lo lOd per lb; hens, 8d to 9d per lb livo weight. Maize: os 9d per bushel. Wheat.—4s Gd per bus. Ten sack lots, 4s 4d. Feed Barley: 3s 8d por bushel. Pears, Partridge.—4s por bushel 3s 10(1 for 10 sack lota. Pollard: £7 10s per ton. Bran : £B 15s to £6 per ton. Barley Meal: £7 per ten. Pea and Wheat Meal: £7 5s per

ton. Chaff.--Oaten sheaf, £4 10a to £6 per ton. Chaff; Oa ten Straw, £3 10s per ton. Hay: prime clover, £4 to £4 10s per ton. Hay Rye: for Btock feeding, £3 15s per ton, in truck lots. Sucrosine: £7 10s per ton. All A. and P. Co.'s Btock foods at manufacturers' prices. Straw.—£3 5s per ton, ox store. Linseed oil cako: genuine, £13 10a por ton. Oats: feed, 2s 8d to 2s lOd; Dnns, 2s lid; crushed, 8s per bushel. Seed, Capo Barley: 4b per hushol. Soed Onts: Algerians, 8s 8d per bushel; Cartons, Excelsiors, Sparrowbills, Black Rivals, Duns, 3s 6d per bushel.