Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1914, Page 4

Commercial

Wellington, January lu

j Tlie vuiuo of potatoes continues : to be low.; crops in the North 1sI land are good, and local farmers are digging- to prevent the risk of blight. Good lines of ripened onions are wanted. Eggs are slightly lower, but in good sale Light porkers are in best enquiry. Poultry is in fair demand where quality is good. New chaff is selling freely, and a drop in values may oecurr any time. Oats are slightly weaker. Wheat has declined owing to shipments arriving from Australia. There has been a. sharp rise in the price of pollard. Pea and barley meal are offering at fair rates. Straw will doubtless come back in price. Good clover hay is in fair demand. Tomatoes are keeping up in values —the season being somewhat late. A decline may be looked for shortly. Stone fruits arc coming to hand in such quantities that choice lines are only especially sought after. Raspberries are in good demand. New apples arc arriving. Rhubarb is very dull of sale. Cabbages are higher to-day. Good cauliflower are scarce. All root vegetables are in good sale, especially lettuce. Peas and beaus are now in much better demand. Potatoes. -Hutt, £5 10s; others £3 10s per ton. Onions. -••Australian. £12 10s; local 10s per ton. Cabbage.:—Choice 4s 9d ; others 3 s per sack. Cauliflower.—Choice Ts: others 2s to 5s per sack. Green Peas.—Choice Is; others 9d per peck. Carrots.-- Choice 5s 6d ; others 4s per sack. Parsnips.- 5s fid per sack. Swedes. -3s per cwt. Marrows.- 2s fid to 3s 3d per sack. Turnips.- White 3s fid per sack. French Beans.- Choice 2d per lb Tomatoes. Hutt fid per lb; Nelson 5s fid to 8s per half case. Lettuce.- Choice 3s fid; others 2s per case. Apricots. Choice ss; others 3s fid per half case. Peaches.- Choice 4s: others Is fid to 3s per half case. Burbank Plums.---Choice 3s fid others Is fid to 2s fid per half case Blue Plums.—3s (kI per half case. Wixon Plums.—ls 3d to 2s per half case. Greengages 4s to 5s per half case. Nectarines. -Choice dessert 4s Gd to 5s fid; others 3s 6d per half case. Pears.—Dessert ss; others 3s. Apples. —LaVg-e cookers, fis: others 4s per case. Raspberries fis to Ts bucket. Ilhubarb.- 3s per dozen bundles. Poultry.—Hens us Gd; good table hens 4s; cockerels fis; good heavy young ducks fis fid; Indian 'Runners 4s fid to 5s per pair; turkey gobblers Is per lb. Dressed Pork. —70's to 90's s;jd; 90's to 100's sd; baconers 4]d to 4.^'d; choppers (heavy) 3M per lb. Honey.—3i'd to 4d per lb. Cheese.—Best factory mediums fi-Ul per lb. Eggs.--Fresh Is to Is Id per dozen. Fungus.—s|d per lb. Walnuts.- 7d per lb. & Wheat.— 5s per bushel. Ten sack lots 4s lid. Wheat.—Seconds 4s 3d per bushel. Maize.—4s lOd. (Juts.- -Feed 2s 8d to 2s lOd; Duns os 2d per bushel. Oats. -Crushed 3s per bushel. Feed Barley.—3s 9cl per bushel. Seed Oats.—Specially dressed Algerians 3s 9d per bushel; Gartons, Sparrowbills, Duus, Storm Kings 3s (id per bushel. Seed Cape Barley. —3s fid per bushel.; Russian Cape Seed Barley.—3s fid per bushel. Pollard. --£7 per toil. 5s less tor ton lots. Bran.- £4 15s per ton. 5s less for ton lots. Barley Meal.—£(i 10s per ton; 10s less for ton lots. ! Pure Pea Meal.—£7 per ton. I Sucrosine. —£'7 per ton in 200's. Linseed Oil Cake.-—Nuts and Meal, genuine, 13s (ill per cwt. Molasses in casks. -.£'4 I.os per lon, or 2(is per scwi cask; fis (id per cwt case. Meat and Bone Meal.--17s per 100; 9s per 50 and 5s per 25 lb bag. Chaff.- Oaten sheaf, old, £fi per lon ex store. New £5 5s ox wharf. Hay. Prime new wanted. Straw. £3 10s per ton ex store. Choice new season s B.L.E. rape. ; !5s per cwt. s Swiss Chard (silver bent;). -Variety recommended by tlni: Agricultural Department Is -kl por lb. j Western Wolths Ryegrass. <Sd per lb. Dressed Cocksfoot.-- -1(5/17; seed (iid per lb. Perennial llyegrass.—4s (id to 5s per bus. Cowgrass and Red Clover. 1 111 per 11). White Clover, Colonial.—-Is Id i pei' lb. I Alsyke. - Is 4d per lb. j