Commercial.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 January 1914, Page 4

Commercial.

* NEW ZEALAND FARMERS' CO-OPERATIVE DISTRIBUTING CO., LTD. WEEKLY REPORT, Wellington, .January 22. We have no change to report in the potato market, and at the present moment it is difficult to forecast future values. The extent of the ravages of the blight in some districts Is not yet fully known. Onions are scarce, and good lots arriving will find ready sale at high figures. Eggs are steady, and in good demand. We have during the week made fairsized sales of new medium cheese at (j]d per lb ex factory. New chaff is now selling freely, and enquiries for old is slackening. Oats are quiet. Wheat has declined slightly, but no marked reduction is looked for. Pollard from Australia, which is much superior to local, is now reaching us. Pea and barley meals are offering at fair rates. Porkers, especially light weights, are in good demand. Poultry is in fair sale. The Autumn grass seed trade is now commencing, and we expect a brisk demand. Fruit- Apricots, nectarines and peaches are higher, and the demand much better for good lines. Apples and pears are now more plentiful, and lower prices obtaining. Raspberries are daily enquired for. Plums are in fair demand for choice quality. Vegetables.--Cabbage is coming to hand more freely, with lower rates. Good lines of peas and .beans are wanted. Swedes are selling" well. Tomatoes aro higher in value, and larger shipments are recommended. JLeituce and other vegetables all selling at fair summer rates. VEGETABLES. Potatoes Choice Hutt, t'O 10s: others, £3 10s to £4 per ton. Onions.- Australian, £12 10s: local, ,£lO per ton. Cabbage. Choice, 2s Oil to 3s: others, Is 0d per sack. Cauliflower. Choice, 7s; others 3s to 5s per sack. Green Peas. -Choice, Is: others, 9d per peck. Carrots.—Choice, 0s: others, ; >s per sack. Cucumbers.- 2s to os per halfcase. Parsnips.- (is (id per sack. Swedes.—3s per cwi. Marrows. 2s fid to 3s 3d per sack. Turnips. --White, 3s (id per sack , French Beans.---Choice, 2d lb. Tomatoes.—Hutt, (id per lb: Nelson, 7s to 9s (id half-case. Lettuce. Choice, 3s (id : others 2s per case. FRUIT. Apricots. Choice, ;">s (id: others 4s per half-case. Peaches.—Choice, os (id : others 3s (id to 4s per half-case. Burbank Plums. Choice, 3s: others Is (id to 2s (id per half-case. Blue lTums.--3s (><l per J.-ease. Wixon Plums. Is <<u to 2s per half-case. Greengages.- -Choice, 4s to os per half-case. Nectarines. Choice dessert, 4s (id to us (id : others, 3s hil per hallcase. Pears.- Dessert, choice-Is: oththers, 3s. Apples.- Large cookers, ss: others, 3s 0d per case. Raspberries.—-0s io Iα per bucket. Rhubarb. -3s per Qozun bundles. POULTRY. Poultry.—Hens, 3s 0d ; good table hens, 4s; Heavy cockerels, 0s; good heavy young ducks, 0s (id : Indian Runners, 4s 0d to 5s per pair; Turkey gobblers, Is per lbs: hens, lid per lb live weight. GENERAju. Dressed Pork. 7(Ts to UO's, r>.jd to (J()\s to lOO's ,hd; baconers 4:} d to 4^-d; choppers (heavy), 3-id per lb. Honey.— Dhd to 4d per lb. Cheese. Best factory mediums Ojd per lb, ex factory. Eggs.- Fresh, Is per dozen. Fungus. - s:}d per lb. Wanted. Walnuts. -7d per lb. GRAI.'S', PRODUCE, ETC. Wheat..- -4s lid per bus Ten sack lots,. 4?s 10d. Wheat.:. -Seconds, 4s 3d per bus Maize.—4s 10d per bus. Oats.- Food, 2s ,Sd; Best Duns, 3s 2d p.t>r bushel. Oats. Crushed, 3s per busliel. Fei;d Barley. 3s 3d per bushel. Se'c''d Oats. Specially dressed Algerians, 3s l Jd per bushel : (Jartons, Sparrowbills, Duns, Storm Kings, 3s (id per bushel Seed, Cape Barley.- 3s (.id bus. Russian (.'ape Seed Barley. 3s (id pei" bushel. Pollard.- £7 per ton. Bran.- -£4 1.5s per ton. less for ton lots. .Barley Meal. £0 10s per ion : 5s less for ton lots. Pure Pen Meal.— £7 per ton: 5s less for ton lots. Sucrosine. •£7 per ton in 200 s Linseed Oil Cake.—-Nuts and meal, 13s 0d |>er cwt. Molasses in Casks. L'l 10s per ton, or 2fis per 5-cwt. <ask : <>s (id per cwt. case. Meat and Bojne Meal. 17s pi'r 100: f) s per 50, and (is per 25]b bag. ('haft. -Oaten Sheaf. «»ld, £■> 15s per ton, ex store. New,. £•»

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us, ox wharf. .Special quotations lor largo lots. Straw. l• 1 it).-. [K'i- ton, ex store. Choiee .New Season s liape. • )•'ls per cut. Swiss ( 11;11 (i (Silver Beet), ild per 11). Western Wolill's I'yegrass. — New SeaM.ui's seed just landed Ironi Holland, Sd per lb. Dressed Coeksfool. • l.(i-ITlb seed, (i/,d per 11). JVremal Ryegrass. 4s (id (o us bushel. Italian Uyegrass. 4s lid to us bushel. ('owjrras?. and Ked Clover.- lid per lb. White Clover, Colonial. Is -Id per lb. Alsyke. 1 s -Id per lb.