COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 January 1917, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

THE NEW SiEAI.A~STD FARMERS' CO-OP 1:1 KAT [YE DL-TU'BUT-INO UM'TVI; j ~ WEEKLY REPORT. Wellington, Jan. 19. Supplies of potatoes are increasing, and consequently prices have weakened. How ever j there is still an excellent demand. Wheat is firm at recent rates and fai'r business passing. Maize is slow. 'Fair business is being done in oats and recent prices being maintained. Pollard and brau siliow no change. There is a fair demand for dressed pork which is now in better supply, prices being slightly lower. Eggis arre scarce and remain firm at recent rates. . Poultry is in good demand, realising fair prices. Linseed oil oake meal for stock feeding is being used in increasing quantities with excellent results

Vegetables.—Green pea 6 are in better demand, and prices liave improved. French beans are eagerly bought up. Cabbages are lower in price owing to largely increased supplies. Only a few good lines of cauliflower are offering and these meet with keen competition. There is an excellent demand for Jiret-class lettuce. There is a fair demand for carrots, turnips and parsnips. Rhubarb is slow of sale. Spring onions, mint and parsley are selling readily, and there is a fair demand for swedes.

Fruit.—'Fruit arriving daily . from Motueka and Hawke's Bay is of good quality and meets ready sale. Apricots, peaches and Burbank plums show an improvement, and prices are good. Only small quantities of green, gages are offering and prices are satisfactory. Choice tomatoes are in excellent demand with good prices. There is a keen enquiry for grapes.

Wheat.—Good whole Fowl, 6s lOd to 7s. Pollard.—£7 10s per ton. Oats.— Feed 4s per bushel: specMaize.—ss 9d per bushel Spec ial quotations for large lots. Partridge peas.—Seed 7s 6d per bushel. Prime Potatoes.—'Hutt, 12s per cwt; others 8s to 9s per cwt. • ' 1 Turnips.—White, 2s 6d per sack. Cabbage.—Choice, 4s to os; medium 3s. Maize 6s '10d per bushel Onions.—£ls per ton. Beetroot.—6s per sack. Pumpkins. 14s per sack French Beans.—2Jd per lb Broad beans.— 5s to 7s part sack. Carrots.—Best, 7s. Leeks.—ls 3d per bundle. Lettuce.—3s 6d to 5s per case. Pumpkins.—l4s per sack. Spring Onions.—Bd-per bunch. Asparagas.—6d to lOd bundle. Nelson Green Peas.—ls 2d per peck. Hutt Green Peas.—ls 6d per peck. Hutt Hothouse Tomatoes.—lOd lb. Nelson Tomatoes.—los to 12s per } case. Parsnips.—los per sack. Asparagus.— 6d to 9d bundle. Oats.—Crushed 4s 6d per bushel. Seed Oats, Australian.—Algerian, dressed and clipped, ss, others 4s 3d; Gartons and Sparrowbilis, 4s; Dune, 4s 6d per bushel. Partridge Peaa Seed.—Bs 6d pei bushel. Russian Barley Cape Seed. —5s per bushel. Barley Feed.—4s 6d per bushel. Barley Meal.—£7 10s per ton. Bran.—£4 15 per ton. Linseed Oil Cake.—Slabs, Meal and Nuts, £11 10s per ton. TOO's, 12s; 50's, 6s 6d. This is the beat and cheapest Stock Food procurable. Chaff.—Oaten Sheaf, £5 15s to £6 per ton. Mollasses.—ln cask*. Splendid stock food, 28s per scwt. Casks extra. Straw.—£3 10s per ton. Quicklime. —In 28lb air-tight tins, 3s per tin. Meat and Bone Meal, 17s per hundred ; 9s per 50 ( and 5s per 251b bag. Eggs.—Fresh, Is 6d per dozen. Poultry.—Light table hens, 4s; heavy heavy liens, 6s; cockerels from 3s; good heavy ducks 8s; Indian Runner.? 6s per pair. Superphosphates, £6 10s per ton. ©andles, 25's 16s 6d per box. Tea, 6- and ID-pound tins, Is 8d: chests, Is 6d to Is lOd lb. Cauliflower.— 8s to 10b; mediuin 6s sack. Onions.—£l4 per ton. Rhubarb.—3s to 5s per doz bundles Turnips.—White, 2s per sack. French Beans.—2id per lb. Broad Beans 3d per lb. Spring Onions.—lOd bunch. Marrows.—so 6d to 7s 6d sack. Nectarines.—ss 6d per J case. Cherry Plums.—ls 6d to 2s Gd per i case. Apricots.—7s to 8s per -J case. Burbank Plums.—4s to 5s per \ case. ■Eggs.—Fresh, Is 7d per dozen. Asparagas.—ls to Is 6d bundle. Swedies—3s to 4a cwt. Apples.—Dessejrt, Choice Sturmers. 15s case. Peaches.—3s to 6s. Black Currants.—7s per i case. Grapes.—ls 6d per lb'.