WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 101, 30 April 1908, Page 7

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

PRICES CURRENT.

(Special for "Marlborough Express.")

WELLINGTON, April 29,

The N.Z. Farmers' Co-operative Distributing Co. Ltd., report as follows: Maize, 5s 9d per bushel. Wheat, fowl 5s 4d per bushel. Barley, (feed) 3s lOd to 4s 4d per bushel. Barley, Cape seed, 4s 9d per bushel. Oats, 3s to 33 3d per bushel. Oats, crushed, 3s 6d per bushel. Oats-—Seed Duns, Sparrowbills, Gartons 3s 6d, African, Algerians 3s 10d. Cocksfoot, Akaroa, 9d per lb. Ryegrass, perennial, 5s 6d per bushel. Horse beans, crushed, 5a 2d per bvshel. Hay, English-grown, £7 10» per ♦on. . Straw, £3 per ton. Bran, £6 10s per ton. Sucrosine 2OO's-165,. 100's 8s 6d p«r bug. —■" Prime oaten-sheaf chaff, £5 15s per ton. Potatoes, whites £6 10s to £7 per ton. .^Firmer. Onions, £7 to £7 10s per ton. Butter separator lid to Is, milled lid, dairy pats lid per lb. Eggs, fresh, 2s Id to 2s 2d per doz. Good demand. Honey, 60's 4*d per lb. Beeswax, Is 6d per lb. Fungus, 4fd per lb. Walnuts, 5d to 6d per lb. Porkers, 70's to 90> 4|d to sd, 90's to IOOs 4£, heavy pigs 3d to^d per lb. Cabbage, 8s 9d per sack. Very scarce. Rhubarb, 3s per dozen. ■ Carrots, table reds," 4s 6d per sack. Swedes, 3s per cwt. Tomatoes, 4s per J-case. Apples, dessert 7s 6d to 9s per case. Apples, cookers 6s 6d per case. Pears dessert 7b 6d per case. Pears,' cookers, 6s 6d per case. Quinces, 4s per case. / Poultry—Table roosters 3s to 3s 6d, cockerels 4s to ssj table hens 3s; ducks, 5s to 6s; geese, 6s. All at per pair. Turkey gobblers lOd, hens 9d. ?Live weight.