WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 74, 4 April 1910, Page 7

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

[Special to Expbbbs.] WELLINGTON, April 1. The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative- Distributing Company, Ltd., report as follows: — Apples still continue in heavy supply. Pears are coining forward in fair quantities, but realise good prices. Peaches are particularly wanted at high figures. Large Hutt grapes are in good demand at up to Is 3d per lb. Tomatoes are much less in quantity, with considerably better prices1. Vegetables continue to be in good demand, with the exception of , marrows and swedes. Large shipments of potatoes have come forward during the last few days, and the market is weak. Numerous blighted lines still coming to hand. Instead of the usual advance in poultry prices at Easter, the very large ?uantities coming forward weakened he market, and prices are still low. The position in regard to onions is unaltered from last week. Chaff is in short supply, and the market is exceedingly firm. We have this year largely extended our fruit trade, but still have the capacity for a greater increase, and we hope present suppliers who are satisfied with our efforts on their behalf will show appreciation by advocating neighbours to ship our way, to the benefit of themselves, the Company, and the general protection of the industry. Maize, 4s per bushel. Wheat: 4s to 4s 3d per bus. Barley, feed, 3s per bushel. Barley: Cape, 3s to 3s 6d per bus. Horse beans: 4s 6d to 4s 9d per bushel. Partridge peas: 5s per bushel. Prussian Blue peas, 5s 6d per bushel. • Barley meal: Special quality, £5 "10» per ton. Sharps: £5 15s per ton. Pollard: £5 10s per ton. Bran: £4 to £4 10s per ton. Chaff: Prime oaten sheaf, £5 per ton. Hay: Prime, £3 15s to £4 per ton. Sucrosine: £6 10s per ton. Straw: Wheaten, £2 10s per ton. Straw: Oaten, £2 7s 6d per ton. Linseed Oil Cake: Genuine, £13 per ton. ; Oats: Feed, 2s 4d to 2s 7d per bus. Oats, seed, Gartons, Duns, 2s 9d per bushel. Oats: Crushed, 2s 8d per bushel.,' Machine-dressed cocksfoot, 6£d to 7d per lb. Farmers' dressed cocksfoot, 6d per lb.

Per. ryegrass, 4s 6d to 5s per bushel; Italian ryegrass, 4s 3d to 4s 9d per bushel. Lime, crushed, agricultural, 20s per ton delivered free at any railway station in truck loads. Basic slag, high grade, 19 per cent, £4 10s per ton. Superphosphates, Mount Lyell (best on market), £5 per ton; 5s less for ton or more. - Potatoes: Best Hutt, special brand £7, medium £4 10s to £5 10s; others £3 per ton. Cabbage: Choice 3s 6d to 4s, ordinary Is 6d to 2a per sack. Green peas: 9d per peck. Carrots: Hutt, 8d doz. Turnips: White, 4d doz. Swedes: Is 6d to 2s per sack. Vegetable marrows: 6d to Is per sack Market glutted. * Pumpkins: 3s to 3s 9d sack. Lettuce: Choice 2s 6d, fair 6d to Is per case. Spinach: Best, 2s 6d per case. French beans: 3s to 3s 6d per lsack. ' Cucumbers: Outside grown, 6s per banana case. Broad beans: Id per lb. Spring onions: 8d to 9d doz. bdls. Tomatoes: Round 3s 6d to 4s, Hutt 2s 6d to 3s 3d, Nelson Is 6d to Is 9d per J-case. Rhubarb: Is 6d doz. bundles. Apples: Cookers, large 3s to 3s 6d, 2s 6d case.

Apples: Cox's Orange 7s 6d; dessert, well coloured, 5s 6d; others 4s per case. Pears: Dessert 7s; cookers, large ss, small 3s 6d per case. Peaches: Choice dessert 7s, medium 4s to 4s 6d J-case. Grapes: Best Hutt Is 3d, Nelson 8 per lb. Cape gooseberries: 4d per lb. Radish: 4d doz. bundles. Butter, best separator, printed wrappers 9d; separator, bulk B^d to 9d, dairy pats B|d to 9d. Cheese: Best factory mediums 5Jd to sid per lb, loaf 6£d per lb. Dressed pork, 70's to 90's 3*d, 90>s to 100's 3d, baconers 3d, choppers (heavy) 2d. Our weekly pork sales ] held each Thursday during winter.

Eggs: Is 6d per doz. Bacon: Factory sides 6£d, rolls 7id, hams, 7d per lb. Honey: 60's 4d per lb. Beeswax: Is 4d to Is 6d per lb. Fungus: Keen demand at s£d per lb.

Walnuts, s*dTallow : Tins, 22s cwt. Onions: Globes £3 10s to £4 per ton. ■, ' Poultry: Cockerels, 5s 6d for good birds, small 3s to 3s 6d; table roosters, 4s; table hens 3s 6d, small 2s-6d; ducks, large ss, small 3s 6d per pair; turkey gobblers, lOd per lb, hens 9d per lb live weight.

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