Produce Market Report.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 25 August 1922, Page 3

Produce Market Report.

Fraser and Co., auctioneers, produce merchants, commission agents, and pgoDts for the Otago Egg Circle 146 Crawford street, Dunedin, rsport:— Eggs. Market easier. We quote Egg Circle eggs, la 3d; plain, la 2d. Butter. —Market easier; pats, Is 4d to Is sd; bulk, Is sd.

Pig».—Very fow pigs coming forward, but prices are still easy. We quote: Bacon pigs to 6|d per lb; porkers, 6|d; overweights, 3d to 4d per lb. Tallcw. — Market stationary, from 16s to 21s per cwt according to quality. Honey.—Demand ia poor. Prices ate nominal—prime bulk from 6£d to 7d; 101b tins, 7s. Beeswax.—ls 6d per lb. Potatoes. —Market firmer. We quote, prime tables £6 10s. Melbourne onions £2O per ton.

We have the Otago Agency for th« Cbalbpion egg crate, price 17s 6d eacb. Orion Colony brourier £l2 10s.

Cronius fireless hot brooder, £2 19s 6d We stock "Star P." Poultry Masb, "Star P" Chick Food, and lucerne meal, fowl wheat, Jubilee incubators, Palmer's poultry food —prices on application. Poultry.— Number offering on Wednesday showed a decline on previous week, and prices are slightly firmer. We quot6<

HeDs 53 to 6s per pair, cockerels to 9s 6d per pair, roosters to 6s Od per pair, ducks 7s to 8s Od per pair, geese to 7s per pair, pullets 17s 6d per pair. Turkeys:—Hens to B£d per lb, gobblers 9|d per lb (live weight).