DAIRY PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 148, 24 May 1934, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE.

BUTTER MARKET FIRM. The New Zealand Producers’ Co-opera-tive Marketing Association’s weeklycabled market report from its London office dated May 22 is as follows:—Butter : Market firm. New Zealand, finest, 78s; first grade, 775; Danish, 88s Cheese: Market steady. New Zealand, white, 455; coloured, 44s to 44s fid. DAIRY. COMMISSION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 23. The Dairy Industry Commission was occupied to-day with hearing further evidence. The witnesses were Mr W. M. Luke, New Zealand manager of Canadian National Steamships; Mr J. G. Hill, of Hill Bros., Ltd., and Messrs H. E. Pacey and J. Lloyd, representing Joseph Nathan, and Co., Ltd. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. WELLINGTON "MARKET PRICES. WELLINGTON, May 24. Prices of grain and other produce in Wellington are quoted as follow: —Barley: Australian, 3s 2d a bushel; hulled, 4s. Bran, £5 10s ton; chaff, oaten sheaf, £6 ton. Mixed fowl feed: 4s a bushel, 10sack lots, 3s 9d a bushel; linseed meal, 13s 3d 100 lb; linseed nuts, 12s 1001 b; lucerne meal, 8s 9d 1001 b; lucerne chaff, £6 15s a. ton. Maize: Crushed, 5s bushel; whole 4s fid bushel. Oats: Algerian, 2s lOd and 3s 3d; Duns, 3s a bushel; Gartons, 2s lOd and 3s; hulled, 3s 7d a bushel; ground, £6 15s a ton. Peas: Prussian Blue, 9s fid a bushel; partridge peas, 4s 9d. N.Z. wheat pollard: £6 7s 6d a ton;_ Australian pollard, £6 7s 6d. Wheat: 3s 10s to 4s 6d a bushel; wheatmeal, £7 5s a ton. Eggs: First-grade, 2s 3d dozen. Butter, farmers’ separator, 6d per lb. Pork : 4d to 5d per lb. FARMING NEWS. RURAL RAKINGS. The produce circular of the Bank of Now Zealand, dated London, March 23, states that there is only a very quiet market. for honey in Great Britain. Large quantities of home produced and the low price of Russian' honey has resulted in a lack of interest on the part of potential buyers. To supply an order for the New Zealand herd of Messrs Herrick Bros, there has been selected by Mr Alexander Bissett Bywell Home Farm, the three-year-old Aberdeen-Angus. bull Jerdin Eric. At the same time there will be shipped for Mr John Ogilvy (Masterton) the yearling Aberdeen-Angus bull, Bachelor of Derculich, which won second prize at the recent Perth Show and sale, says an exchange. The balance-sheet of the New Zealand Friesian Association for the year ended March 31, 1934, shows an expenditure for the 12 months of £2448 9s compared with an income of £2367 6s Bd. The accumulated fund, therefore, which stood at £1985 4s 8d at the close of last year now stands at £1904 2s 4d. Sundry creditors and the bad debts reserve bring the total liabilities as at March 31 to £2999 10s Bd. The annual meeting of the association will be held in Hamilton on May 31. A statement appeared in the “Manawatu Standard” recently about the size of cucumbers grown in Australia and also in the Kairanga district. Taranaki can beat them easily, says the Herald. Kairanga produced a cucumber 17in long and 9in in circumference. Mr Les. Hale, of Mangorei, tells us he had many larger, one of which was 24iin long, llin in circumference, and weighed course without any fuss being made about it. It was of the long green type.