Pigs, Poultry and Produce

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 285, 2 December 1939, Page 5

Pigs, Poultry and Produce

The Dominion Auctioneering Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report receiving a full yarding of pigs at their usual weekly sale held on Thursday. Competition was very keen for all classes, heavy porkers jin particular commanding keen competition, resulting in an improvement on last week’s rates. Poultry was in very heavy supply and with the exception of turkeys prices were a little easier. Vegetables were in exceptionally heavy supply, a total clearance being made at the following rates:—

Pigs: Best weaners, 20s to 275; medium weaners, 15s 6d to 19s; small and backward, 10s to 12s; slips, 25s to 30s; heavy stores, 30s to 38s; light stores, 25s to 295; heavy porkers, £2 13s, £2 15s, £3 to £3 Is; medium porkers, 45s to 50s; light porkers, 39s to 445. Poultry: Best W.L. hens, 5s to 6s per pair; heavy hens, Cs to 7s per pair; light hens, 4s to 5s per pair; heavy cockerels, 7s to 8s 6d; medium cockerels, 4s to 5s per pair; small, Is to 2s per pair; young ducks, 8s to 9s fid per pair; old ducks, 3s to Cs per pair; turkey gobblers, 18s fid each; turkey hens, 7s fid to 9s fid each; geese, 4s fid to 6s each; pullets, 4s 9d to 5s 6d each.

I Produce: Apples, Delicious, 16s to 20s per case; Stunners, 12s fid to 15s per case; Nelson Tasmas, ISs 6d to 20s; hothouse tomatoes, Is 3d to Is 5d per lb.; cherries, local, lOd to Is 3d per lb.; jGreytown, Is 4d to Is 9d per lb.; cucum- ' bers, hothouse, 7s fid to 9s fid per dozen; Gooseberries, 3d to fid per lb.; strawberries, Is 7d to 2s Sd per lb.; red currants, fid per lb.; asparagus, 8s to 9s per {dozen; marrows, 15s to 18s fid per case; cauliflowers, 4s to 9s 9d per sack; cabbages, Is fid to 4s Cd per sack; lettuce, I la to 4s Cd per case; spimiacli, 5s to 8s fid per case; carrots, 8d to Is Id per uunch; parsnips, 8d to lOd per bunch; oeetroot, 9d to Is fid per bunch; white turnips, Is to Is 6d per bunch; rhubarb, 4s to 7s per dozen bunches; spring onions, Is to Is Cd per bunch; peas, ljd (o 3id jier lb.; broad beans, Id to 2d per I lb; new potatoes, local, 2d to 3d per lb.; rukekohe, 233 6d per cwt.