Pigs, Poultry and Produce

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 124, 29 May 1944, Page 3

Pigs, Poultry and Produce

Tho Dominion Auctioneering Compauw report that pigs were in very short supply at their weekly sale, only one pen being entered, these being light porkers which realised 38s. A medium entry of poultry was disposed of at satisfactory rates. Vegetables were in heavy supply at reduced rates. Quotations: — Pigs: Light porkers 38s. Poultry: Best hens 5s lOd to 8s each, medium 4s 4d to 5s 4d, light 2s to 3s 7d, heavy cockerels 6s to 6s lOd, medium 4s 6d to 5s Id, small 2s to 3s 6d, best ducks and drakes 5s to 8s each, others 4s to 4s lOd, roosters 3s to 4s 3d, forward pullets 11s to 13s 3d, backward 5s to 9s. Produce: hothouse grapes 5s 6d to 6s 3d lb., hothouse tomatoes Is Gd to Is 9d lb., Otaki tomatoes 10s to 17s 6d case, passion fruit 18s to 21s case, tree tomatoes 20s to 23s case, grapefruit 25s to 27s 6d case, cauliflowers 13s 6d to 18s sack, cabbages Is to 7s 0d sack, lettuce, best 12s to 13s case, others 2s to ss, carrots 3s to 4s Gd sugar bag, parsnips 5s to 6s sack, swedes 3s to 7s Gd sack, rhubarb ISs to 20s dozen bunches, beetroot Is to 2s Gd sack, silver beet Is to 2s case, spinach 3s to 9s Gd case, pumpkins 4s to 7s Gd sack, marrows 2a to 2s Gd sack, beaus Is 4d to Is Sd lb. FEILDING AUCTION MART Percy P. Stevens reports Friday’s Feilding auction mart realisations to be as follow: —Poultry: Hens 3s 3d to 4s Gd, cockerels 3s 9d to 7s, pullets I2s 4d lo 16s, roosters 3s 3d to 3s 9d, ducks 4s Gd to 4s Bd. Pigs: Weaners £1 to £1 ss, stores £1 16s.

A girl who advertised in an Auckland paper for a husband the other day mentioned some of her attractions; amongst them that she was a “good cook,” “considered good-looking” and didn’t smoke. If this lady marries a non-smoker it is to be hoped that thcv’ll live happily ever after, as the story-books say. But if she marries a smoker there may be “family jars” sooner or later, to follow. .Stevenson said no woman ought to marry a man who didn’t smoke, and there’s no doubt at all that smokers as a rule are far easier to get on with than non-smokers. “Tho pipe of peace,” say the Indians, and smoking certainly makes for har mony in the home in most cases. The most soothing, delightful, comforting, solacing and cheering of all tobaccos by the way, are the six toasted blends, | Cut Plug No. 10 (Bullshead), Navy Cut No. 3 (Bulldog), Cavendish, Riverhead Gold, Desert Gold and Pocket Edition, and being toasted, they’re comparatively harmless. For many years before "the public now, they have won .their way to popularity by sheer merit.