LATE DAIRYING NEWS COLUMN.

New Zealand Mail, 8 February 1900, Page 29

LATE DAIRYING NEWS COLUMN.

NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCIATION. SHIPPING NOTICES. The next fortnightly steamer after the Aotea is the Papanui, due to sail on the 24th. She will load cheese on the 20th, and shippers are requested to hare their cheese in Wellington by that date. . Now that the output from the factories is beginning to decrease—and the difficulty of estimating donsequently greater—secretaries are requested to send in early notification of space required for the fortnightly boats. MARKETS. The Department of Agriculture has received the following cable message from the Agent-General.: “Butter, 98s, market firm; cheese, 58s, market dull.” Several bacon companies have been advised that owing to the unsettled nature of things in. South Africa, it is not advisable to send goods there at present: Laery and Co., Limited, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce, market:—Wheat, 2s 6d; oats, 2s 2d, 2s sd; barley, feed, 2s 2d; maize, 3s Id; flour, £7 ; pollard, £4; bran, £3 ss; oatmeal, £lO 10s; ; chaff, 655; bay, 90s; field beans, 3s 2d; field peas, 3s 6d; potatoes, £2 ss; onions, £6 10s; ryegrass seed, 2s 9d, ,4s busn; cocksfoot seed, 2£d to 4d ; a butt.eiLj ..dairy 9dy • separator 9d;. cheese* .od jVbacon, ofdhams, 6fd; fowlfi, 3s ; (Tucks, 3s 6d;. turkeys, Bs, 12s; geese, 4s 6d; hen .eggs, Is 2d, Is 3d dozen.