THE RIALTO

Southland Times, Issue 24332, 13 January 1941, Page 2

THE RIALTO

William Todd and Co., Ltd.. The Rialto, report as follows for week ending Saturday, January 11:—■ Pigs.—Weaners, 14/- to £l/1/-; well grown, £1 T 6 to £l/14'6; small stores, 118 6to £1 5/C; stores, £l/18/- to £2 4 -; sows in pig, £2/3/- to £2/17/-; sows and litters, £2/19/-, £3/3/-, £2 16'-, £4.1/-. Poultry.—There was a large entry of hens. Prices: I/- to 1/7; heavy breeds, 2/- Io 2/7; geese, 3/- to 3/8; ducks. 1/5 to 1/8; Muscovies, 3/- to 5/6; pullets, 12-'- to 4/6; well grown, 5/- to 7/-; | lambs. 7/-. | Bacon Pigs.—Prime bacon weights, I 120 to 1501 b, 7d per lb delivered at abattoirs. Produce.—Potatoes, 10/- to 14.'- cwt; onions, 18/6; chaff, £4/15/- to £5/5/-; clover hay, £4/10/-; wheat, 24/-; barley, 21/-; oats, 17/6; crushed oats, 14/6; bran, 7/6; pollard, 9/6; Farra food. 16/6; meat meal, .11/-; boneflour, 14/6; molasses, 20/—; rock salt, 10/6; coarse .salt, 9/6; Moose meal, 21/-; Moose nuts, 20/-; lucerne meal, 14/6; maize meal, 22/6; poultry pellets, 12/6; oyster shell grit, 6/- cwt Miscellaneous.—Fowl netting, 19/-; sheep netting, 21/6; rabbit netting, 34/6; 6ft netting, 38/-; tanks, £2/14/-; pumice boilers, £B/5/-; pumic washtubs, £2/15/-; sashes, 15/-; wheelbarrows, 35/-; cement, 7/-; meat safes, 35/-; timber, 19/-; droppers, 19/-; stakes, £2/10/-; posts, £B/10/- 100; totara strainers, 15/-; horse covers, 40/-; cow covers, 12/6; draught collars, 50/-; bridles, 15/-; Ceylon tea, s’s 17/6, 401 b chests 3/3 lb. Vegetables.—Cabbage, 1/- to 1/6; cauliflower, 4/-; lettuce, 1/- dozen; carrots, turnips, beet, 2/- to 4/- dozen bunches; green peas, 2d lb. Grass Seed. —White clover, 1/3 to 2/9; cowgrass, 1/5; timothy, 1/-; dogstail, 1/3; lotus major, 2/-; alsyke, 2/6; Montgomery clover, 3/9; cocksfoot, 1/3 lb; perennial ryegrass, 4/6 to 7/-; mixtures clover, ryegrass and cocksfoot, 3jd lb; farmers’ lines ryegrass, 10/- to 15/- sack; crested dogstail, 15/- sack.