Timaru Grain Market

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXi, Issue 6066, 12 September 1903, Page 2

Timaru Grain Market

(Prom Our Own Correspondent).

Timaru, Sept. 11. ' The firmness which we noted last week continues, but so far as we can 1< am there have been no sales during this week. Southern buyers have been in the market but have met refusals to do business under 4s > In one case a grower refused to let an all round prime line of Tuscan,: velvefefin red chaff, go at the *yen money, In the present firm state of'the n*ark.eJb there does, not appear to be any chance of holders giving way. The price 3on offer are: —Had chaff 3a lOd to 3s lid, tuscan 3s lid to 4s, velvet 48 to 4s Id, and at these prices business can be donr*. Fowl wheat is firmer and scarce; up to 3s 8d is ?sked for best whole, In oats business is in small compass, though: sMppuj^ js very bri.k. If farmers woijld accept is.3d fco Js 4d far Danish, and is 4d to Is 6d for present samples pf short oats, sales can be effected- j Tliere is no demand at all for barley and feed is down to §s 4ci (nominal). The market for potatoes j-emains stsady at £2 12« 6d to £2 15s, picked lots, quite fgea of email or horny specimens. Some inferior lots are on the market, and it is no wonder South Canterbury potatoes get a bad nau;o, for several growers show great carelessness in pioking potatooe up and shoving them into the bags anyhow. If a good eyea sample were bagged, the proamjt here would get as good a name and rank equal tp the best in the colony.