CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE

Otago Witness, Issue 2026, 22 December 1892, Page 29

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE

The following is tho Corn Exohange report (per Fred. Denham, secretary) for the week ending December 17 :— Taking all the reports we have from the farming districts together, the season UP to the present gives an indication of a bountiful harvest, and if the farmers get anything like fine weather for getting it in, they may (in spite of low prices) congratulate themselves that they are on this side of the globe, and not sharing with those in kindred pursuits in the United' Kingdom. The Times, in an article, sums up as follows :— " It has been both for agricultural and pastoral fanning the worst year known in Great Britain. Potatoes : The season is dead and gone, and, like Jay Gould, was a friend to no one and ruin to many ;— Btill, peace to its ashes. The quantity under crop is much less for next year, and we have already bad speculative inquiries for forward delivery. This looks well. No more 10s potatoes, we think. The followipg are prices to farmers, f.o.b. (packages extra, potatoes and millers' goods excepted) :— Wheat : Prime milling, 3s ; whole fowl, 2s 2d. Oats : Feed, Is 7d to Is 9d ; milling, Is lOdtolslOid. Potatoes, 225 6 d, f.o.b. Floui', roller, £9 ; bran, 555 ; pollard, 60s"; butter and cheese unaltered