Timaru Grain Market

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 6205, 27 February 1904, Page 4

Timaru Grain Market

(From our own Correspondent.) Timaru, Feb. 26. The grain market at Timaru, as our Yankee cousiussay, 13 now " getting a move ot>," aad is generally vory firm. Til ore is also a buoyancy abi>ut it that promises well for the near future at any rate. Samples of wheat are now coming in, both from the northern aud southern districts, and generally they are in very good condition. Sales of mixed lines have been made at 3s to 3s Id, on truck 3at country stations; and there are a good many enquiries on the part of: millers. The weather is all that could be wiahed, and threshing is being vigorously proceeded with. Oats—The market has scarcely settled down as far as Timaru is couc9ri ci, but sales have been made nt Is 4d for Duns and Gartons, and Is 2s for Danish. In barley very little is moving. Growers are asking 3s tor malting, but buyers decline to give it. The rise in prices at Home, for wheat especially, and the . ready sale for cargoes, deeply interest the farmers, who are in no hurry to rush their grain on the market. They have excellent crops, and the grain this year is, taken all round, of the very best quality.