CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 293, 8 December 1923, Page 8

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

EFFECT OF DRY WEATHER. [BT TELE-BATH. —PBESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. Scorching winds continue with little interruption and there is little doubt thai the crops over a wide area of the lig'itor land have been seriously affected. Owing to the broken autumn very little early cr„ti was got in. and the bulk of the bo»mg was done in September and as late as October. The later sowings are hanging fire under tho conditions prevailing and at present _c indications are that the yields from the spring sown areas will be very heavily reduced The market response to the con lit ions prevailing has been confined so far to cat* They have jumped up from 3s -3d to 3» M, f.o.b.s._ Practically no oats from last season axe held in store and this ia a stimulant to the keenness of operants. Quotations are about 2a lid a bushel, ai country Stations. Chaff has naturally finned in sympathy with oats and is qnoted at £4 ISs - ton at ceountry stations. Sales have been mads np to £1 a ton. L0.b.8-i., for delivery next month. The sowing of potatoes was carried on until the end of November, a stimulus being given by the early November statistical report of a shortage in the estimated area of 4000 acres. It is undoubted that much of this shortage has been made up as seed was cheap and plentiful. Yields from such areas, however, are problematical but the earlier sown crops so far are looking well They are mostly on land that had a good reserve .of moisture. Sales for new season s ordinary delivery have been made at _5 a ton. . Machine dressed cocksfoot is quoted on id per lb. equal to 5d to 6d to farmer*. Quotations for next season's ryegrass are being made _n the "basis of from 4s to 4s Sd for Italian and 4s to _ 6_ for perennial at country stations. White clover and oowgrass are very dull, particularly the latter, which is quoted at about Sd per lb to farmers. C—ewings fescue and dogstail are both dull and have been bought at •.bout' 8d "per lh, machine dressed, f-o.b. at Dnnedin and Bluff.