GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 123, 27 May 1930, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

POTATOES ARE CHEAPER. MAIZE IN KEEN DEMAND. Auckland is over-supplied with potatoes from the South and prices have dropped to What is an unusually low rate for this time of year. Merchants are quoting £6 10/ to £7 per ton ex store, which is 30/ lees than the current rate at this period last season. The quality is fairly good. Onions Still Cheap. Local onions are still plentiful and are also available at very low figures, namely 5/ to 6/ per ewt ex store. Some growers, ■who still have stocks that look like keeping, have decided to hold off for the better prices that are expected later on. Oats and Chaff. There is no change in the spot market for oats, and B Gar-tons are quoted at 4/10, 'but this rate will not last for. long, as there Ms been a sharp advance in forward quotations from the. South. An extra threepence per bushel is demanded for deliveries from June to September. Chaff is unaltered. Regular supplies of Southern come to hand and realise £10 10/ per ton, with Tasmaman available at £1 cheaper. A fresh shipment from the Australian State is expected at the end of this week. Maize. There are still small stocks of Java maize available which sells at 6/9 per bushel. The limited quantities of Dominion grain on the market realise 3d dearer. Small supplies of South African continue to come to hand by way of Sydney, and a. direct shipment is expected at the end of June. There is an excellent demand for this "rain, and it seems to increase each year. At one time feeders of poultry and other stock hesitated to use maize except; in the colder months between May and November, but the demand nowadays as virtually continuous, though not so heavy. in the summer months. The high price of wheat fixed by the Southern pool also has an effect in increasing the consumption of maize. The Java variety is particularly popular with poultry-keepers. Gieborne quotations at present are 5/9 per bushel for spot delivery and 5/6 for July-Atigust, when new season's will be available. Wheat. Wheat still sells at 7/10 per bushel ex store, with Southern shippers asking a penny rise Tor next months deliveries. Pollard and Bran. Bran and pollard are both in steady request, with prices unaltered. Wholesale Current Prices. Pollard and Bran .-Mill prices: Pollard, £9 10/ per ton; bran, £8 per ton. Merchants' prices: Australian and South island pollard, £10 10/ per ton. Bran.-£8 15/ to £9. Oats-Feed: B Gartons, 4/10 per Dushel, A Gartons, 5/; clipped Dunns, 6/0; clipped Algerians, 6/6; clipped Gartons, 5/3. ,' , , Fowl Wheat.—7/10 per bushel. Maize—Java, 0/9; New Zealand, 7/, ex store. _• Barley.—Feed. 5/9 per bushel. Seed: Cape Barley, 6/6 per bushel. Maize a teal—l 4/ to 14/6 per 1001b. Barlev Moal.-13/ per 1001b. Chaff.-G.b.0.5., £10 10/ per ton, Blenheim or Canterbury; Tasmanian, £9 10/. Potatoes. —£6 10/ to £7, ex store. Onions.—£s to £6, according to quality, ex store. ■'-. \ On an average thebrain of a Scotsman. | weighs half an ounce more than that of an Englishman.