COMMERCIAL.
The' demand "for flour has greatly increased this ■Week. ' The millers generally are not. prepared to quit parcels on account of stocks being low and of the scarcity of good lots of wheat. The trade is supplied at Ll3 per ton in sacks. For inferior flour there is an improvement in the sale, at from LlO to Lll per ton. Oatmeal is steady, at Ll3 10s. Pearl barley quiet, and only wanted in trade lots at Ll7 10s. Bran is very scarce, and may be quoted at L3 ; pollard at L4* For good milling wheat there are buyers at 5s to 5s 3d ; the quantity available is very small, and transactions have consequently been light ; second class is offered at 4a to 4s. 6d. Fowl wheat is in demand at 3s 3d. Oats are dull ; milling kinds may be hod at 2s to 2s 2d ; feeding at Is lOcl to 2s. Malting barley in saleable at 3s 9d ; for feeding there are no buyers. Hay, L 4 10s ; chaff, Ll 15s ; straw, L 2 10s.
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Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 17 January 1872, Page 5
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176COMMERCIAL. Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 402, 17 January 1872, Page 5
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