THE PRODUCE MARKET.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2263, 8 May 1891, Page 2

THE PRODUCE MARKET.

Grain.—Wheat s Prime milling, northern velvet, and Tuscan, 4s 7d to 4s 8d ; southern, 4s 6d to 4s 7d; medium, 43 31 to 4s 51; inferior aud good old fowls' feed, 3s 6d to 4s (ex store, terms). Oats : There is but little ohange in the position of the market with regard to these. Qaotatisns for best feed and milling, Is 5Jd to Is 6^d; medium to good feed, Is 51 to Is 5Jd ; inferior, Is 3d to Is 4£d; extra clean and fit for seed, small parcels fetch Is 6|l to Is 7d (ex store, sacks extra). Barley : Qaotations for beßt malting, 3s to 3s 41; medium, nominal, 2s 61 to 2s 91 ; feed and milling, 2s to 2s 31 (ex store, sacks extra; terms). Grasß Seeds.—Market lifeless, Machine best-dressed ryegrass seed, 63 61 to 5a 91; medium, 5s to 5s 3d ; farmers' best dressed, 3s 91 to 4a 31; medium, 2s 61 to 3s 61 (ex store). Cocksfoot nominal. Potatoes.—Deliveries continue in excess of requirements, and prices this week are rather .easier, oaly very prime lots reaching last week's quotations —viz ; For best Derwents, 47a 61 to 50a ; medium, 40s to 45a per ton; (ex store, sacks in). Chaff.—For best, 50a to 52a 61 V medium, 42s 6d to 47s 6d; inferior, 30s to 40a per ton. Pairy Produce.—Prime salt batter jo in

ahort supply and in request, but without much improvement in price, which remainß at 6d to 7d per lb ; medium, almost unsaleable. There is no improvement in the demand fur cheese. Quotations I For medium size factory- made, 4£d to 4Jd ; loaf, 4£d to 5d per lb.