PRODUCE, &c.

Press, Volume L, Issue 8535, 15 July 1893, Page 10

PRODUCE, &c.

: This New Zealand Farmers' Co-opera-tive Association of Canterbury, Limited,

report for the week ending Friday, July 14th, as follows:—

The improvement in the weather will be gladly welcomed by farmers, but the recent soaking will be beneficial to many districts. Business in grain and produce during the week has naturally been affected to some extent by the financial complication which has occurred, but generally a healthy tone prevails. The wheat market, in the absence of freight, continues sluggish, and millers fiud no difficulty in filling their wants at quotations. Oats remain firm, though outlets at present prices are restricted. There are unfilled enquiries for malting barley, but stocks in growers' hands are very light. Beans and peas are quiet. The -demand for ryegrass and cocksfoot is steadily depleting stocks, and prices of both tend upwards. . Potatoes Continue the subject of local speculation, which has caused a further advance, but buyers in other centres cannot yet make up their mind to purchase at prices asked. Dairy produce is in full supply. Present quotations are:— Wheat—Prime milling Tuscan and pearl 2s 9d to 2s lOd, Hunter's 2s 8d to 2s 9d. Oats—Milling Canadians 2s 3d, short feed 2s Id, duns 2s Id, Danish ls lid.

Ryegrass—Old pasture machine-cleaned 4s 6d, ordinary 4s 3d, farmers' parcels 2s 6d to 3s 6d.

Cocksfoot—Bright seed, 151b per bushel, 3id; 141b, 3*d ; lighter, 2*d to 2|d. Potatoes—Bos to 82s 6d, f.0.b., country stations 67s 6d to 70s.

Butter-*rPrime fresh 8d to lOd, Bait 7d. Bacon and hams, clothed, 7d to 3d. Cheese—Loaf 4£d to*sd, large 4d to 4id. Oaten sheaf chaff 67s 6d to 70s, f.o.b.