GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 9

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

(BT On COMMERCIAL MOTOR.) Tuesday Evening. Like the Treatise , experienced recently, the gq&in maricet may 'be described as "unsettled." Rain has interfered with deliveries, and the anticipated damage dome by the floods to the crops, more especially -wheat, appears to have been greater than at first estimatetL Generally, farmers show a disinclination to operate whilst the weather is so uncertain, and cases are met with -wihere produce has been bought about a week ago for "immediate delivery," and a» delivery has yet been obtained. About the only line that is really moving is wheat, but we difficulty experienced in obtaining this cereal in satisfactory condition and suitable quantities makes it somewhat hard to determine what the bed-rock quotations are. In some instances millers have been almost compelled to buy at any ! price which "was not absolutely unreason.I able. One sale, an exceptional one it should be stated, is reported to have been effected at 3s 6d at a country station over twenty miles from port. Other, and more recent, sales at distant country stations are said to have been effected ait 3s 3£d and 3s 4d. It is well within the mark to state, that the average price of the cereal is from 39 4d to 3s 5d Consequent, apparently, on the increased value of wheat, the Mounnillera' Association have advanced tfae price of flour to £9 per ton, and the price of bran, in sympathy, has been raised to £4, an increase of ss. With regard to oats, theme is still no ap- \ parent movement, and the remarks made in our last report remain applicable to the present state of the market. Regarding the potato market there is not much to record, with tihe exception that Derwents have changed (hands art. 455. Recent cable advices from Sydney are to tihe effect that the market is lower, which eeenv to indicate that the Tasmaoian crop is i good one. The following are the currant prices pai< to farmers, and free of oommSssion, excep where otherwise specified: Wheat—Hurater'e, Pearl, and Tuscan, & 4d to 3e 5d at country etatwans, according to ditstanoe from port. Oats—Long feed 2s, j-jbort feed 2s Id, mill ing Canadians 2s 2d' to 2s 3d, at countn stations. Barley—Prime 3s to 3a 3d, at oountn stations. • ■ Beans-r-2e 8d to 2e 9d, at -country eta taons. Peas—Partridge 3s to 3s 3d, Blue Bras sians 4s, a* country stations. Flour (matters' quotations)— Roller £9 Pollard—r£4 15s per ton. Bran—£4. ~ Oatmeal—£l3, f.o.b. Potatoes—Beauty of Hebron and Mdneys, for early delivery, 40b, and Derwarits we, at country stations. Onions—£2 5s to £2 10s, at country efa. Oatsheaf OhaS—s6s to 60s at country ata, Bay—£2 10s to £2 15s, delivered in town. Grass Seed—Rye-grass, prime Heavy, town Se s' 4s ? J» f« 6d; ryegrass, Italian, ,own dressed, 4s 6d; cocksfoot, 3d? for off >rjght 141b eeed. Dairy Prodnce—Cheese, factory, 4d to lld , ; North Man d' 1W; dairy 8d o 9d; «ifc (in boxes), Bdj baconThams, .*?"-* *^> RANiaiORA. There was a good attendance at Ran%Z? ?****}%. The entry of stock wi 000 sheep, 125 cattle, and 100 pigs. Prices rerer—tfat crossbred wethers *l4s to lS 'J!' 68 **6 * to Me.KH", two-tooth XOS 10^ 12, *& wundSSuth S*" , 6d to iaWbred ewes sto ite od sound merino ewes 6s to Bs, oifew Is 6d to 2s. Cattle—Beef, 0 25s per lOOlbs fat heifers £5 15? to 'i*i *' COWB £5 lOs *° £6 > 18-months attle to two years £2 5s to £2 16s, year£1 15s ,to £2, calyes 20s to 27s 6d, prmger3£6 10s to £8. .Pigs—Baconers 7s to 50s, porkers 20s to, 25s 6d, store* Ito 6s w f anera 6s to" Bs, suckers 4a

In the produce yaoris—Sheepskins, butchers' pelts brought Iβ Bd, fannere'db Is to Is 4d, crossbred -woolly skins 3s 6d to 3s 9d mfflino do 35.9 dto 4s, fefc ib, wool 3A3 to 4d, pieces Ud to.2id. Poultry.Koosterai 3s to 3s 6d pair, hens 3s 3d to 3s 9d, small do. Iβ to.ls 6d, ducks 3s to 3s 6d, geese 6s, toirfceys 7s. Ohicfc wheat 3s to 3s 4d per bushel, do. broken 2s 8d to 6s, oats 2s to 2s 3d, bariey 2s 8d to 2a 10d, gtwMed 3s to 3s 6d, ohaff 65s ton, sharps is 6d bag, .bran 4s 6d, potatoes ss, apples 2s case, onions 6d per string.