TEMUKA.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 12

TEMUKA.

Our Teniuka eoiTe-;>:Midenf writes:— Pin-ins tho week there iws been a /distinct hardening and upward trend on wheat. There is practically none offering, for farmers are not anxious to soil," being of the opinion that prices will l>e weirmaintniurd. owinjr, to damcono to crops in North Canterbury ■und in rhe iSonth, and the very tsnuaii yield, tho lias revealed in South Canterbury and North Ota go. Tuscan i< particularly .-earce. A fairly portion of the wheat crop «a> threshed out of t-too'c t.hi.s year, and did not keep, ami has been sold tor feeding, good-conditioned stack-tluec-lied wheat available, in quantities not more than an- roadily taken up by iniile-r.s for up as stocks re((uiro r«fplenishing. There has at no time, apparently, been, a greater .supply than demand this year, and the supply at the. piesf>nt moment- does not appear to meet the d-ewav.d, fill lines offerinc; being taken up at once. Oats ore also in strniK demand, and the market quite bare Any lines offering have boon, taken at full rates, 2s havinc; boen raid for Danish, and up to 2s 2d at station for good ("Jartons. All potatoes efferins nu-et n ready marker. Nearly ail are now dug. and crops have tunwd out very light. Apparently there will be only a few hundred ton" available for South Canterbuiy. Sheaf chaff is enquired for. but in s-ympathy with cats is held firm. Tho following; are price* paid to t.irmem at country >taticas. free of commission:— AVheat. prinio milling 3~ 2d to .'is -Sd; pearl or velvet. .% Id to 3.s 3d: Hunters. 3s Id to .'Js 2d: fowl wheat (scairce), i'« lid to IK

.Oar*- —tanadwßK ai\d .\ dartons, _s 2d; R Gartor.s. 2s Id: Duns, 2s Id; D.itiifh. 2-. Barloy—Mailing. 3« (id to 4>: TiKxlium. 3s to 3s 3d. Poas. 3k to 3s 3d. Beans. 2s Od to 3s. foot, to -Id. according to quality I'otatow, £S 10b to £U; Up-to-Datce £9 10^