GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15267, 1 May 1915, Page 11

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

"'' . (VT OCB, COWtZBCUI. IDITOR.) ' - • . Friday Evening. The threshing returns up to the end ■ - .orMarch show that 4,665,529 bushels 0$ vheat have "been, bagged, and there ■ ?ul bo at least another million bushels to add when the threshing is completed. It.appears, therefore, as if the crop tHD Oβ little ehort of requiremente. The'Tvheat market is at a standstill, there boing no buyers at present. Tb» local oats market is easier, a s no boßneae can be- done against the lower '"* rates offering from Southland. Buyers ( ' aiß not offering more than 3s 6d at j . country stations, but farmers aro not / "willing to accept this figure. _;• There is nothing doing in barley, as " c - all'the prime quality grain has now J . changed hands. The chaff ma-rkot is firm. " . .-Offerings of potatoes have eased <\8 i ,\, since tho prico was reduced to £3 15s — /, .at country stations. Some shipments hare been made to Sydney, but pi irate ; „ advices state that the market is easier V tier©. -> The following are tho prices paid to % >*nnera. at country stations, free of > . TOmmis>ioQ, sacks extra, except where otherwise stated:— > TVheat—lmported. 5s 9d; new sea- ; son's Tuscan and HunWre (nominal), ; *4dto & sd: Pearl, 6s 6d. • ! ( ; Oats (nominal)—Gartons, 3e 6d to 3s ~; 'r '«;-Algerians (nominal). A . Barley (nominal) —Prime malting, 5s i ':. 3d: medium, 4s 6d to ss. J "-. Hour—£l7 10s f.0.b.: 1001b bags, 4 :• |18; 501b bags, £18 os; 251b bags, £18 ■f, - £7 5s per ton, local; £7 for J -* - *JPping. . Pollard—£B per ton. • , Oatmeal—£l9 per ton. ~ : /' Oatsheaf Chaff—To £6. '-: :■ Oat Straw Chaff—£2 os to £2 10s per *' *. ".Wheat and Straw Chaff—£2 to £2 5s >: : L *• ton. :'g '. -"B»led Straw—£2 per ton. •M '*/• Potatoes—£3 los per ton.M £3 per ton. i* "V ryegrass —os to 5s 6d, extra at 6s. Cloror—ls 2d to Is -M. ££- 5k M to 6s. m Gd to 7d per lb.