GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2712, 27 April 1914, Page 5

GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT.

Messrs Dalgety and Co, Ltd r-port at follows: —

We held our weekly auction sale at our stores, Cumberland Street, to-day when we submitted a representative catalogue to the usual attendance of buyers. Prices ruled as follows : - Potatoes Consignments of late have been light, more particularly choice quality and as this is the only class buyers are showing preference for values have hardened, Medium quality is not receiving the same attention from buyers, and is not so readily quitted. iVe quote Choice well graded samples £1 10s to £1 15a per ton, medium to good £4 to £4 7s 6d per ton, sacks in.j Oats During the past week, samples have been coming to hand more freely, hutbusiness is somewhat restricted, as farmers ideas oi values are higher than buyers are prepared to give. Good bright heavy Cartons suitable for milling are saleable. Quote Prime heavy gardens 1/9 to 1/11 per bushel, Good to best feed 1/8 to 1/9, light and inferior 1/6 per bushel, Medium Is 6d to Is Bd, sacks extra. Wheat. —There is a strong demand for both milling and fowl wheat. Stocks, however, are almost exhausted in store, and either milling quality or fowl wheat are readily placed at quotations. We quote—Prime Milling to 4s 2d,. Velvet Ear and Red Chaff to 4/0, Best Whole Fowl Wheat 3/9 to 3/10, Medium 3/0 to 3/8, Inferior from 2s 9d Tuscan to 3s per bushel, sacks extra.

Chaff : Consignments of new season’s chaff continue to come to hand freely and are meeting with a moderate demand. Old season’s chaff, which is not so plentiful, is saleableable at quotations. Quote—Choice Black Oaten Sheaf to £4 Os, Best White Oaten Sheaf Chaff to £4 Os, Medium to good £3 to £3 15s, per ton, Best new Oaten Sheaf to £3 15s, sacks extra.