CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume X, Issue 884, 4 February 1891, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

The following is tbo Corn Exchange rtport(perN. P. Meyers, Secretary) « for the week ending Friday, January 30tb, 1891 :— Farming opera 1 ions arc now m full swing, •nd the town presents an especially quiet appearance on market days. Only a few lines have as yet, been threshed and put on the market, and from what we can learn the prospecls m general nrc not so gloomy as was at one time expected. The samples submitted are bright and clean, but not heavy. The outside demand is only oF a retail nature. Dealers are waiting fur a more decided development of the markets before launching into furl hot* speculations. Milling wheat (old) has a fair heal enquiry among local /nillers, and whole cluckwheat is wanted m small lines, Uats arc dull, with planty of old and new offering nt our quotations. .Barley remains inactive, but m grass seed the inquiry is brisk, and farmers should have no trouble m effecting sales. Cocksfoot is also asked for, but prices asked by growers has precluded business up to the present. Quotations as follows: — I ."Wheat —Tuscan, Us «d; pearl, 3s 6d .Jo 3s7d;Jlu; •■:or's/ 8s 4d to 3s sd; whole cbiclr, 3.* v wZU, broken, 2s yd. ■ Oats —Milling, is ad to Is 9d; short feed, Is 7d to Is 8d; Danish, Is 6d. j Barley—Malting, 3s to 3s 3d; feed^ ' Is 9d to 2s. llye Grass —Town machine dresseJ, 4s i|d to 5s ; farmers' machine dresseJ, 4s to 4.S Gd ; ordinary, 3s to 3s Gd. Dairy Produce —Butter, factory, 7d to 8d ; farmers, keg, (jd to 7d ; cneese, small eize 4^d, large and medium Sid todd. The above prices uiv tiioac pai.; to farmers for delivery f.0.b., at Lyttelton : sacks extra .__ . ' -