CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1913, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET

(BT TELKOItAI'ff— VKSSS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, 21sfc January. The hot weather during the pnsfc £<mv c'a>b would havo tho effect of ha*:,oning tho ripening of forward cropc, though tho nor'-west winds have no doubt caused somo cUma'ge. Fair progress has been 'node with tlis cutting of oats and barlpy. A few lot 3of oats havo been threshed oUt of stook, but very little grain has yet bnen sold. Farmers aro looking forward to 2s per bushel. rm(, buyers are not inc'ine.d .to offer moro than Is 9d and Is lOd. At tho latter figure a good line each of Gartons .tiid Algerians, has been sold. Molt of the oats offering are Algerians, arid for thest there is little demand. There does not appear to be any outlet at present for oats, but stocks are bo low that merchants aro prepared to buy, but rofc to give an extreme price thus early in thi season. No wheat and very _ little barley has been offered. A» There it a splendid orop of barley in Marlborough this season, malstors aro evidently 'waiting Until it is seen how tho market, there opens, tie 110 busmps.? in jet lepoitcd locally. Ryeg_rass heed' that has come on the mar kct is very light, and is valued afc not moro than Is 3d to Is6d, but no sales aro yet reported. A little bmineES has been done in autumn-sown onions at about £6 p«?r _ ton. Onion crop will not bo leacty till next month. It is reported to be much better than last years, and the mferket is oxpected to open at about £3 10s per ton.