CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET.

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 56, 8 March 1919, Page 4

CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET.

(BI TELEBRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHUURCH, 7th March. There will be apparently very little second wheat this season, due to the prime quality of the crop. There are complaints, however, that the screens .on the threshing niills are being set too close, and not enough seconds aro being taken out. . There is likely to he a shortage of Pearl and Hunters wheat fot mixing purposes this year, as farmers' were encouraged to grow Tuscan as being likely to give a greater yield, and as there was only ono fixed price there was naturally no inducements to grow the harder and lower yielding wheats. The oats market has weakened still further, but there are now signs that it has reached its lowest .point for the time being. Tho crop is yielding heavily, and the quality is high, ■ but there does not appear likely to be sufficient i demand within the Dominion to absorb the whole of the crop. The North Island is likely to be more independent of southern supplies of fodder than it was last winter, and it would appear that there has been no warrant for the high prices that were paid early in the season for forward delivery. A grade Gartons are now quoted at 3s 4d per bushel on trucks,' and B grade at 3s 3d. Algerians are quite neglected,, and are not quotable at more than 3s to 3s 3d, and Duns at Ss 3d to 3s Gd at country stations. There ,is no sale for oatshcaf chafT at present, and buyers are not inclined to offer more • than £4 Is per ton at country stations. There is no change in white clover, which Is worth lOd to Is 3d per lb, and a halfpenny more for very clean. There is very little doing in ryegrass, -and the cocksfoot market has eased, 121b to 12Jlb Beed being worth 7Jd to 8d per lb, 1211b to ISIb seed BSd, and 141b to 101b seed 9d to lOd. There are a few orders now coming to hand from Wellington for potatoes, and merchants are offering £5 10s per ton at country stations for prompt delivery, and £5 for April-May delivery. The weather has continued flue during the week, enabling harvesting and threshing work to be carried on -without interruption and the grain to be secured in excellent order.