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Evening Star, Issue 15882, 14 August 1915, Page 1

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LONDON SHEEPSKIN JLARKET. ~ 41.® N n W Zealan ? Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received tho folffinS from their London’ -‘I omco: Sheepskins, merino combing, ' W, cross-bred combing, mostly 3d lower *. • « short shorn neglected.” •’ BRITISH CROPS. -R j LONDON, August 13. ■-! The Board of Agriculture and Foods';supplies Committee have prepared an intenm report. It is understood that, with ’ ’ a view to encouraging- wheatgrowing the- ’ report recommends that the Government ’ ■ should guarantee the farmers a certain price and also impose certain duties fm protect British farmers. ‘Daily Chronicle’ states that the •Kentish hop crop js one of the shortest; 1 on record, and is., generally estimated-at, ■; about half the avbrage. This is-duo to' the cold and wet weather and the preval-■ ■ : ■ ence of aphis, • * AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE REPORT. SYDNEY, August 12; ' ■ Oats: Tasmanian, New Zealand, and ’ American, all 55.3d; Algerian, 5s to 5s r-' 3d. Barley, nominal.- Maize, 5s 5d to 6d; Java, 5s to 5s 2d. Potatoes : inanian, £9 10s to. £ll 10s; Victorian, £9: New Zealand,’ £9 10s; New land Up-to-Dates, £B. Onions : - Vic-^B torian, £lO. Bacon, ■ ADELAIDE, August 12. Wheat, Bs. Flour. £lB Ss; Bran, lid to 2s Id. Pollard, 2s 3J,d to 2s 4jd;'