MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 10482, 20 October 1894, Page 3

MARKET REPORTS.

The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Association of Canterbury, Limited, reports for the week ending Friday, Oct. 19, as • follows: Daring the weak tho grain and produce business has been fully up to tbe average at this season of the year, exports being well maintained. Wheathan been dealt with at fluctuating rates, dependent upon holders, anxiety to realise, but the exports for tho week have had a marked effect on the stocks held, and market closes steady at quotations. Oats have been offering more freely, and excepting for local demand inquiries are limited. Beans and peas unchanged. Ryegrass, cocksfoot, and clovers have no tv only retail demand. Potatoes show no improvement, and are lifeless. Dairy produce, with lino weather, is in full supply, and prices all round lower. Present quotations f.o.b. Lyttelton, Backs extra : Wheat:— Prime milling Pearl, Velvet or Tuscan 2s 8d; Hunter's 2s 7d j rocond class Id to 2d per bushel lean. Oats Milling Canadians Is 7d, short feed la 6d, Duns la 7d, Danish Is Sd to Is 6d. Barley—-Nona offering; prime malting, nominally 3a 8d to 3a lOd, medium 3a to 3a Gd. Peas—Bluo Prussians 2a 6d to 2s Od, beans 2a sd. Potatoes, nominally 16a at country stations. Eyegrass Machine-dressed 4a 6d,.'ordinary 4s, farmers’ undressed samples 3s to 3a 6d. Cocksfoot Machino-dressed Sd to Get, ordinary 4d to 6d. Red clover and cowgrasa 6Jd to 7d. Cheese—Largs 4&d. Butter—Prime fresh Gd to 7d, separator 9d. Bacon and hams 7d. Oaten sheaf chaff 60s, sacks included. Exports for the week—Wheat 6266 sacks, cats 1190 Backs, chaff 1946 sacks, seed 65 sacks, potatoes 2377 sacks. ' 6748

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports for the week ending Friday, Oct. 3.9, 1894, an follows:—Wheat Business in this market continues quiet, and tho demand for milling lines ia limited. Whole fowl wheat commands full prices, but transactions are chiefly of a retail character. Present values are—Tuscan and Pearl 2s 7d to 2s Bd, Huater’o 2s 6d to 2s 7d, whole fowl wheat 2s 3d to 2s 4i per bushel f.0.b., sacks extra. Oats—-With the exception of a email local demand there is an absence of inquiry which causes values to be depressed. To-day’s quotations are Prime milling Is 7d to Is 81, short feed la 5d to In 6d, long Is 3d to Is Sd, Dans Is 64 to la 7d par bushel f.0.b., oacks extra. Barley—Nothing doing. Grass seeds—Ryegrass, old pasture, 4s Gd, ordinary quality 3s 6d to 4a per bushel, oocfcefoot, dressed seed,, 5d to 6d per 3b, undresssd 4d to 5d per lb. Clover seed— Good samples of colonial cowgrass and red clover meet with a ready rale r,b 6£d to 7d per lb, machine-dressed 70s to 72a 6d per cwfc. Potatoes.—Market stagnant, and values remain nominally at 15a per ton at country stations. Grain Auction.—We hold our final sale of the season on Oct. 19, and were favoured with a full attendance of the trade. We submitted a varied catalogue of wheat, oats, barley, &c. f and quitted the bulk of tho lines offered at the following range of prices Wheat, milling, 2s 6d to 2s 7d; whole fowl feed, 2s to 2a 4d; oats. Is 2d to Is 7d; barley, 2s 6d to 3a, all ex store, sacks extra. 21

The Canterbury (H.Z.) Shed Company, Limited, reports on the seed market for the ’reek ending Oot. 19, as follows:—It is becoming mors evident every day that spring sowing ie over. The demand for coeds is limited to odd lots to finish up. Turnips are in request, and good business has been done during the weak. Rape is also being sown to a considerable extent; stocks of this seed are low until the arrival of the Tainui, which brings fresh supplies. A little cowgtasa has changed hands during the week at full rates, but there is nothing worthy of note in the way of any outside business, and as the spring season is over any purchases will have to be held till the autumn. Ryegrass—'We quote Machine-dressed, 3s 6d to 4s 6d, farmers’ samples 2s 64 to 3s; cocksfoot, machine-dressed 5d to Gid, other samples from 4d to 4f d, seconds Id to 2d; clovers, imported white 90s to 120 a, colonial HOsto 120 s; cowgra-39, 70a to 80s for maohinedressedand 6d to 7&d for farmers’ lots; alsike 70s to 85s for imported, 100 e for colonial; rape, best quality Broadlsaf Essex 22a 6d; trefoil colonial, 35s to 455, English 60s ; lucerne 65a; prairie grass, 4a; meadow fescue 70s, sheep fescue 60s, hard fescue 60a, Chewing’s fescue 955; mangolds, colonial 955, imported 112 s; Timothy, colonial 37s 6d to 42a 6d; turnip seed, Abardcens 80s to 85s, other sorts 75s to 100 s, Elephant Swede 1255.

The usual sale of stock was held at the Barfield yards yesterday. There was a fairly good demand for all classes of sheen. Cross-bred hoggets advanced in price Is, and in some cases Is 6d per head, and ewes and lambs sold well. A line of 1100 store sheep was withdrawn. The total entries comprised 3353 sheep, 20 head of cattle and 30 pigs, which were offered by Messrs Pyne and Co., H. Matson and Co., Todhunter and Jennings, J. T.„ Ford and Co., the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company and, Messrs I'. G. Staveley and Co. Prices realised were:—Heavy-weight cross-breda up to 19a 6d, freezers at 15s 9d to 16s 7d, fat cross-bred ewes at 15s, fat cross-bred hoggets from 10a 7d to 14s, stores, hoggets from 6s lid to 9s 10d,, crosa-brod ewes with lambs at 12s Id to/ 15s, merino ewes and lambs at 9s Bd, and store merino wethers from 5s to 9a 3d.