MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12424, 13 February 1901, Page 2

MARKET REPORTS.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Favourable weather lias been experienced for harvesting operations during the past few days and work is now being vigorously pushed forward in all directions. Prom all parts of the district the reports are extremely favourable and the appearance ot the paddocks indicates that the yield will be exceedingly good. Rut in many cases farmers are threshing from the stook, and the wisdom of such a course, which lias often been questioned, is this season more than questionable. The season has been so uncertain, and the amount of rain during growth so much above, the average, that wheat especially cannot be in condition for some little time* and .there is little doubt but that millers and exporters will discriminate against early threshings. For the most part millers hold fair stocks of old wheat and therefore business in this is quiet, but any lines- offering receive more consideration than a little Dime back, though prices are practically unchanged. In. oats the export trade for the time is dull and business limited to |eplenishing local stocks. Barley is offering freely and average business is reported, buyers being disposed to operate in. samples showing colour and quality. Cocksfoot is not yet offering, and with the dulness existing in foreign markets prices are not encouraging. Following are quotations: qy.heat.—Prime milling nominal, Tuscan and Pearl 2s sd, Hunter's 2s 4d to 2s sd', whole fowl-wheat'2s'l'd to 2s fid. Oats (nominal).— Milling Canadians Is 7d, short feed Is 6d, Duns and Danish Is 5d to la 6d, . Barley.-i Prime malting 2s 2d to 2s 4d, medium Is lOd to 2s. Flour.—Millers quote roller £7, stone £Q, sharps £3 10s, bran £3. Oatsheaf Chaff.-iOs to 42s Gd at country stations. » Oatmeal.—£lo. ■ « Beans.--2s 5d to 2s 6d. Peas.—Blue Prussian and Partridge 2s 4d to 2s sd. ' . Seeds.—Ryegrass, farmers' 'lines Is Gd to is 9d for fair and up to 2s 6d for prime heavy farmers' seed, maohine dressed 3s to 3s 3d. Cocksfoot, farmers' dressed lines 21d to 24d for bright seed to 3d extira good. Cowgrasa 5?,d. White clove*, farmers' lines Gd' to 7£d. "Dairy Produce.—Cheese, dairy 4d to <l£d, factory 4id to sd. Butter—Fresh 'local factory 10d, best dairy 7d to 9d, salt, in boxes, Gd to 7d for prime. Bacon and hams s£d to 6Jd, factory Ad per lb higher. , The above prices, except where otherwise stated are those paid to farmers, f.0.-t., Lyttelton. RANGIORA. At the Rangiora market yesterday the attendance was beW the everage, owing to the harvesting. There were 2000 sheep in. the Cental Yards. Freezers made 19s to 20s 6d; butchers'-ewes/12s 6d to 15s; fat lambs, 15s to 15s 3d; store lambs, good quality, 12s 6d to 13s 6d; medium do 9s 6d to 10s 6d; two-tooth breeding ewes, 18s to 19s; good-mouth cfoss-breds, 16s to 17s 6d- sk and eight-tooth do, 17s. 6d to 18s 63 • old ewes, lis to 12s 6d; merino breede wes, 6s lid to 9s 6d. The yarding of cattle comprised 60 head. Beef made equal to 20s. per 1001 b; springers, £6 to £7 15s; dry cows, £3 10s to £4 10s; eighteen to twenty-months -old cattle, io 10s to £3 17s 6d; yearlings, £1 15s to Si--10s; calves, 25s to 355. There were 50 pier, entered. Porkers, 21s, 25s to 31s; sows in pig, 255, 35s to 40s; good stabblers, 15s, 18s to- 255; weaners, 7s to 8s; (suckers, 5s to 6s. At the North Canterbury Yards theie wa« an entry'of about 900 sheep and a few pigs.' The prices offered in most cases did not reach owners' reserves. A' line ot AM fat lambs were sold for 15s each. In the produce yards merino sheepskins «old to 4s sd, cro'ss-breds to 3s 2d, pelts 10a, wool up to 5£ per lb', fat Ifd, fowls 2s lid to 3s lid pair, chiekwheat Is 10d to 2s bushel, feed oats Is 6d 'to Is 74, crushed do Is 10d, Cape barley 2s 6d, beans 2s 6d, sharps 5s 6d sack, bran 3s 3d, pig-meal 6s 6d bran-meal 8s 6d, oatsheaf chaff 40s to 50s straw do to 30s, potatoes 4s cwt, plums 2d to 3d lb, apples Is 6d! to 2s 3d case, onions Id- per lb. TEMUKA.' There was a representative entry at the Yards on Tuesday, when 9000 sheep, 80 head of mixed cattle and 50 pigs -were offered. The attendance was good and there was keen competition for nearly all lines submitted. The following are; prices realised:—Sheep: Fat ewes, 15s; three-quarter-bred do, lis Id to 16s 4d; halfbred do, 13s 6d; two and four-tooth wethers, 17s 3d; store lambs, lis 9d to 12s. Pigs : Stores, 12s to 15s 9d. Cattle: Dry cows, £5 5s 6d to £5 17s 6d; forward do, £4 7s 61 to £7; steers, two.years £5, yearlings 395; calves, 13s to 15s\