GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XVI, Issue 235, 6 October 1881, Page 2

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

i (','. Weekly Press.") . . The r.-ac:i-.m m ih« iv.>me wheat market duritiK (he Week lias tiveu satisfaction to those .who have whea' no. the w«y or just arrived. Prices may, however, be expected to fluctuate acu. rdirig to ' the disposition' of American specu a r- to sell or buy. They bold some 45,1)00;i.iUi) bii;hei« wheat on the lOih August as "\yiij 6e.ii tail from the following report : — '"'L'iiV \", iiciii../y> i ring, w ich has the wheat f i hi- country cmuer-d, now seem likely to make Koine ini> ey. Yet those who know the inside <>l Uhiago *i> eolations from a Cincinnati st nd.'Wut. are fearful of the result. Nine urn of every tm of (he Ciucinnatiaas who go to Chicago for wool cine back shorn. Hiiu.y, the riguieh-ad, is a very perais em fellow, hut takes too great risks. He has Dccii i ; fidb : m-h several times and a poor one an often. He is ha.-kwl, from what can be gathered, >i-y'--tha' 'Third • National Bank manners, l.y one i.r b"th members of a heavy; pjipeh,' manufacturing jrm, : by C. Y. Root, a *eaitby grain man, and by the Aaitoir Company here, which is composed of a dozen nr two of Cincinnati's wealthiest men shrewdest and fi anciera. A private let er from Cbicr.^o nays that Handy's cliqm bave abou' twenty millions August wheat long, and a Chicago firm have about twenty-five millions September m their grasp. Locally only a few smaU sales have been reported at 4s Gd. The flour market is quiet, and we have not heard of any sales of any consequence. Prices remain without quotable change. - A few sales of oats have been made at It, but business has been confined to almnst retail limits. The barley market is quiet, and lit ■ le doing at 3a to 3s 4d for best samples. Potatoes are quite unsaleable at a priStt which would repay the co?t of sending them forward. Id diary produce there i 3 but lii Me doing, the only trans .ction of vote being the sale of 30 tons cheese at 3|fd.