GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 233, 1 October 1912, Page 6

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

(Christchurch Press, Saturday.)

Beyond a little coastal trade there is no business doing in the local grain market. The opinion formed some time ago that the area sown in. grain iii New Zealand this season will be considerably below the average is now strengthened by the fact that even with the spring work that has been done the arSa of land under the plough appears to, be very small. In the northern part of Canterbury, where a large area is usually sown in wheat, the paddocks are nearly all in grass. There appears to be no particular demand for wheat, but there is still a good inquiry for oats, though growers are not offering either cereal in amy quantity, and most of ' the business, that takes place is-between merchants.

Potatoes are "now selling 'at not more than £6 per ton at country stations. There is still a fair quantity going to Sydney, but these'were mostly bought forward. Seed potatoes are also easier.

The under-mentioned ar© the prices paid to farmers at country stations, free of commission, except where otherwise staged:— Wheat (nominal) —3s 5d to 3s 6<?; Pearl, 3s 6d; fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 6d at country stations. i Barley.—Nominal. Prime malting 4s 4d to 48 6d, extra prime to 4s 9d, at country stations. Oats (nominal)—C-arfcons 3s to 2s Id, Danish 2s, Duns (nominally) 2s, at country stations. Cocksfoot—Peninsula seed, 3d to j 4Jd. Flour—£B 10s per ton, IOOUn bags i £8 lfls; 501b. bags £9, 251b.. bags £9 55., . Bran—£4 los (local), £4 10s,. f.0.b., per ton. * Pollard—£6 per ton. Oatmeal—£l4 per ton. New Oatsheaf Chaff—£2 10s, at' country stations. . . ' i Potatoes. — Up-to-Dates.and Der-■ wents (nominal) £6', seed Up-to-Dates £3' 10s to £4, early varieties of seed j (nominal) £6, at country stations. j Peas—Partridge 3s to 3a 3d, Prus- i sian Blues 5s to t ss 6d, White Irories 3s 9d to 4s, at country stations. N Beans.—3s at country stations. v ; DAIRY PRODUCE. The price of butter has been reduced a penny per lb. for factory made and Jd per lb. for farmers' separator and dairy butter. Supplies are now becoming more plentiful as the fine weather of the past six weeks has produced a good growth of feed. Local prices* are recorded a» under: Cheese—Factory 6£d, dairy 6d, loaf 6|d. Butter—Factory Js to Is Id, f armors' separator - lOd to 10M, dairy 9d to 9?, d. Bacon.—Sides DJd,- rolls lOd, hams Honey—Extracted 3|d per ib. Wax—la to Is 2d per lb. Lard—Bladders Bd, pat»'B|d.' Eggs— 9d per dozen.