GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 14, 17 January 1913, Page 2

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

fChiistchurch Press, Wednesday.) There is a little inquiry for wheat, ! and a small amount of business is ! oeing done between merchants and | millers, but there is no grain offering : from growers. No threshing of new I oats has yet been done, but it is i expected that. a start .will be made i this week. The early cut oats, exj ce^pt Algerians, are expected to be I very light,, as the hot weather just ■ wior to cutting ripened the crops off ; too fast. ' .-...• : The samples of new grass seed that have been offered are veiy light, and : have evidently been. prematurely ripened through the heat. The hot wind prevailing at l the time of writing will be severe lipon growing crops and pastures. The under-mentioned are the prices paid to farmers at country stations, free of commission, except where otherwise stated: — AVheat (nominal).—Prime Hunter's 3s 6d. Tuscan 3s s£d to 3s 6d, Pearl 3s 7d to 3s Bd, fowl wheat 3s 3d to 3s 4d. at country stations. Barley.—Nominal. Prime malting 43 4d to 4s 6d, extra prime to 4s 9d, at country stations. Oats (nominal). —Gartons Is lid to 2s. Duns lg lid, Danish (nominal) Is lOd. at country stations. Flour—£B 10s per ton, 1001b. bags £8 15s, 501b. bags £9, 251b. bags £9 ss. Bran—£4 15s (local), £4 10s, f.0.b.. per ton. Pollard—£6 per ton. Oatmeal—£l4 par ton. Oatsheaf Chaff (nominal)—£2 10s, at country stations. Peas—Partridge 3s to 3s 3d, Prussian Blues 5s to 5s 6d, White Ivories 3s 9d to 4s, at country stations. Beans—3s, at country stations.

THE EGG MARKET. At the auction sale of guaranteed e£gs_ yesterday, prices realised were: —First grade hen eggs, Is Id to Is lid1; second grade, Is to Is Id; duck eggs, Is to Is id.