GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 174, 25 July 1916, Page 6

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

(Christeliurch Press, Saturday.) The wlieat market is maintaining ife firmness,, andi few sales are taking place. Odd lines of Tuscan are changing; hands, but there is. very little Hunters oi* Pearl coming forwaid, and the latter is increasing *in value.

There is such a scarcity of locally grown oats that no business can be donei in thenr,, ami tlie? demand for oatehoaf chaffi is- purely local. THo,fact tfet some 17.0G0 sacks of potaiioes ha,ve gone to Auckland by the last three steamers from the Soutli Island Has filled up that market for' tne- tfriie being, and no fresh business can 1 be obtained at present. The market is therefore easier in consequence ol- buyers being indifferent about making purchases. A few further sales have been made at £6' at: country stations during the last few days, and it is now very doubtful if the" growers 7 hope of obtaining: £7'for-August delivery will be 'realised1.

The following ar© prices paid to farmers at country stations, free of commission', sacks extra, except where otherwise stated :—•

Wlieat—Milling Tuscan, 4s 5d to 4r, 6d; Hunters,, 4's 9dl to- 4s lOd; Pearl, 5s to 5s 3dl ,; , , '

Oats—2s 7d to 2^ 9d for Gartons, and 2s 9d to 2s ]0d for Duns.

Barlev—(nomlinal)— Malting, 4s to 5s 6d. ". •': ■■■'. •■• : -.' ' Piour--£12% I(fe; lOaib bags, £13; 501b bag*, £W :-ss r2Slb bags, £1310&-; Bran-;—£ff per tori for shipping. Pollard—"£B" jser ton for snipping. Oatmeal—2slb. bags, £17. Oatsiheaf chaff^-r£s for prime quality •■■ •" .- V"

Ryegrass—4s to 5s ' Cocksfoot—l2lb seed 9d, 131b seed 9£d, andMb seed 10d. Potatoes—£6' to £6- Iss for July delivery. . ' Peas.—Partridge-, ss. \

DAIRY PRODUCE. Tliem are^ no> changes to note in. d'aii'y produce; Bacon pigs are scarce, and dear, sand there is" a general shortage of young pigs, as breeders were compelled to sell off their breeding sows during the summer owing to scarcity of feed. It will be some months before supplies of porkers and baeoners can increase. , .

Wholesale prices are:— Butter—Factory Is 6d (less discount), fj^meirs* separator Is 2d to Is 2£d!,. dainty l's X&& t© Is 2d. • ; Cheese—Factory (last season's) lOd, dairy 9d, loaf ,9d. (new season's) factory 9fd, dairy 7Jd to Bd. Bacon—Sides lid, rolls Is, hams Is. - Honey.—rPJictracted 4%d per lb. Eggs—ls. 3d; pel" dozen. : , '*

which was. devoted . entirely to the cultivation--of' nil ...sorts' of rare and beautiful flowers. In fact, there has been no man nf murk that I can recall who had such «i pMssion' tor flowers a*' Kitchener save, the late Joseph Chamberlain.