DAIRY PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 120, 20 April 1934, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE.

CHEESE SLOW; BUTTER QUIET. Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd., have received from London the following cabled advice, dated April 18: —New Zealand butter, 70s por cwt. Now Zealand cheese, 42s por cwt. Both markets quiet. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Coy., Ltd., have received the following advico from their London houso dated April 13:—Dairy produce (last weok’s quotations in parentheses) : Butter, New Zealand choicest salted, 70s per cwt (70s to 71s). Cheese, coloured, 42s per cwt (435); white, 42s to 42s 6d per cwt (435).. Markets slow. CANTERBURY MARKETS QUIET. POTATOES SLIGHTLY EASIER. CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. The small seeds markets has attracted little interest sinco tho Easter holidays. Thera is very little seed in farmers’ hands, and it is probable that when tho demand for spring sowing comes along supplies will bo scarce. Ryegrass, both Italian and perennial, is worth 3s 6d a bushel for good heavy seed, and 4s 9d f.0.b., s.i., for machine dressed. The little in farmers’ hands is held for higher values than 3s 6d. Akaroa cocksfoot is quoted at Is 2|d to Is 3d per lb for machine dressed. Very little is held by growers. White clover has been a very small crop fliis season —one of the shortest, as a matter of fact, for years. Prices for it are firm. _ Some of the samples of cowgross coming forward are Qf inferior quality, and show a heavy loss in dressing. The season. for it has boon very late, and the possibilities are that a proportion will not be harvested. For good quality seed quotations average from 8d to 9d, and inferior somo pence less. Reports from various parts of the province stato that disease is appearing in somo of tho potato crops. The season in South Canterbury has been favourable to blight, and in at least one case, it is reported, a grower has turned his sheep on to a field. Almost invariably one district or another develops somo pest or blight trouble, and tho influence on tho general yield is not necessarily important. The market romains quiet and is inclined to be a little easier. Prompt whites are quoted at £4 2s 6d a ton, f.0.b., s.i., or £2 17s 6d to £3 on trucks. The onion market is sick, quotations on trucks being 30s.

The following are quotations for produce paid to farmers, on trucks, free of commission, sacks extra, except whero otherwise stated: —Wheat: New season’s (interim payment), Tuscan 3s 7d, Hunters 3s 9d, Pearl 3s lid, all f.o.b. ; fowl wheat, 3s to 3s 4id a bushel, f.0.b., s.c., for prompt. Oats: A Gartons, Is lid to 2s, B Gartons, Is Bd. , Italian ryegrass: 3s 6d a bushel for heavy seed; perennial ryegrass, 3s 6d a bushel; cocksfoot, 9d to lOd per lb for Akaroa; to 9d for Plains; white clover, Is to Is 3d per lb; cowgrass, 8d to 9d per lb. Chaff: £4 f.0.b., s.i. Partridgo peas: 3s 5d to 3s 6d a bushel. Potatoos: £2 17s 6d to £3 for whites, fer April-May-June; Dakotas, £3 ss. Onions: 30s a ton. Flour: £l3 12s a ton, local; £l2 17s shipping. Bran: Largo, local, £4 10s; shipping; £4 10s a ton; small, £5. Pollard: Large, local, £5 10s; shipping, £4 10s; small, local, £6.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, April 19. ' Wheat in the country is quoted at (bagged) Is lid, bulk Is 10>;d; equal to about 2s 7jd and 2s 71 d a bushel respectively, ex trucks, Sydney. Flour: £ll 10s a ton. Bran: £4 ss. Pollard: £5. Potatoes: Tasmanian, £lO a ton; Victorian, £8 10s. Onions: Brown Spanish, £4 10s a ton; white, £7. Maize: 3s a bushel. ADELAIDE, April 19. Wheat.—Growers’ lots, 2s 3jd a bushel; flour, bakers’ lots, £ll 10s a ton. Bran, £5. JPollard, £4 15s. Oats: Algerian, 2s a bushel. Barley, 2s 3d. FARMING NEWS. RURAL RAKINGS. Reference to the remarkable number of sheep which have been driven from the Gisborne district to the' Bay of Plenty and the Waikato was made during the hearing of a Court action, one witness stating that he could personally vouch for mobs totalling 105,000, which passed over the Motu route during the season A suggestion that all bona fide dairy farmers should be licensed as a move toward raising and maintaining the standard of the Dominion’s export dairy produce was put forward by Mr James Lemmie, at the annual meeting of the Masterton branch of the Farmers 1 Union. He stressed the necessity for an improvement in the standard of the dairy industry and presented a remit he had drafted to go forward to the interprovincial conference at Wanganui should it be considered suitable.