DAIRY PRODUCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 149, 25 May 1934, Page 5

DAIRY PRODUCE.

LONDON MARKETS STEADY.

W. Weddel and Co., Ltd., report dated London, May 23:—-Butter and cheese markets unchanged; both steady. Butter : Danish, 86s to 88s. New Zealand finest, 77s to 78s. Kangaroo finest, 74s to 755. Cheese: New Zealand white, 44s 6d to 455; coloured, 44s to 44s 6d. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., have received the following advice from their London house, dated May 23:—Dairy produce (last week’s quotations in parentheses) : Butter, New Zealand choicest salted, I s to 76s per cwt (76s to 775). Cheese: White, 45s per cwt (44s to 455); coloured, 44s to 44s 6d per cwt (445). Market steady. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. CHRISTCHURCH, May 23. The week so far has been very quiet, business in all lines being practically at a standstill. North Island inquiry for potatoes is non-existent. Some business has been done locally at £3 10s, f.0.b., s.i., for both May and June, the equivalent price on trucks being £2 10s. Farmers arc making more inquiries, but are not accepting the present price to much Fowl wheat is a shade easier, being quoted at 3s 2£d to 3s 3d f.0.b., s.e. There is_ very Little inquiry. Partridge peas are nomina ly worth 4s 3d f.0.b., s.i., for No. 1 grade. Oats are creating very little interest. A Gartons are quoted at 2s 6d, Lyttelton, and B’s at 2s 3d. The following are quotations for produce paid to farmers, on trucks, free of commission, sacks extra, except where otherwise' stated:—Wheat: New seasons (interim payment for May): Tuscan 3s Bd, Hunters 3s lOd, Pearl 4s, all f.0.b.; fowl wheat, 3s 3£d a bushel, f.0.b., s.o. for prompt. Oats: A Gartons to Is lid, B Gartons Is 7d. 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 2d per lb; cowgrass, 8d to 9d per lb. Chaff: £4, f.0.b., s.i. Partridge peas: 3s 5d to 3s 6d a bushel. Potatoes: £2 10s for whites for May and June. Onions: 22s 6d a ton. Flour: £l3 12s a ton; local; £l2 17s shipping. Bran: Large, - local, £4 10s; shipping, £4 10s a ton; small, local, £5. Pollard: Large, local, £6; shipping, £5; small, local, £6 10s. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, May 24. The Sydney wheat market is dull. Country prices on sidings, 2s a bushel bagged and Is lljd in bulk, which is equal to about 2s 7d to 2s 7£d cx trucks, Sydney. Flour: £ll 10s a ton. Bran: £4 5s a ton. Pollard: £5 a ton. Potatoes: Tasmanian, £6 10s a ton; Victorian, £6. Onions: Victorian brown Spanish, to £6 10s a ton. Maize: Yellow, 2s 8d a bushel. ADELAIDE, May 24.

Wheat, growers’ lots, is 2s 4d a bushel Flour, bakers’ lots, is £ll 12s 6d a ton. Bran: £5 5s a ton. Pollard: £5 a ton. Oats: Algerian, 2s a , bushel. Barley Best, 2s Id a bushel.

LONDON FRUIT PRICES,

LONDON, May 23.

The Sultan Star’s and Middlesex shipments of New Zealand apples sold as follows:—Jonathans, 7s 6d to 10s; Delicious, 7s 6d to 10s 6d; Cleopatras, 9s to 10s 6d; Dunns, 8s to 11s; Lord Wolselcy, 8s to 10s; Stunners, 8s to 10s 3d. Pears: Josephines, 11s 9d to 14s 3d; Winter Nclis, 11s 6d to 14s; Winter Cole, 12s 6d to 13s 3d.

FARMING NEWS

RURAL RAKINGS,

The Small Farms Board has now placed 14 settlers on the two newly-acquired farms at Broadwood, near Kohukohu, the sections ranging from 85 to 120 acres. The lafid is of first-class quality.

The Federal Cabinet has decided to make available £IOOO for one year as a contribution to the work of the wool research station at Torridon, Leeds, which was formerly financed by the Empire Marketing Board. The contributions to the station are based on sheep populations, South Africa contributing £4OO, and New Zealand and the United Kingdom £3OO each. The continuance of wet weather is delaying the preparation of tho ground for wheat (says the Christchurch Press). This is. particularly the case in South Canterbury, where very little land lias been sown in wheat so far. This delay may have an effect on the acreage for next season, as the area in Canterbury where spring sowing is undertaken with confidence is restricted. During the 1933-34 season over 20 wheat variety trials were carried out in Canterbury by the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture, in which the well and favourably known Solid Straw Juscan wheat was compared, with Cross 7, a product of Lincoln College, consisting of a cross between White Fife and Solid Straw Tuscan wheat. . .

Following an application for permission to export a number of Corriedale ewes and stud ranis to Japan, tho hederal Cabinet decided to refer the matter to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. After the Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister (Mr Lyons) said that tho Government, realising tho value of the wool industry to Australia, would take no action until it had received the most expert advice. Since 1929 there has been an embargo on the exportation of stud sheep without the consent in writing of the Minister for Trade and Customs, the ombargo being directed particularly to Merino sheep. In 1928-29, 3780 stud sheep were exported from Australia, and in 1929-30 .the number was 6396, of which 5006 went to Russia. In 1930-31 the number declined to 152, but in 1932-33 rose to 982. During the present year applications have increased and opinion appears to be divided on the question of the continuance of the embargo. Mr Lyons pointed out that there was a strong feeling that since Corriedales could be exported from New Zealand, no good purpose would be served by limiting their export from Australia.