Small Seeds Market Continues Firm
GOOD CLEARANCE OF RYEGRASS. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. The conference of grain merchants in Wellington this week interrupted business to some extent. The markets have remained firm, and there is a continuance of the export of small seeds. An estimate of the quantity of ijegrass supplied so far this season is 800 tons. This will make a good clearance of supplies before next season’s crops come on the market. This at present does not look as if it will be a heavy one.
Ordinary quality seed is quoted up to 2s 6d a bushel, with good heavy clean seed at 2s 9d. Cocksfoot is worth 6d per lb. on trucks for Bays seed and 5d for Plains; cowgrass, Sd to 9d; and white clover, lOd to 12d. So far there has been no export of these products. A slightly better demand has come from abroad for dogstail, which is quoted at 8d per lb. Chewing’s fescue has been sold for export at od per lb. Small lots of potatoes, mostly Dakotas, are going to Wellington, but, as Auckland new potatoes are arriving in larger quantities, the season for old potatoes is not likely to continue much longer.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7299, 28 October 1933, Page 6
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