GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Northern Advocate, 17 September 1934, Page 8

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

CANTERBURY MARKETS QUIET

(Per Press Association. —Copyright.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.

The potato market has again eased, and the best quotation on Friday was £2 7/6 to £2 10/, f.0.b., s.i. Some business has been done at £2 7/6. Auckland has all the potatoes it wants in the meantime, and merchants are showing no interest. The price on trucks is correspondingly easier at 27/6 per ton. Oats are quoted in the South for A Cartons at 2/7£ to 2/8, and at . Lyttelton at 2/81, f.0.b., s.i. The market is fairly steady in expectation of a continuance of export. Local inquiry is negligible.

Chaff is not much inquired for. Values are £3 17/6, f.0.b., s.i., or on trucks £2 10/.

Small quantities of grass seeds are going out for spring sowing for both the North and local use. Values for both Italian and perennial rye grass are 3/6 on trucks. The export of dogstail has continued from the South at good prices. Practically no interest is being shown in the white clover market. Cocksfoot is scarce and dear, and there will be about sufficient to supply the spring trade. Plains is quoted at 8d to 9d, and Akaroa at 10d f all to farmers. There is good inquiry for Blenheim cowgrass for export, but the Canterbury product is not up to export standard this season. It contains an undue percentage of brown seeds, and the colour is not up to export requirements. Blenheim is quoted at lOd to lid per lb„ and Canterbury 8d to lOd, to farmer's.