TIMARU MARKETS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10580, 8 October 1910, Page 6

TIMARU MARKETS.

•' ■';: ; ■'■" "(Froiji ,th&: Timaru Herald.)-•• % ;Every-effort 'is-being made in South Canterbury to have any surplus sprouted wheat exported Home, as this is recognised as being:the only means of dealing with this class of grain. .The Corinthic. which" is expected at' Tiniaru on the'2oth ih'stJ. will liftabout 22,000 sacks of damaged grain, and she will be the last .vessel, this season to ship at the cheapi freight. In sprouted wheat generally there is only a limited demand, and it is being bought at 2s 9d to 3s on trucks according-to quality, hi good wheat - there is practically; no business passing, millers having" filled present requirements,' and it is tielieVed that export. Home with the ruling'rates would be far from profitable. Millers are- inclined ' : to think• that--'prices; will' collapse, while' Lolders seem convinced that there is-not enough "good wheat in the country to go round. For'lines of undoubted qualitv velvet is worth 4s per bushel, delivered.Timaru, sacks extra-. Tuscan 3s-3d, and Red Chaff 3s Gd. delivered Timaru. One local not a member of i the Association, has rsduced the-price.:bf" fioiir to £8 10s per ton, and the price of pollard by 10s a .

ton. The flour trade is fairly dull, and millers are reported to..he/holding., large -stocks.;,. ■ ■■;•?:'■'*'■ -" '■--' '■ ■ ■■'- ' ' , Owing,, to- the:-:---.dry.-weather ■>-oats: price's' 'ar6"ln'cKned"'fi> "be "harder, but the demand is mainly a local one. : 'The potato market; is- steady, best samples "being worth £7. a' ton, ex Store, sacks in. Seed'potatoes are scarce, and practically unobtainable. A NOTABLE PRIZE-WINNER. Mr J. A. Cochrane, Aitkenside, Ceres, near Geelong, .who won all'the prize money offered for Border Leicester sheep at the recent Melbourne ■Show, as well as all the Championships in that section, informs us that his Show-Sheep were dipped in Quibell's, and the. splendid lustrous fleeces they carried is the best proof- that can; be offeree! of the superior effect of Quibell's Dip on,the.wool.