TEMUKU GRAIN MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2686, 6 September 1905, Page 22

TEMUKU GRAIN MARKET.

The .' GhristcLurch Press correspondent writes: — > The wTwat market rensa.in's without change. Prime-iinegJoie inquired, -for ait, late rates, but aa-e-oiot. offered freely, farmers, holding for 3a at stations, while- merchaaits are offering about |,2d'less, -the state of, the English market being anything but encouraging. Stocks of really, j prims are not large in gro-wers' hands, but ibare .are fairly hea.vy stocks of f.a.q. and ' second \quality anilling, but thess aa-e not inquired for. , Whole fowl wheat is very ' scarce and wantsd, with -very little offering, ' and is likely to be very difficult to obtain for soms time. " ~" Only a few oats axe offering, -and when offered the price asked makes business very difficult to put through. Stocks in farmers' j hand's appear io bom small compass, m fact, ' farmers in many cae-es are buyers themselves, i' Potatoes are at a famine price, with' no ] .iilock -in -South Canterbury to draw upon. "Fanners era asking 20s per sack, and ai-e m .many cases getting their own price, and should an order for 20 boms come to-hamd and JSIS were ' offered, supplies would not be available m South" Canterbury. Seed's «f all kindis are selling freely, and the j week's fine weather h«« been taken advantage o-f by farmers to push >on the sowing of spring j wheat, oats,- and grass seeds. The following are prices ruling,, free of coinmassici':—Wheat: Mixed litiea, 2a 9d to 2s lid, ait.country stations. Oats: Milling, la 8d to Is 9d; Gartons, Is 9d;" Duns, Is lOd; Danish, Is 6d, at country •stations. Oowgrass, ed-ioid. Chaff: vPrime, 503. Denrwents (nominaJ), £10 'to JBII, at' country stations.