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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 7

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WHEAT SHIPMENTS

London, May 20, Silver, 28;}d.

Shares: .Junction, 22k 9d to 23s 9d. The wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom : s 3,920.000 quarters, and for the Continent, 3,415,000. Atlantic shipmen ts 276,000, Pacific 15,000. The total shipments for the market to Hu rope amounted to 1,08.»000 quarters,, including Argentine 382,000, Russian 100,000, Oanuhian 15,000, India 133,000, and Australasia 22,000. Professor Licht estimates that so far the produet : on of beet sugar lias decreased 1,615,000 tons, and the whole season will show a decrease of 1,760,000 tons. Mstvlcn King’s Stratford Weekly Report, At the Haymarkct on Saturday there was a medium entry of pigs. The demand was better, and prices wore a little harder in consequence. ] quote Slips and 'weaners, 5s Od to 12s 6:1; small, 2s (id to is; small stores, 16s (id; medium porkers, £1 10s; mare and foal, £1 10s; unbroken cart horse, £l3. At the Mart.—Poultry: Hons, Is to Is sd; ducks, 2k; cockerels, Is sd; potatoes, 14s per sack ; quantity of vegetables, furniture, and sundries in favour of buyers. Fruit: About 250 eases came to hand, and were sold according to—si/.e of cases and quality. Apples, dessert, is 9d to ss; cooking do., Is 6d to 2s 0d; pears, dessert, 2s to ,3s 3d.