COMMERCIAL.

Colonist, Volume XLIV, Issue 10013, 23 January 1901, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Chbistchubch, Monday.

There is a little speculative enquiry for wheat, but there is scarcely any offering. Farmers are now beginning to be busy with harvest, and with the weather so unsettled, they are, moreover, not anxious to sell their old wheat at present prices.

A few samples of new oats are now being offered, principally Canadians, and a line of 1000 bushels has been purchased at Is 3d at a country station, equal to Is 5d f.o.b. The " Akaroa Mail" states that the cutting of cocksfoot on some of the dry points, and on the roads has commenced, but the seed is barely ready, the season being quite a fortnight late. The seed on the lower lands looks remarkably well, but on the high sheltered lands, where the cocksfoot

grows tall, the crop has suffered from the wind and rain. The following are current prices, paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, for direct shipment from country stations and free of commission, exoept where otherwise specified :— Wheat (nominal) : Hunter's, Pearl and velvet 2s 3d to 2s 4d, and Tuscan 2s 4dto 2s sd. Oats (nominal): Canadians Is 8d short feed Is 7d to Is Bd, Duns Is 6d to Is 7d, and Danish Is 6d to Is 7d. New oats 13 3d to Is 5d at country stations. Barley (nominal) : Malting, 2s delivered. Beans: (nominal). Peas : (nominal), Flour (Millers' quotations, nominal) Roller £7, stone £6. Sharps: £3 10s. Bran: £3. Oatmeal: £10. Oatsheaf Chaff: 42s 6d at near country stations. Hay— £3 5s to £3 10s delivered ; primest baled, £4, f.o.b. Grass Seed : Ryegrass, farmers lots Is 9d to 2s ; prime heavy, town dressed, 2s 6d to 3s 3d, ; cocksfoot, 2Jd to 2f d for bright seed, to 3d for extra good ; town machine dressed 161 b to 171 b seed, 3|dto 4d, cow- \ grass 5d to 6d ; extra choice 6Jd ; white j clover 6d to 7^d. Dairy Produce— Cheese, factory, 4Jd to sd, dairy 4d to sd ; butter, factory, local, lOd ; dairy 7d to Bd, salt (in boxes) 6d to 7d ; bacon and hams s£d to 6d ; factory bacon and hams, £d higher.