GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
Wheat continues firm. Although no actual sales are reported, inquiries are still coming in from tho North Island. Several lines of oats have been sold for shipment lo Sydney. This will tend to harden the market locally ; and, should the present wet weather continue, stocks will rapidly diminish, and prices should remain firm. Large quantities of potatoes have gone forward to Auckland during the past week. Dnring the recent fine weathei", farmers were unwilling to leave their farming operations and open potato pits ; consequently buyers in some cases have had difficulty in fulfilling ordera by this week's boats. The following are current prices : — Wheat. — Pearl (prime milling), 3s 5Ad ; millers' mixed lines, 3s 4d to 3s s£d ; Tuscan, 3s sd; Hunter's, 3s 4 Ad; good seconds, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Oats. — Prime lnilliug, 2s 2d (nominal) ; good stout feed, 2s ; Duns and Danish, 2s Idto2s2d. Barley. — Malting 1 , prime, nominal, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; medium do, 2s 9d to 3s 4d ; feed, 23 3d to 2s Gd. Beans (nominal). — Well-saved, 2s 7d to 2s Bd. Peas. — Blue Prussians, 3s 9d to 4s j others, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Flour. — Millers quote roller .£lO, stone. £9 10s, sharps £1 ss, bran £3 los. Oatmeal.— <£ll. Oatsheap Chaff. — 40s to 45s at handy country stations for prime samples. Potatoes. — Derwents 42s 6d to 45s at country stations. Grass Seed. — Eyegrass, farmers' lots, 2s 3d to 2s 9d j machine-dressed to 3s 9d, heavy-weight 4s to 4s 3d. Cocksfoot, farmers' lines 4d to 4jd, town machinedressed 161 b seed 4jsd, 171 b seed sd. Cowgrass, farmers 5 lines 4d to 6d. White clover 4d to 7«d. Alsike 4d to s.\d. Dairy Produce. — Cheese 83d to 4d, loaf 4d to 4rl&. Butter — Fresh factory Is to Is Id, frozen lOd to lid, dairy 9d, salt (in boxes) 6*d to 7d. Bacon and hams 6d. The above prices are paid to farmers f.o.b. Lyttelton, except where otherwise stated.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5656, 29 August 1896, Page 7
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329GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5656, 29 August 1896, Page 7
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