GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5763, 6 January 1897, Page 2

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

But little business has been doitig ill the grain market since the holidays. The Co'-.* tinued dry weather is militating considerably against the prospects of anything like a fair yield for the coming harvest. Should ra^n fall now it might help the later Bown wheat to fill, but the bulk of the oat crop is too far advanced for rain to be of much service. There is no wheat offering, and business in this cereal is quite at a standstill. The bad harvest prospects have had the effect of causing a slightly harder tendency in both oats and oatsheaf chaff. Several paddocks of oats have been cut already, and the straw is so short as to produce but little chaff, whilst the heads are so light as to be hardly worth threshing. The effect of this will probably be that better prices will rule later on, and last season's stocks of oats and chaff may yet be realised with advantage to the grower. Sparrowbills have been sold at 2s and Duns at Is lld., f.o.b. The following are current prices : — Wheat. — Pearl (prime milling), 4s 7d; Tuscan, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; Hunter's, 4s 5d to [ 4s 6d; good seconds, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Oats. — Canadians (milling), 2s Id ; stout feed, 2s ; Duns and Danish, Is lld. Barley. — Malting, prime, nominal, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; medium do, 2s 9d to 3s 4d ; feed, 2s to 2s 2d. Beans (noinhial), 2s Bd, Peas.— Partridge, 3a. Flour.— Millers quote roller £11 ids, stone i.lO 10s, sharps £3 10s, bran £3 ss. Oatmeal.— .fill lOs. 9„tsheaf CHAff, -.Nominally 40s at handy country stations for prime samples. Grass Seed. — Ryegrass, farmers' lots, 2s 4d to 2s lOd; machine-dressed 3s 9d, heavy-weight 4s to 4s 3d. Cocksfoot, farmers' linos 3d to 3_d, town machinedressed 4£d to sd. Cowgrass, farmers' lines 4d to G.'.d. White clover 6d *-_ B_d. Alsike 6d to Gd. L "Oaiuy Produce. — Cheese 3d to 4d, . V <Hdto4_d. Butter— Fresh factory 9d, loa - Q dairy 6d to 7d, salt (in boxes) P" m Ttacxm and hams 6_d to 7d. ""• x atO^e prices, except whore otherihe v , Are fl 10se p a i,i to farmers wise sta. cu ' , f .o.b.