GRAIN AND SEED REPORT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 21, 16 September 1887, Page 15

GRAIN AND SEED REPORT.

Messrs. Samuel Orr and Co., Stafford street, report for the week ending September 13 as follows : — Wheat : The market for this cereal shows no change whatever, millers still evincing no desire to buy more than they actually require for present purposes. Prices in consequence are unaltered. We quote : For extra prime milling, up to 4s 2d ; good, 4s to 4s Id ; ordinary, 3s lOd to 3s lid ; and fowls' feed, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. — Oats : There has been a slight demand for this product during the last week, but advices from the other side are still discouiaging, showing a decline in pices, which no doubt will tend to still fuither depreciate values here. We quote: Prime bright heavy milling from Is 8d to Is B£d ; good heavy teed, Is 7£d ; ordinary, Is 71 ; and discoloured Is 6d to Is 6£d. — Barley : There is hardly any offering, prices being purely nomiual, viz. : —Malting 4s to 4s Id ; milling and feed, 3s 6d.— Chaff : There is no improvement to report in this, the market being flooded with inferior and discoloured quality. — Seeds : Ryegrass : This seed is in good demand at late quotations, Poverty Bay and old pasture seed being principally inquired for. Cocksfoot is in very large demand ; and stocks being comparatively low, prices will no doubt advance. Clovers are also in good demand, prices being unchanged.

Albert Babns and M. Hog an and Co., Wanganui, report :— At our usual monthly sale, held on Saturday, the 27th ult., we had a very fair attendance, and the bidding for each lot submitted was sufficiently brisk to secure satisfactory prices to vendors. Butchers* skins, good averages, showed a steady advance ; settlers' skins maintaining former quotations. For hides and tallow there is at present very little inquiry, unless they are obtained at a low figure. The following are the prices realised : — Wool : In bags, 5d to 6d per lb ; pieces, 3d per lb.— Sheepskins : Settlers' long wool, 3d,B£d, 3£d, 3jd, 4d, 4^d, Ud, 4fd lb ; butchers' 2s Cd, 3s 3d, 3s 3d, 3s lid, 4s Id, 4a 3d : settlers' pelts, Is to Is 5d. — Hides : 2d to 2£d ptr lb ; bulls' and faulty, Id to lg-d. — Tallow : In casks, 12s 6s to 15s per cwt. — Produce : Potatoes (seed), 6s to 6s 3d per bag ; carrots, Is 6d to Is 9d per bag ; bran, 3s 6d per bag ; pollard, £5 per ton ; cheese, 4d per lb ; salt batter, 3d.

Me. F, Meenan, King street, reports— Wholesale prices, bags inc'uded : Oats, medium to prime, Is <id to Is 9d. Wheat: milling, 3s 9d to 4s 3d ; fowls', 3s 3d to 3s Bd. Bailey: malting, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; milling, 3< 6d ; feed, 3s. Lh^ff : best, £2 153; straw chaff, dull ot bale, nominal. Straw, £2 ; hay, new oat, £3 ; rye-grass (now), £3. Bran, £3. Pollrird, £4. Pouioes : kidneys, £'& ; Deiweuts, iil sa. Buttei : tresh, (id to lOtl ; salt, no inual, (id. Cheese, 3d lo SJ. Kpgs, 7d. Flour: sacks, £10; 501 b, £10 10^. Oamtal, £8 ss. lioll bacon, 6^d ; sides, 6jd ; hams, 9d.