GRAIN AND SEED REPORT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 28, 4 November 1887, Page 15

GRAIN AND SEED REPORT.

Messes. Samuel Okb and Co., Stafford street, report for the week ending November 2 as follows : —Wheat : There is little or no change to report in the market for this week, millers still being content to buy as requirements necessitate. Prices are unaltered, and may be quoted : For prime milling, 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; ordinary, 3s 6d to 3s 7d. — Oats: Since last week a re-action has taken place to the extent of about £d per bushel, while sales are not so easily effected, consequent on prices having receded slightly in Melbourne through large shipments being sent there. We quote : For good ordinary, Is B^d ; (though for extra prime Is 9d might be got) ; heavy feed, Is 7^4 to Is 8d ; dark and discoloured, Is 6d to Is 6^d, and difficult or sale. — Barley : There is still nothing to speak of offering. — Chaff: Good oaten sheaf Btill maintains its price : — namely, £2 15 3 to£2 17s 6d ; but inferior quality is very difficult of sale. — Potatoes :These still maintain the firm attitude recently reported, good Derwents being worth from 30s to 355.

Seeds-Ryegrass : The demand is now completely off ; cocksfoot also is in very little demand, with prices easier if anything. Clovers : The demand is almost over for these. Turnips : As the weather has now settled these are in good demand. We shall be pleased to send quotations to any of our friends who may desire them.

Wool. — Owing to the unusually open spring, clipping is now pretty general north of Dunedin, which is earlier by a couple of weeks than last Beason. Judging from country reports, wool will be fairly light and well-grown, the only regret being the low range of prices ruling in London,especially for merino and the lower qualities of crossbred, which may be quoted, down from 15 per cent, to 20 cent, as compared with la9t year's prices. Light, well-grown, and good-condi-tioned greasy halfbred and crossbred may be quoted at par, but all washed and scoured wools have fallen seriously. A very important point, hitherto sadly neglected by farmers, is the get-up — viz., properly skirting and docking of their fleeces before being packed for market. It is a shortsignted policy to leave bellies, saggp, or any kind of dirt on the fleeces, as good bellies and pieces will fetch as much as fleeces ; but when left on it depreciates the value o£ both. — Note : As the wool season is now on we intend giving a weekly resume of all transactions effected.

Mr. P. Mbenan, King street, reports— Wholesale pnc.'H, bags included : Oats, medium to prime, Issd to Is B^d. Whu.i' : milling, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; fowls', 2s 9d to 3s 3d. Barley : maltintr, 3- f> 1 to 4a 6d ; milling, 3a 6d ; feed, 3a. Chaff : best, £2 15 -. Straw, £2 ; hay, oat, £3; rye-grass, £3. Bran, £2 10s. Pollard, £3 10d. Potatoes : Derwents, £1 10s. Butter: fresh, 3d to 8d ; s;iU, nominal, 6d. Cheese, 3d to 4£d. Eggs, 7£d. Flour : sack-, £9 ; 50tt», £9 10s. Oatmeal, £8 ss. Roll bacon, 6d ; sules, G.JI ; hams, Bd.