PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5, 1 February 1906, Page 13

PRODUCE.

Invercargill Prices Current. — Wholesale— Butter (farm), 6d ; separator, 7d. Butter (factory), pats, Is O^d. Eggs, Is per dozen. Cheese, Gd. Hams, 9d. Barley, 2s to 2s tid. Chafi, £3 5s per ton. Flour, £10 to £11. Oatmeal, £11 10s to £12. Bran, £4. Pollard, £5 10s. Potatoes, j£'7. Retail — Farm butter, 8d ; separator, 9d. Butter (factory), pats, Is 2d. dices 'Bd. Eggs, Is 3d per dazen. Bacon, 9d. Hams, lOd. Flour : 20011), 22s ; 501 b, Gs ; 251 b, 3s 3d. Oatmeal : 501 b, 7s ; 251 b3s Gd. Pollard, 9s Gd per bag. Bran, ss. Chaff, 2s. Potatoes, 9s per cwt. >' Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co. report :— Oats. — Business continues very quiet, and quotations are as follows : Prime milling, 2s OAd to 2s Id ; good to best feed, Is lid to 2s O-Jd ; medium to good, Is JUd to Is lid per bushel. Wheat.— Business in this cereal is also limited, quo--tations being as follows : Prime milling, 3s 5d to 3s Gd ; medium, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; broken and damaged, 2s 10 to 3s Id. Potatoes. — Supplies are now more plentiful, and prices have eased somewhat. Quotations : Best, £8 to £9 ; others, £5 to £6 10s. Chaff. — The market is well supplied, and business is confined to prime lines. Quotations : Primce oaten sheaf, £3 17s Gd fo £4 ; medium to good, £3 10s to £3 15s , light and inferior, £3 to £3 ss. Messrs, Nimmo and Blair report as follows :—: — Wheat.— There is very little business doing in milling wheat ; what few sales are going through are confined to prime samples. Fowl wheat is scarce and in firm demand. We quote : Prime milling, 3s Aid to 3s Gd; medium, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; broken, 2s lOd to 3s Id per bushel (sacks extra). Oats.— The demand is quiet. Prime milling, 2s to 2s Id ; good to best feed, Is lid to 2s per bushel (sacks extra). Chaff. — Numerous consignments continue to come forward. Buyers are purchasing only the best, which means that inferior quality is being taken into store or sold at a low figure. We quote : Prime oaten sheaf, from £3 17s Gd to £4 ; medium to good, £3 10s to £3 15s per ton (sacks extra). Potatoes. — For freshly dug and good conditioned Oamarus there is a steady demand. For other than those answering to the above description there is a poor sale. We qiuote : Oamarus, from £8 to £9 ; infeiior, £6 to £7 10s per ton. Eggs. — In very firm demand at Is 2d per dozen. Pigs.— Baconers, 3id per lb ; heavy weights, 2d to 2£d ; porkers, 3fd. Butter.— Dairy, 7d to ; separator, 8d to 9d ; milled, 8d to ,9d per lb. Honey.— 3|d to 4d per lb. Poultry.— Fair demand. Hens, 2s Gd to 2s 9d ; roosters, 3s Gd to 4s Gd ; ducks, 3s to 4s 6d per pair ; turkeys, hens, 5d per lb ; gobblers, 7di(live weight). Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. (Limited^ report :— We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday. There was a good attendance of local buyers, but competition was not keen, and 6nly part of the catalogue was quitted at auction, the balance being held over for private sale. Prices ruled as under :—: — Oats.— There is practically no demand for export, and in consequence most consignments coming forward here are being quitted in smaller lots for local consumption at prices a shade under late quotations. We quote : Prime milling, 2s o£d to 2s Id ; good to best

feed, Is lid to 2s o£d ; medium to good, Is 9£d to Is lid per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat.— ln milling lines, a small local business is beting done, chiefly in good to prime samples. Medium quality is not so strongly favored, but is saleable at quotations. Fowl wheat is offering very sparingly, and is readily taken for local use at prices beyond shippers' limits. We quote : Prime milling, 3s 5d to ,3s Gd ; medium, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; broken and damaged, 2s lOd to 3s Id per bushel (sacks extra). Barley. — A few lines of prime malting have changed hands at 3s 3d to 3s Gd per bushel. Medium quality is not inquired for, but feed is not plentiful, and is in fair demand. We quote : Prime mailing, 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; medium do and milling, 2s lOd to 3s ; feed, 2s 5d to 2s 8d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes. — The quantity arriving from outside markets has had a depressing 'effect upon values. Best freshly-dug lots are 1 selling here to-day at £8 to £9, while imported kidneys and northern consignments of Beauty of Hebron and other sorts find little favor and few buyers at £5 to £6 10s per ton sacks in). Chaff. —Buyers have numerous consignments to choose from, but are ■ Only disposed to purchase prime lots. Prime oaten sheaf is saleable at £3 17s Gd to £4, but other qualities are diflicult to place at, for medium to good, £3 10s to £3 15s ; light and interior, £3 to £3 5s per ton (bags- extra). Pressed Straw. — We quote : Oaten, 40s to 45s wheaten, 30s to 32s Gd per ton.