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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 846, 19 January 1883, Page 2

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Com Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 19th inst. : —The grain which is about to commence will be one of the finest known for some years. _ Intelligence to hand from nearly all the agricultural districts report the yield as abundant, and the grain of good quality. The weather from seed time up to the present has been most propitious, and given a month’s favorable weather the great bulk of the harvest will have been secured. Tikes have not as yet been fairly established, nevertheless several transactions have taken place for forward delivery. Wheat: A few parcels of old have changed hands at from 4s to 4s 3d, and business has been transacted in the new crop at 3s 6d f.0.b., for Tuscan and Pearl. Oats ; A few transactions have taken place at 2S per bushel f.0.b., is lod at out stations within a radius of 40 miles. Barley : Samples of this crop have not yet made their appearance. It is reported that a few sales have taken place, but at prices not re- . vealed. It is, however, not material as such sales would form no precedent for values. In the absence of actual sales it is invidious to give approximate quotations. Grass seed : A ‘good many samples have already made their appearance, and have been offered. The market, growers’, and dealers’ values, however, are at nominal prices and not much business has resulted. Fairly well cleaned has been offered ;at from 3s to 3s 3d without leading to business, Cheese and Butter : The former is plentiful, and offering freely at from Sd to the latter is in good demand, with the market rather bare, at gd to 9>£d f.0.b., kegs 4s 6d.