CORN EXCHANGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1424, 22 May 1886, Page 3

CORN EXCHANGE.

The following is the Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday, May 21 : —The nnpreoidented heavy fall of rain last Friday and Saturday will enable farmers on dry lands to push on with their ploughing for winter wheat sowing, but those with root crops will have cause to remember it for a long time to come. It is reported that hundreds of acres of low-lying potato land are literally valueless, while all descriptions have suffered more or less; many farmers having lost their entire crop, the results of which must of necessity be ruinous to a great number. Values in grain are still hardening. Farmers delivery's having almost entirely stopped, it is now chiefly ex store parcels that are being dealt with. Prime Tuscan is in strong demand for shipment at from 3s Gd to 3s 7d ; Pearl and Hunters’ are also firm at 3s 5d for former, and 3s 4d to 3s 5d for Hunters’. Chicken wheat has still a very fair enquiry, at 3s to 3s 2d, both for shipment and local requirements. Oats, owing to late advices from Sydney, have continually advanced, and short heavy feed are quickly taken up at from 2s to 2s id. Danish ana Tartars vary from la 11% to 2s, these sorts being chiefly taken for local consumption. Barley of extra prime quality is readily taken by maltsters at 3s 3d to 3 4d, and there has also been an enquiry for shipment. Inferior malting, however, cannot be placed except at very low figures, say 2s 8d to 2s lOd. Feeding sorts’,are daily wanted for pig feed, at 2s 3d to 2s Id, is being chiefly wanted in the country districts. Beans and Peas have no anxious buyers. Beans still remain at 2s 10s to 2s lid, and Prussian Blues at 3s 8d to 3s lOd. Eye-grass and Cocksfoot are entirely neglected, buyers are waiting for their spring orders. Potatoes are exceedingly difficult to quote, buyers refuse to name a price until authentic information is to hand as to the exact damage done, and growers are alike averse to oiler until their digging operations are completed. Dairy produce remains at last weeks quotations. The quotations are for delivery f.o.b. Lyttelton.