CORN EXCHANGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1332, 3 September 1886, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE.

Tho following is tho Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday, 3rd September : The weather continues unfavorable for farm work, and the season is exceptionally backward as regards sowing and planting. Tho business transactions for the month have been chietly confined to store lines, country deliveries being few and far between. Wheat has bad a brisk business, and last week’s prices are firmly maintained.

Tuscan and Pearl are most scarce at 4s 4d

the latter being eagerly taken for local mi,ling. Hunter’s has been placed in large parcels at 4? 3d ,* second quality ranges from 3s lid to 4s 2d, and chickwheat at 3a 7d to 3s lOd.

Oats continue to be offered at prices more favorable to buyers, and last week’s quotations show no improvement. Milling are not plentiful at 2s 5d ; short feed are dull at 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; and long and inferior kinds at 2s Id to 2s 2d.

Barley. —Very little prime barley is in the market. Second quality is hard to quit at over 2s 8d to 2s i)J, while feed descriptions readily command 2s 5d 10 2s 6d.

Beans and Peas are quiet, with only a local and seed enquiry. .Prices are unaltered.

Grass Seed. —Owing to the backwardness of the (sowing season, business iu ryegrass baa been of a very limited character. Machine-dressed is nominally os 3d to 5s Ud ; fanners’ parcels are dull at 3s 24 to is 3d. Cocksfoot, bright heavy clean seed, has orders at 4ld. Polatoes have had more enquiries. Several fair-sized parcels have changed hands daring the week at 42a 6d at Country stations, and buyers are prepared to still purchase at this price where the quality is undeniable. Dairy Produce has had an improved tone in Sydney, but stocks held here are too heavy to allow of any rise to take place in this market. Butter is quoted at lOd, Cheese has a fair trade at 5d to 64d. The above prices are given for delivery f.o.b. Lyttelton, except potatoes, which are at country stations.