CORN EXCHANGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1769, 17 February 1888, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE.

The following is the Corn Rxohange re* port for th'i week endjn^ Frjday, Feoruary 17th, 1888: - Tho splendid weather during the past few week a has allowed harvest op rations to be carried on wftb great rapidity, and with a continuance for a week or bo longer the majority of tho crops will have boeu safely gat bo rod. The Home market rotnaian ateudy, bat the high frei»<hta demanded retards bus neas m old whettd, of vyhipk c . re j a * consider. ble quantity of Tuscan o» hn'nd. 'Auntralja htm taken n fair quantity of outß from our old ajbockg, and is aeo enquiriug for barley, but cio orders are expected for our wheat. The new grain « fferiog compares very favor ably with that of pas f so.Bona, especially vfh&Mf .Oatß and barley a>e both off ring freely, and 7 fche" noarJk|.i« for i hot e cereal • may f. irly be said to have' opoood pt tho pr ces iudi "uted bo ov ' ' '■'"' WHBA'i—Prirae p» arl has boon sold at 3a 2il to 3* 3d, and i« ia a email oompofls Hunter* aud Tuscan are s ow of sU« at 3s. '-econd quality fa bo ng tak-n at 2s 9J for o^cken feed, and bro(-©» wheat, is flO!»rce, is worth 2b 6d ° Kew wheV. is not yet quotable m qualifies, but small pales have taken place at £» Gd to 2a 7d at country s:atioue equpl^o 2a Wd f o b t ATS—^aleß are being nade at £s @d to la 7d for ehort feed (n •»), milling being wo r th Id extjM. Old ©afc< hay • beon largely ahppan to Australia during the past lortoight, wr-ich hei left the maikot cojnp rutively bare. Babely. — Numerous prime malting samples have been placed at 4s to 4* 3^ to Lbriatchurch multsters, and values seem Bym at the*© ruteß, Shippers, however, v & hol'iingbaolf. GitAS» Sbbd— B-vegrflßa finds j?»ydr(i ftfc 2s to 2d 4d for good farmers' parsg!e and uioch'ue dreased m quoted at 2o 10ii to Ss. Cocksfoot sampl«» ara not coming forward very freelj, and buyers havo given as high as 3^d for prraa heavy bo d for prompt del»ye).*y. The yalue for forward dtthv. ry, howovoj?, baouot quoted at ovfci3sd io34d.' •'• ? i aiky Pkoduoic i« without alteration. Ihe above quotations ore tboie paid to farmt-ra a»d (formed i.Q.b., tywltoo, PBfk| #^ '