GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11493, 28 January 1903, Page 9

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS

(BY OUB COMKKKCIAL tDITOH.) Tuesday Evening. Fanners are having a very anxious time for the Jiaivest. Alter ii biief tmd pi*>nusiug spell of line weather a change again occurred. culniinaLny in v southerly gale. and ;v violent hailstorm, which did considerable damage to the Heavy crops from Eilesinere along tbe foot of tiie l'oit Hills l'j Christ-church. The damage wus the more serious from the fact that lieuviy nil the troys are still standing, so little yet being ready for the binder. There is nothing freak to report in connection with tins grain market, no wheat Laving changed hands, and no irt-sh sales of new oats are reported, but Is 10d for long feed and 2s iot short feed is offered at country stations lor delivery next month. Our Southland correspondent writes last week:—There were' shipped to Sydney 5700 sacks of oa-te, to Melbourne 2SOO sucks, and to northern ports 2400 bucks. A considerable quantity of ryt grass seed hoe been on offer, but only a lew lints have changed hands, and the market i> barely established yet. A circular from a German firm, da-ted Hamburg, December 12th last, received by Messrs Mercer and Mitchell, Dunedii*. slates that the tendency for white clover i;i to remain veiy linn, the crop being a medium vw. It is expected that a large business -will be done with Australasia, as the crops in England and America are known to be total failures. The out-turn ot red clover in all the chief growing; districts of Europe is extremely -unsatisfactory, the -wet weather that prevailed for months having done serious barm. There were no old stocks left, and the new crop being deficient in both quality and quantity, prices had risen, and were expected to gp higher at the beginning of the consuming season. There has been a medium crop of lucerne in Europe, and America complains of an unsatisfactory yield 1 . The following are the current prices paid to farmers, free of commission, except where otherwise specified: — Wheat (nominal) —Hunter's, Tuscan and Pearl, 5n to 5s 3d, at country stations. Oats (new)— Long feed Is 10d, short feed 2s, at country stations, for February delivery. Barky (nominal))— Peed 3e to 3s Id, at country stations. Flour (millers' quotations) —Boiler, h\l per. ton. Pollard—£6 10b, Bran—£6. Oatmeal—£l4 10s. Ryegrass— Well dressed farmew' parcels, 2s to 2s 3d, delivered. Dairy Produce—Oheese, factory, Sd to 6d,-dairy sd; butter factory, local, 10id; North Island, lid, f.0.b., Wellington; farmers' separator, 9d; dairy,'Bd to 9d for prime; salt (in fooaes), 7d to 8d; hams and bacon, 9d to 10d; factory hams and bacon, id higher, f.o.b.