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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11511, 18 February 1903, Page 9

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GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS. (BT OT3B OOMMEBCIAI, XDITOB.) Tuesday Evening. A few samples of new wheat have been on offer since our last report, but only one small lot has changed hands, the price being 4s 2d at a country station. Pollard has been raised to £7 per ton. Large quantities of oats are "now being submitted, but the demand is very slack, especially for long feed. There is an absence of speculation, as the outside markets are at present uncertain. There are no alterations in prices, but sales are somewhat difficult to effect at quotations. The presence of a Queensland buyer for barley has caused growers to ask outside prices, but it is reported that he has not yet done any business, and 3s 4d is the iiighest figure that local buyers have given. Our Southland correspondent writes that the tear has been expressed for some tune past that the oats crop would ripen shorj, in the straw, but now everything promises well under the fine weather that is being experienced. The grass seed harvest is in full swing, and the crop is excellent. The exports of grain during the week were only small. The following are the current prices paid to farmers, free of commission, except where otherwise specified: — Wheat (old) (nominal)— Hunter's, Tuscan, and Pearl, 4s 7d to 4s "9d, at country stations ; new Pearl wheat, 4s at country stations. Oats (new) —Milling; 2s, short- feed ls lOd to ls lid. DuntJ ls 81 to ls 9d, Danish.ls 8d to ls 9d, at coun 1 ry stations, for early delivery. Barley—Prime malting 3s 3d to 3s 4d, Cape 2s 6d, at com try stations. Flour (millers' quo taiiona)—Roller, £12 per ton. Pollard—£7. Bran—£6. I * Oatmeal-H£l4 10s! Ryegrass—Well dressed farmers' parcels 2s and 2s 6d, Italian ryegrass 3s to 3s 3d, cocksfoot 3d to 3Jd per lb, delivered. Dairy Produce—Cheese, factory, 5d to 6d, dairy sd; butter, factory, local, 10id; North island, lid. f.0.b.. Wellington; farmers' separator. 9d; dairy, 8d to 9d for prime; salt (in boxes), 7d to 8d; hams and bacon, 9d to lOd; factory hams and bacon, id higher,, f.o.b.