GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14972, 20 May 1914, Page 11

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

( B *'-OrR COM3TEBCIAL EDITOR.)

rrn .'.- . Tuesday Evening. lucre is nothing fresh-to report in connexion with the wheat market, which « hrm, but with little business doing.. lnere is a development in tho oats market which is hardly likely to have any appreciable effect upon local prices, bub will relieve to some extent the stocks-now held by merchants. This is the opening of an export trade to West of England ports. The Westmeath will take away some thousands of saciis, and it it. hoped to get away a larger quantity next month. The freight by this month's boat is 27s <5d per ton, and for next month it will be 255. It is. not considered that there will be any profit at present prices in an export' trade to the United Kingdom, but it will form an, outlet for stocks. New Zealand oats are quoted at 2s Gd per bushel in London, ko that when all cha-rges are paid they will net considerably le.ss than 2s per bushel. Canadian and Argentine oats are quoted at much lower prices than New Zealand grown. The. potato market is quiet, and buyers are not inclined to do business lit £3 per ton at country stations, the Auckland marker being heavily supplied ait the present time. ■ Cowgrass. .seed has declined in price in consequence of the low quotations that are being received from London. i The undermentioned are the prices paid to farmers at country stations, free of commission, sacks extra, excepting where otherwise stated : — "Wheat—Tuscan. 3s 7d to 3s 3d; Hunter's, 3s Sd to 3s 0d: Pearl. 3s Qd t6 3s 10d; fowl wheat. 3s 4d to 3s f>l. Oats—Algerian, Is 7d to Is 8d : Danish/ Is 6d; Dims. Is 7d to Is 8d; Gartons, Iβ 6d to ls.Sd. Barley—Prime malting (nominal); medium and inferior. 2s 6d to 3s. Ryegrasses 6d to 2s 9d for best samples: Is 6d to Is 8d for inferior. • Cocksfoot—Bright nnd heavy samples, up to 4id; average. 3d to 3id. . White Clover—9d to 10d.

Red Clover-r"d to 7Jd. ■ Flour—£lo per 1001b bags, £10 ia<; 501b bags, £10 los; 251b bags, £11. Bran —£4 5s pei ton, local. Pollard—£6 per ton. Oatmeal —£12 per ton. Oatsheaf Chaff—£2 os for good samples. Onions—£3 los to £4.

Potatoes —£3. ' -~ Peas—Partridge. 3s 9d to 4s; Blue Imperial (nominal), 3s 6d; Blue Prussians (nominal), 3s.