CANTERBURY MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 173, 17 April 1920, Page 10

CANTERBURY MARKETS

By Telegraph-Press Association Christchurch, April 16: Oats irive every of maintaining the present firm market. The shortage offowl wheat is causing sopie business ; s best oats for poultry feetlinsi purposes, and as many poultrymen will be forced cither to reduce their runs or resort to fiats for feed., the. position is likely to liave an influence on the oats market. Up to ss. 2d. has been paid nt country stations for- oats suitable for fowl feed purposes. These oat.s represent the best grade, of which, fortunately, there is a much .bigger proportion tihis year. For good A Grade Gar-' tons for ordinary feed purposes ss. lOd. is procurable. Inquiry from the North Wand has revived. Merchants there who have sold forward.'are evidently realising that there is. little prospect (if the position easing through supplies in (he south being available to any great ■extent. There is still a good denl of oats in stack in different parts of Canterbury, the mills apparently not having entered several district?, and it is p-obnble. with the certain abundance of winter feed, that most of it will be thrashed. Shipping, or rather lack of it, is an obstacle to it being chaffed. The high northern orice notwithstanding, «"heat is being delivered fairly freely and the sample is uniformly Rood. Soma exceptional yields' are recorded in vnr--10115 parts of the province. The cocksfoot market is lifeless. Clovers and rye!»ra«s continue firm. Potatoes are in n similar market position to that which they were in hist week. The main crop is not out of the ground to any extent. Riisiness. has been in small quantities, and until the market opens on an established basis merchants are. disinclined to operate. About M 7s. Gd. is the ruling rate at country stations.