The Wheat market.
«- (Per Press Association). Melbourne, Sept 18. The millers state their returns this year prove that it takes 52 to 53 bushels of wheat to make a ton of flour, as against 49 to 50 in the previous year when tbe quality of wheat was good. Taking an average of three bushels additional per ton of flour, it will require 580,000 bushels more to make the same qnantity of flour as was produced in the Colony last year, and to that extent the quantity available for export will be reduced. Sydney, September 18. At a meeting of farmers of the Junce district, to adopt means to raise the price of wheat by holding it against the buying ring, the chairman stated that a New Zealand Company was prepared to advance two thirds of the price of all wheat stored.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 70, 19 September 1895, Page 2
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141The Wheat market. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 70, 19 September 1895, Page 2
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