Canterbury Produce Markets.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 237, 11 April 1896, Page 2

Canterbury Produce Markets.

Owing to the holidays no business has been passing in the grain and produce markets, and quotations are without alteration. The spell of wet weather has done a good deal of damto the potato crops on low lying lands, and deliveries will be retarded for a short time. The following are current prices : — Wheat — New, 3s 2d to 3s 4d. Oats — Prime milling, 2s to 2s Id ; short feed, Is lOd to 2s ; Duns and Danish Is 9d to Is lOd. Barley — Malting, prime, 3s 6d to 4s ; medium do, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; second quality 2s 6d to 3s ; feed 2s 2d, Cape barley 2s | 3d to 2s 6d. Beans — Well-saved 23 3d. Peas — Blue Prussians, 3s 4d to • 3s Bd, white, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Flour— '■ Millers quote roller £10, stone £9 10s, sharps £4, bran £3 10s. Oatmeal — I £11 10s. Oatsheaf chaff- 42s 6d to I 47s 6d at handy country stations, according to quality. Onions — £4 at i country stations. Potatoes — Kidneys 40s, Derwents 30s to 355, both at country stations. Grass seed — Eyegrass, farmers' lots, 2s 6d to 3s 3d ; machine dressed 4s, heavy-weight 4s i 3d. Cocksfoot 3d to 3£d, town ma-chine-dressed 3d to 4£d, extra to 4£d. ' Dairy produce— Chee"se 3fd to 4d, [ loaf, 4|d to sd. Butter— Factory lOd, r dairy fd to Bd, salt 6d. Bacon and , hams, 9d. The above prices are paid 1 to farmers f.o.b. Lyttelton, except where otherwise stated.