GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2049, 17 September 1880, Page 3

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

A fair amount of business has been transacted during the week, and from this forward a slight revival may be looked for, as spring threshing has commenced. Good sound parcels of milling wheat are freely taken up at 4s Id to 4s 2d, but for anything the slightest faulty, a large reduction on above rates has to be accepted. A good business is still doing in flour, at dßi.l for town brands. It is to note that millers have had very few complaints about quality this season. Heavy descriptions of oats are still wanted, and sell readily at Is 7d, but feed only find buyers at Is 2d to Is 3d, there being but little disposition on the part of buyers to lay in stocks of this grade. Malting barley is still readily saleable at up to 3s 6d for choice lots, and a moderate business has been done in inferior to medium at from Is 6d to 2s _6d. Potatoes have been offering freely, but prices are so irregularly quoted, that it is quite impossible to give a reliable figure at which business could bo done. Butter is purely nominal. A rather better business was done in cheese at 4d Curers have reduced the price of bams and bacon Id per lb, present price being : —Bacon, bare, 8d; hams and bacon, bare, B£d; and hams, bare, with an extra halfpenny per lb if put in cloth.