POTATO MARKET QUIET

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 7

POTATO MARKET QUIET

-Presa Assoclation.)

Small Seeds Trade DuII

(By Telegraph-

CHRISTCHURCH, Last Night. .The potato markot rcmains entirely Inactive, but an announcement about etocks has had tho effect of depressiug nominal quotations still further. The value is nominally £5 10s on trucks, but it is very doubtful if anything but .the barest minimum of business could be done even at this figure. There are no tiuyers in the market, and orders from outside have ceased entirely. A number of farmers who still have part of their crops have been anxious Jo quit, but Duyers are very difiieult to find. There has been rather a better domand for chaff, but the price has not responded and remains about £3 17s 6d to £4 on trucks. Oats are vory dull, but they still meet with a small enquiry. The retail trade in small seeds remams small still, but there is an iacreased interest in perennial ryegrass, particularly for certified seed, stocks of seedi are not large in any variety. Prcnnial rye is very ahort, particularly certified lines, but Italian and Western Wolths1 aro plcntiful. Cowgttiss is in fair supply and stocks of white clovers ara also rensonable. Good cooksfoot is short. There is a lot of ligktweight seed about, for which it is difiieult tq find a market. Montgomeryskire rcd clover is practically unobtainable as Ihe crop was a failure.