GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 16 March 1927, Page 5

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Messrs Dalgety and Co./Ltd (Dunedin), report as follows: — Oats — The market remains unchanged with little business passing. Samples are now arriving more freely, but the demand is verv dull. Locai merchants cannot do business with the North Island and therefore are not offering for farmers' lines. With so poor a demand in existence it is difficult to effect saies even at the low prices in vogue. A Gartons 2s 2d; B Gartons & per bushel, on trucks, country stations. Wheat — Millers are showing no inclination to operate- except at lower prices. Reports from Canterhury show that Tuscan can be bought at 5s ld per bushel, on trucks, which is equivalent to 5s 6d to 5s 7d per bushel landed here. Farmers in this district, however, are not inclined to accept this figure and in the main are holding for better offers. Fowl wheat is in plentiful supply, lines from Canterhury as well as a few from this district keeping the market well supplied. Potatoes — The quantity coming forward has decreased, good tubers being scarce in the city. Blight is noticeable in a number of lines coming forward. Good-.tables. free from blight are realisingv.£4 per ton, ex truck. sacks in. as i Chaff — The quantity|i^Eoming to [ hand is small, but is sufficient to fill all requirements. TheVdemand is I purely local with fee'ders buying j sparingly. Prime lines- only are | meeting with a sale, other grades being very difficult to, quit., Prime oaten sheaf, £4 5s ; inferior' £3 per ton, sacks extra. \