WINTER WHEAT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2475, 22 May 1888, Page 2

WINTER WHEAT.

TO TIIE ET>ITOE, Sir, —Referring to your leading articles of Thursday and Saturday, as an ounce of fact is worth a pound of theory, will you kindly inform me what is the difference in price at the present time between winter and spring wheat, I mean the prices being actually paid in Auckland and Waikato.—Yours, &c., OI.D PRACTICAL.

TAs there are no grain merchants in Auckland who publish a weekly report, we are unable to give the information, but as the Auckland millers are setting supplied from the South at from 2s lid to 3s Id, they probably have only been giving the same price for Auckland-grown winter wheat as for White Tuscan. The highest price we have heard of being obtained for Waikato-prown White Tuscan is 3s Id. In Canterbury provincial district the spring wheat this seasen is in slightly higher demand than winter-grown wheat, owing to very little spring Tuscan having been grown this year, but we do not know what, if any, is the difference ill price. •Kaye and Carter's latest price list received yesterday, quotes: Velvet Pearl and Tuscan at all one price, 2s DM, and Hunter's White at 2s Sd. The question with the Waikato farmer is not which wheat, winter or spring Tuscan, will fetch the better price per bushel, but which will find the readiest sale, or a sale at all. The fact that Auckland millers in the mixture of wheats they grind use only one-sixth or one-seventh of spring Tuscan is that which our correspondent and other Waikato farmers need to consider, as in growing the spring wheat they put a limit on their own local market, the winter wheat having to be imported from the South. —Ed. W. T. J