PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 9 July 1903, Page 13

PRODUCE.

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET. Invercargill prices current : — Wholesale — Butter (farm), 8d ; butter (factory), bulk, 9id ; pats, 9|d cash, lOd booked Eggs Is 3d per dozen. Cheese (factory), 6±d. Hams, 9d. Potatoes, £3 10s per ton (bags weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chafl, £3 per ton. Flour, £10 to £11. Oatmeal, £10 10s to £11. Bran, £4 10s. Pollard, £6 10s. Retail — Fresh Butter, lOd. Butter (factory), pats, Is. Eggs, is 6d per dozen. Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 5s per cwt. Flour : 200rb. 22s ; 501 b, 6s 3d. Oatmeal : 501 b, 6s 6d ; 251 b, 3s 6d. Pollard, 10s per bag. Bran, 5s 6d. Chaff, 2s.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin reports :—Wholesale prices only— Oats: Milling, Is 9£d to Is 10d; feed, Is 6d to Is 9£d. Wheat : Milling, 3s 7d to 4s Id ; fowls' wheat, 3s to 3s sd. Potatoes : Derwents, £4 ; kidneys, £2 10s to £3 10s. Chaff : £3 to £3 12s 6d. Straw : Pressed wheat, 30s ; oaten, 35s ; loose, £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; 50tb, £10 15s; 251 b, £11. Oatmeal: 25tt>, £10. Pollard, £6. Bran, £4. Butter : Dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : Factory, 6d ; dairy, s£d. Eggs, Is 9d. Onions • Melbourne, £5 ; Christchurch, £4.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. (Limited) report : We held our weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Monday, when we submitted a fairly large catalogue to a full attendance of buyers. Bidding for most of the lines on offer was fairly good up to late values. Chaff, however, was rather more plentiful, and did not elicit the same competition. Values ruled as under :—: —

Oats. — Prime milling and seed lines have fair inquiry, but for feed quality the demand is limited, and nothing like extensive sales can be made. Shippei's have little difficulty in supplying their orders, which are not heavy, at quotations'. Their inquiries are confined almost entirely to good, bright feed, inferior sorts being neglected. Quotations : Choice seed lines, 2s to 2s 3d ; prime milling, Is 9d to Is 10. id ; good to best feed, Is 8d to Is 84 d ; inferior and medium, Is 5d to Is 7d per bushel (sacks extia).

Vtheat — r lheie is little alteration to rej ort in any respect. Prime to choice milling soils continue to find buyers at quotations, while milling qualities are neglected, except as foul wheat, for which a i'air demand exists Quotations : Prime nulling, 4s to 4s 2d ; medium, 3s 4d to 3s 9d ; whole fowl wheat, 3s Id to 3s 3d ; damaged and broken, 2s 6d to 3s per bushel (sacks extia).

Potatoes — The market continues to be moderately supplied, and all well-conditioned lines have ready sale The supply of prime Oamaru JJerwents is especially short, and for these, as well as for good seed kidneys, there is strong inquiry. Quotations Prime Derwents, £4 to £4 5.s , medium, £3 "H's to £3 15s , kidneys and other sorts, £3 10s to £4 10s per ton (bags in).

Chaff — ITea^^y supplies continue to arrive, and, with increased stocks. late values cannot be maintained Prime quality is still in most demand, and has not suffered i*o the same extent as medium sorts, which are difficult to quit Quotations : Best oaten sheaf, £3 to £3 7s 6d ; extra choice, £3 10s ; medium to good, £2 10s to £3 ; inferior and light, £1 15s to £2 5s per ton (bags extra).

Turnips. — We quote best swedes, 14s to 15s per ton (loose, ex truck).

Hay. — Stocks have worked off to some extent, but ■there is still fair supplies on hand. Quotations Best clover and rye grass, £3 to £3 5s ; medium, £2 10s to £2 15s per ton

Straw — Market well sltip7>lied. Oaten, 27s 6d to 30s; wheat, 25s to 27s 6d per ten.

Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and Co. report as follows : Wheat — Best milling samples and fowl wheat are moving off slowly and other descriptions are very difficult to place Prime milling, to 4s 2d ; medium, 3s 3d to 3s 9d : best whole iowl wheat, 3s to 3s 2d ; bioken and inferior, 2s 9d to 3s. Oats. — Prices are beyond what buyers care to Rive, and consequently the business passing is small Best seed samples are w orth 2s to 2s 3d ; prime milling, Is 9d to Is l<)£d ; good to best feed. Is 7£d to Is B£d ; medium and inferior, Is fid to Is 7d Barley. — Nothing doing. Prime malting is nominally worth 3s 6<l to 3s lOd ; milling and medium, 3s to 3s 4d ; feed, 2s 9d to 2s lid. Potatoes — Best Derwents, to £4 ; kidneys and other sorts, £3 to £3 10s. Chaff —Best oaten sheaf. £3 5s to £3 12s 6d ; medium to good, £2 10s to £3. Turnips. — Best swedes, loose, 13s per ton. Straw —Best, 30s to 32s 6d. Hay.— Best, £3 to £3 ss.