The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-02-01 00:00:00

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Rzyncvi OF THE CORN TRADE.
No improvement can be reported in the position of
the grain trade. Business as tuna remains very
modernise, being nearly of a hand-to-mouth character.
Farmers' deliveries of wheat have been small, nor are
they likely at present to increase. It Is evident that
English growers are anticipating, indeed they have
been doing so all along, the eventual establishment of
• higher range of values than that just now prevailing,
but they will chiefly depend upon the weather;
elperienced later on.
An immediate upward movement is certainly not. to
be looked for for • moment ; all such anticipation's are
at once set at rest by the large euppliee of f-ereign
produce held here, coupled with the prospect of a
further augmentation, as the large aupplies afloat to us
from all parts gra Wally come to band.
It is computed that active and prospective supplies
will be fully equal to between three and four months'
consumption ; th•refoee, until that period passes away,
no improrement in the trade can fairly be anticipated.
Transactions in all kinds of spring crops have been
limited, and the tendency of prices has been adverse.

MARK LANE, Tan D.

Wheat dull and drooping. Barley depressed. Oats
lower to sell. Maize depressed. Beans and peas
inactive and unaltered. Flour quiet and drooping.

METROPOLITAN CATTLK, THIS DAY.
About 3,600 beasts, including about 800 foreign.
Quiet at 42 6d to 6s. About 16,000 sheep. Trade
inactive, at 43 6d to is. Calves sell at 43 6d to 6s lad,
and pigs at 43 &I to Ss 6d per 8 lbs.

CHIPPENHAM MARKET, FRIDAY.—There
was a good supply of grain. Wheat, 205 10 245 per
sack ; barley, 305 to as per quarter ; oats, 265 to 325.
Beef, las to 15s per score; mutton, 9,,(d to mid per
lb. .veal, 80 to 9d; pork, 125 64 to 125 94 per
score. Ducks, as to 5 per couple; fowls as to 55.
Milk butter, Is 84 per lb.
LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, FRIDAY. There
was a very limited trade done in wheat, at a decline of
Id per cental for white descriptions. Flour was rather
easier Beans firm. Peas very steady Indian corn
in moderate request; new American. 275 94 to 285
per quarter., or 3,1 lower; old, 64 per quarter lower.
Oats flat.
LONDON CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—Wheat
Quiet, but steady. Barley quiet. Oats dull and weak.
Maize drooping. Beans and peas inactive. Flour
depressed. Arrivals :—English: Wheat, 640 qrs. ;
barley, 2, i6o ors. ; malt, 1,730 qrs. Foreign : Wheat,
24160 qrs. ; Oats, 20,030 qrs; Maize. 11,1101 rs. ;
Flour. 3,940 sacks, 10.640 barrels. Close.—Wheat
closed heavily, at Monday's prices. Barley neglected.
Vety little doing in oats, except the best corn. Maize
flat, and about Is lower. Beans and peas inactive.
Flour dull.
LONDON COAL MARKET, SATURDAY.—Best
house coals steady; other kinds dull. Wallsend,
19$ 6d to 231. Ships RI market, 32 ; sold, 23 ; unsold,
9 ' • at Sea 20.
LONDON PROVISION MARKET, FRIDAY.—
Butter: The market continues firm for best descrip-
tions of foreign. Friesland, 1505 to 154.5; Canadian
steady. Irish neglected. Bacon: Light to moderate
weights. 705 to 775 ; heavy and oversize, 68s to 741.
Hams quiet and unaltered. Lard a slow sale Cheese
Good to fine American, 56s to 635.
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAY.
—Sugar in very fair demand, at firm rates. Rum
quiet, but steady, Coflee firm. Rice quiet. Nitrate
of soda, its aid to its 94 per cwt. on the spot.
Petroleum in buoer's favour. Lard dull, and rather
lower. Olive oil quiet ; linseed oil, 255 to 25s ifid per
cwt. ; cotton seed oil, 28s per cwt ; rape oil without
change. Tallow very quiet. Palm oil firm. Resin
steady. Ashes, 265 9d to 271 per cwt. for pots.
LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, FRIDAY.—
Sugar: The market was extremely dull both for raw
and refined sorts Crystallised Demerar at the auction
sold fully is under last Friday's quotations. Other
descriptions are also a shade easier on the week.
Coffee very steady ; more competition at the auction,
especially for plantation Ceylon. which realised full
pnces. Tea: 480 packages Indian sold. All good
teas in request ; common sorts remain dull. China
dull. Rice without improvement. Pepper very dull.
Cotton market quiut, jute flat. Tallow: New about

493 spot.
READING CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—
There was a short supply at the market to-day, with
a slow sale, at about last week's prices.

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GLOUCESTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.
—There was a good supply of English wheat at to-
day's market, and prices were generally is per qr.
lower. Foreign in retail inquiry only, at barely late
rates, Grinding barley easier. Maize is to 21
cheaper. Oats without change in value.
BATH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—To-day's
market was poorly supplied with wheat, mostly in
poor condition ; trade very slow, at barely last week's
prices. Barley slow, at late rates. Beans gild peas
firm Flour quiet, at late rates. Wheat, dry red, aas
to 481 per 4961 b, white, 485 to 565; flour, seconds,
36s to 37s ; fine. 41s ; bread, 61c1 per 41b loaf
WARMINSTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.
—There was a large supply and attendance ; trade
was stagnant. Wheat declined is to as per quartet.
Best barley maintained its value but inferior lots were
quite a drug on the market. Beans, peas, &c without
Change. Wheit, 45, to 55c; barly, 28s to 45s ; oats,
275 to 365; beans, 24s to 305 ; peas, 23s to as ; rye,
I6s to 205 ; vetches, its to 13s; flour, fine, acts to
425; best seconds, 325 to 365 per sack; bread, Is per
Sib.
• DORCHESTER MARKETS, SATURDAY.—At
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the corn exchange to-day the supply of wheat was but
moderate, and parcels being in damp condiclion, were
unsaleable. A large supply of barley, the best mak-
ing late prices. Last week's official return give the
sale as 798 qrs, realising4l,39B tas 6d, or an average
of 35s ad
perimperial qr. Low quality barley again
cheaper to-day. —At the fortnightly stock market,
held at Dorchester, to-day. there was a moderately
large supply, and a tolerably good trade was done.
Fat beef realised from las to Iss per score. Barreners
very dear—from £l2 to £26 ss each. Cows and
calves, Lls to £24 each. Fat ewes, 48s to Os each;
fat wethers Os to 67s ; store CVMS; 485 ; store
wethers, 525.—At the Wimborne Minster fortnightly
market about 70 head'of stock and 600 sheep changed
hands, cows and calves selling at Lis to Las tos
each; fat beef, 143 to iss per score; ewe mutton,
Bid to gid per lb; and whether mutton, gd to iod
per lb.
CORK BUTTER MARKET, SATtnumv.
Ordinary firsts, —s; seconds, tsos ; thirds, 5305 ;
fourths, Sts; fifths, 545; sixths, —s. Mild cured,
firsts, —s ; seconds, —s; thirds, —s. 208 firkins in
market.