The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-04-04 00:00:00

THIS Ders MARKETS.

REVIEW OITRE— CORN TRADE.
The readiness of the wheat trade has been with &M-
-ousy supported, Indeed even the beat samples of wheat
have barely maintained late *tea The fact proves that
the establishment of any advance, will be by no means
easy, notwithstanding the contraction of our stock and
the improbability of other immediate replenishments.
Millers persistently follow their band, so with policy
operatione de not
_generally go beyond the limits of actual
requirements. Ind dealers in graia foe arrival are few and
unimportant.
Nevertheless no sooner does the weather become milder
than there are indications that wing hsa at length
thoroughly set in than weakness ran, supervenes, not
only the upward movement check but had there bees
a disposition to force sales lower must have been
submitted to. The season ham so far been most disap-
pointing to bolder' of wheat All anticipations of changed
prices have been falsified by results, there certainly
was at one time a Moons assumption founded on what
mewed to be • firm basis that quotations would rule much
higher than they do at present; but all calculations have
proved incorrect
Spring corn quiet

MARK-LANE, Tuts DAY.
Wheat closed quietly at about Late rates. Barley
very quiet. Oats steady and main hardening. Beans
and peas dull. Flour unaltered.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE, This DAV.
Nearly 3,000 beasts, including over 1,000 foreign.
Trade Kat, at as 6d to ss 6d. About 2,200 sheep.
Trade dull at as 6d to Ss gd. Lambs sold at 8s per
head. Calves,ms to 6s 6d. Pigs. 44 ad to Ss ad per
gibs. At Deptford there were about 150 beasts and
about 1,900 p.

SATURDAY'S MARKETS.
READING CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—
Quietness preys-led the market to-day, trade being
dull, at previous currencies.
BATH CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—The
supply of English wheat at our market to-day was
small. Trade was quiet, at about late rates. The
condition of the samples WIII good. Feeding stuff a
slow sale, at last week's prices. Flour dull.
GLOUCESTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.
—At to-day's market there was a good supply of
English wheat, and the turn favouped buyers; foreign
very slow, at nominally previous rates. Grinding
bar!ey and maize unaltered. Oats of secondary
quality rather :tearer ; bast without ("henget in value.
WARMINSTER CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.
—At our market to.day there was a large supply and
a good attendance, but trade was very flat for both
wheat and barley, at last week's prices. Wheat, 345
to 541; barley, 28s to 443; oats, 26s to 35a; beans,
245 to 275 • peas, 206 t 0305; flour, 56$ to 43e per
sack; bread, ts per lb.
TAUNTON CORN MARKET, SATURDAY.—
There was a thin attendance, and the market was very
inactive. English wheat met a slow sale at is
decline, and foreign sold 6d lower. Barley of best
quality for malting was in good demand at is more
money, but grinding weak and rather lower. Maize
quiet and unaltered. Beans, peas, and cats quiet.
Flour 345 per sack.
DORCHESTER MARKETS, SATURDAY. —At
the corn exchange to-day there was but a small supply
of wheat, scarcely enough for local demands ; late
prices prevailed, quotations ranging from 44s to 48s
per imperial quarter. The last official returns give
the average of 455 ail& The barley season nearly
over; late rates—from 325 to 37$ per. imperial qr.—
prevailed. The last official returns &nye the average
of 33s 70, 305 quarters realising .£506 Ss, OILS
sold at 23s to 285 per imperial qr.—At the cattle
market there was a very large supply of stock, about
200 head of beasts and 300 sheep changing hands at
the annexed figures :—Cows and calves, LIS Ss to
£27 ISs each; barreners, ,426 5. to 41,41 106 per
pair; fat beef, 15s to 165 per score. Sheep and
lambs met with a dull trade, ewes selling at
405 to 68s per head • whether:, 44s to 725. South-
down sheep in moderate condition may be quoted
thus :—Chilver hogs, 24s to 40. each ; rams, 42$ 6d
to 72s ; two-tooth ewes, 38. to 42s ; two-tooth
couples, 48$ to 49.; four-tooth ewes, 46$ ; four-tooth
couples, 535 to 55;5 ,:x-tooth couples, 475 to 56s :
full mouth cives, 46$ to 405.