The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-06-01 00:00:00

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BRITISII CORN TRADE.
The past month has very generally improved the
harvest prospects of the world, and the promise of
fruit, corn, and even hay, has not been broken by any
of those severe May frosts which have often marred
expectations in other year's- There have been one or
two gales which have done havoc amongst the foliage
and fruit trees, and several nights have been a little
frosty under north-easterly air currents, which now
prevail, and, added to the dryness of the surface soil,
they have given many wheat fields a yellow, withered
tinge to the young flags- The soil temperature is
high, about 60' at 6 inches deep, and as most of the
corn and forage plants well cover the ground the
dryness 6 less than it seems. The crop of trifolium
is good, and now generally in blossom.
The great ports have been well supplied with grain
during the past week. From abroad there have
arrived upwards of 230,000 qr. of wheat and flour—
a large import, although less than during the first
part of the month—and about 160,000 or. of maize.
Oats, too, have come in with liberality. London
alone has received upwards of 360,030 qr. in three
weeks. Beans and peas have been in comparatively
good supply also. Of barley, the arrivals have been
moderate only. The general amount of the imports,
together with the continued favourable weather for
the crops, and the reports from the Continental Corn
Exchanges have had a iptural influence in depressing
value and causing a weakness in trade. The exhaus•
tion of the granaries, however, has taken off a good
deal of the effect of the large supplies throughout the
month, and the present very low range of currencies
for wheat, flour, and barley, precluding almost any
further value in these staples being much affected.
On oats, which for a rather lengethened period
have been maintained at very .high rates, the effect
has come with the greatest severity. On the London
Corn Exchange the chief market for oats, as being on
the Eastern coast like Liverpool for maize on the
Western, the fall in vaiuc, following on an excess of
supply over demand, has been as heavy as tos or 30
1
ter ccnt, on some sorts. On the week oats are
generally 6d to is cheaper at the ports, and the incli-
nation is still downwards at many places. In the
value of maize, also, there has been some alteration.
At I.iverpool 9d to is reduction has been admitted by
holders of American mixed, and at London, American
mixed has fallen from 34.5 6d to 335 6d, and Galatz
from 36s and 375 to 35s and 365.
Beans and peas have been subject to a decline of
311, (xl, or is, according to local supply. At some of
the ports a fair business has passed at the altered cur-
rencies, but at many others the change conceded by
holders has failed to attract a sale, and buyers stand
off for a further reduction. Barley for grinding has
been no cheaper as a rule. Prices have ranged from
235 6d upwards. Malting barley and malt have been
dull at all the I,orts-305 to vs has been the usual
range of price for malting barley, and 6os to 72s for
malt. . .

Wheat American and Rutssian sorts, have here and
there been purchasable at a reduction of Is to as; but
this further fall has been scarcely general. The lowest
quotations are now about 425 for good samples.
Flour, like wheat, has been weak in tone, but not
generally cheaper to buy. Business, speaking of the
whole trade, has been extremely lethargic. Wheat
and flour have not altered from thestagnation previously
existing, and the business in spring corn and feeding
stuffs has lost the appearance of vitality with which
the month opened.
Of the inland markets the general character has
been great dullness of trade at not materially changed
prices. Wheat has been in fair supply, while spring corn
has been on offer in but small quantities. Oats,ibeans,
and pais have been locally cheaper; grinding barley
has been generally offered for sale at 6d to ts less
money on the week. Wheat, dearer at one or two
places, and cheaper at five or six, has been without
change at the large majority. Flour also has been
dull and steady.

131113tIAL AVIIL•011111.

Wheat. Barley.
---
e; 4. itas
Jan. 2.. 37.921 44 2 4111.21.
9 .. 42,973 45 1 42.962
-- 18 .. 67,002 44 6 55,621
-- 23 .. 62,755 43 9 66,227
- 30 .. 54,5.24 43 0 53,%2
Feb. 6.. 51,374 42 7 4.1,731
- 13 .. 50.952 41 11 40,622
- - 20 .. 59,0941 41 6 40,571'
-- 27 .. 53,6541 40 11 41,241
Mar. II .. 53,1671 40 1 33,311
13 .. 60,1191 41 4 35,431
20 .. 67,1531 41 0 24,701
- 27 .. 57,4791 41 10 20,91:
April 3 - 46—, - —4-1-5-
1
--- 10 .. 54, 43 1
17 .. 61,244 43 4
24 .. 65,744 424
May 1 . Zes 7 42 10
-
8 - in. 42 8
lfi .. 12,3701 42 2
-- 22 . . 51,1,74. 420
bit *mks' t I--
art:rage 1 42 9

b. 16:
5.171
2,93:
3.44%
1.341

41 3
408
406
41 4
38 10
39 0
37 4
383

392

L 72
2,050
2,167
1,462
1,569
1,803
1,164
1,331

303
300
$OO
V 9
300
300
307
31 3

On Thursday, at Bristol, a small supply of English
wheat which sold at last week's prices ; foreign dull,
and fully Csl per quarter cheaper. Grinding barley
6,1 to is per quarter lower. Maize declined fully is
per quarter with a dull trade. Oats a slow sale, at a
reduction of 6d per quarter. Arrivals :—Wheat,
foreign, 5,414 quarters; oats, 2,131 quarters ; Irish,
2,104 foreign ; barley, foreign, 11,212 quarters ; maize,
foreign, 2,237 quarters.
W ilEs? a. d. S. d.
Milian Oregon, white 0 to 42 0 per 4081Im
American, iine spring 43 0 to 44 0
Ditto, secondary 42 0 to 43 0
Polish Odessa, soft •• 42 0 to 43 0
Ghirks, Mimes. and Mutat, soft 42 0 to 43 0
lierdianeki and Marinnonle, tuft 0 0 to 0 0
English. rod and white, new . 40 0 to 48 0
Bsairr.
English, good to line melting .. 0 0 to 0
French, good to fine malting .. 0 0 to 0
Irish, good to One malting .. 0 0 to 0
Danube and Odeeria. grinding • • 25 0 to 25
Irish and French. grinding .. 24 0 to TJ

0 per Imp.qr
0 per 4201 he
Iler 43111,e
6 per 4001b0
0 „

oani.
swodish.*.c., heavy white .. 19 0 to 30
Limerick and other, One whit... 29 0 to 19
Cork, Waterford, eek 25 6 to 26
P. E. Island, black .. .. 26 6 to 26
Irish, tawny .. 6 to V
Basal.
English ~ • •
French. Warn, itc. • •
I tore
Calitcd Slats* and Canadian
English, good Ilecunds
INMAN CORN.
iNksisa, Danube, ac • 35 6 to 96 0 per 5601 be
Mixed Aincrican • • 33 0 to 34 0 ..
hun 31 6 to 25 Oper
At Devizes, the trsde was slow, at last week's
prices. At Birmingham, wheat demand was exceed-
ingly limited, owing chiefly to the bad condition of thc
samples on offer. Prices were not quotably lower than
for some weeks past.
On Friday, at Mark-Lane, the market was very
quiet. Coth English and foreign wheat met a (lull
sale without alteration in values. The flour trade was
slow, at barely previous rates. Barley, both malting
and grinding, remained without change. British oats
continued steady in value ; there was a large supply
of foreign, but Russian qualities were 6.1 per guilder
dearer on the week. Maize, bans, aml peas were
unchanged. At Liverpool the market was exceed-
ingly inanimate, and white descriptions of wheat were
Id to zd per cental lower. The flour trade was flat.
Oats %vete dull of sale. &mils ts per quarter cheaper.
l'eas 6tl per quarter lower. Italian corn slow at 6tl
per quarter reduction.

0 per 320114

.. 41 C to 48
.. 41 0 to 42

.. 20 0 to 21
..2 0 to 90

0 per 3041b0
° "

0 per Imp. qr
0 per 4001 b.