The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-02-16 00:00:00

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BRITISH CORN TRADE.

The relative tls2rn-i.;.5-of barley, and cheapness of
wheat, is prompting the increased production of the
former in England awl France. There is. however,
a strong partiality aoringst Lag agriculturi-ts for
the cultivation tit wheat, :hey like the crap, and in
most seasons it pays, whilst taken in rotation the land
is all the better for its wheat harvest. The cry at
present is that foreign beats English grown ; this can-
not be admitted as a fact of the produce of our wheat
soils, which, matured in a fair season, and under a
la:itude that best suits wheat-so° to ss°—Kent,
Norfolk, Lincoln, the Home Counties and Midlands;
Holstein, kostuck, Dansic, &.c., really in quality may
challenge the world. But when it is said foreign
wheat, of ordinary and serviceable quality, can be
produced at less cost than in the United Kingdom, the
truth is probably spoken, and a good argument
advanced, that should lead British farmers to forego
their favourite crop on all except their best land.
In favour of barley it is now quoted sos. against
wheat at aos., but these figures are extreme, and as the
imperial average prices show, the difference to the
credit of barley, in this exceptional year, is now only
ss. 6,1. per, tir , a fact which is quite important enough
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without. being overstated. ..
This week we have seen white English wheat priced
St 54%., awl many of the top-price millers are paying
sos. for their selected samples. Lower down, Essex
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Riven wheat, per 504 IL., makes but aos., some
samples not so much ; yet with a crop of this sort, 7 to
9 bushel per acre, the return is not very bad. For
fair samples of white, weighed at 631 b. per bushel,
45s- is the price asked in Kent and Mark-Lane.
The market business of the past week has been very
discouraging; the recent frosty nights and days have
been of much service to future crop prospects. The
growing corn is rather backward than premature, and
is in good plant and healthy condition. Then the
arrival of grain ships has considerably increased, and
as two Californian vessels have each 18,000 qr. (l)
aboard, the corn trade finds such monster cargoes
difficult to deal with in the present state of opinion. •
4ss. is now the asking price for Californian weighed
b. ; the same per 4921 b. for Ilenlianski and
Nicopol Ghirka, and only ats. for Polish Odessa.
For No. 2 Chicago wheat, prompt shipment, 395. 64.
is asked, but buyers minim 61. reduction per 4801 b.
Thus foreign wheat in comparison with English is
relatively of about the same value, the English samples
making 42%. 7d. per soalb.
Advices from France infer that exports of wheat and
barley arc increasing, and will continue till the end of
the season, the farmers bringing their corn more freely
to market as the advancing year shows them favour-
able field prospects. The North-West departments of
France are reckoned to have good stocks of malting
barley. .however, the French prices, either of wheat,
flour, or barley, scarcely allow of costs of freight to be
added, to command the English market. Out of SO
French reports, half quote a decline oh 64. to is. per
quarter.
The pressure on the English trade is heaviest
through the comparative full stocks of flour available
and pressed oit buyers even less than 28s. per sack
is spoken of for country made, and in competition
American strong barrel flour is to be had at 20S. 94.
per 1961 b., or about 295. per sack, from which the
value of the barrel, is. 44.—0 r at the rate of 25. per
sack—has to be deducted. Thus notwithstanding the
cold weather, which has increased the weekly con-
sumption, it is believed by 8,000 sacks, or one-tenth
of the total, the market has been exceedingly heavy,
and the sale of flour at 30s. to 335., which may he cons
siderssi a medium price, has been difficult, and only
in retail quantities.
In barley all qualities have been slow to sell, buyers
getting some concession..
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Maze on Monday and Wednesday only realised
365. 6d. to 375., a fall of two shillings in about ten
days.
Even oats have lost favour at their late currencies,
and although in short supply. buyers have neglected
them. On Monday they were 61. cheaper from that
day week.
There arc no alterations in the price of beam and
peas. Wheat quotations off the stands are is. lower,
from Wednesday to Wednesday.
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The week', iinports of what and dour into the
United Kingdom are about 4.4,003 qr., and of maize
qr. There were some p gram and seed laden
vt-s,els arrived at port, of call on February 9 and to,
and there are now on sale, t.; wheat and 19 barley
cargoes. The bulk of these vessels is 2,000 to 6,000
quarter,.
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The various country exchanges in England and
Scotland ,plow. on the week's trade, wheat 6d. to Is.
cheaper: barley„ Is. to 2, ; maize Is. ; flour, Is.
lower; oats, beans awl peas, arc only exceptionally
changed.
The corn trade may be summarised as having
become very weak, and even threatening to dealers
and imrirter., whilst factors and growers retain
firmness, basal on the low curriencies to which wheat
has fallen, and in the proverbial belief that at aos. per
qr. capital may always he invested in the staff of life.
Oa Thursday, at Bristol English wheat sold slowly
at a reduction of fully Is. per qr. ; foreign very quiet,
and sales only practicable in retail at a similar decline.
Malting barley plentiful, and is. tu 2s. per qr. lower ;
grinding offered at Is. per quarter reduction, without
leading to budgies: of importance. Maize heasy, and
GI. to I:• per quarter cheaper. A fair consumptive
demand for oats, at about last week's prices. Arrivals :
--Wheat, foreign, 6,358 qrs. ; oats, Irish, 915 qrs. ;
barley, Irish, 95 qrs ; maize, foreign. 4,27! qrs. ;
flour, to sacks coastways, 277 barrels soci sacks
Foreign.

P. d. t rt.
Chills... Dragon. white 44 to 48 per 4001 b.
American, line spring .• .. 44 to 46
PO
Init., secondary .. .• .. 44 to 44
Odessa, soft . • . .4 to 45
fillirka. Odessa. sod Itml.dr. soft 43 to 45
Ileplianski and alarisnople. soft 0 to 0
English. rod and white, new . 40 to 80
NALLY.
English, good to Ann malting .. 311 to 48 per ha qr
French, good t • due malting .. 37 to It per 4:221b.
Irish. good to Ilne malting .. 40 to 41 per 431bs
Danube and AIMS, to 27 per 400Iho
trist. and French, grinding .. 32 to 33

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thrediah, We.. heavy white .. 19 0 to 31 0 per 310Ibs
Limerick and other. fine writhe .. '23 6 to 30 0
Cork. Waterton'. black 91 6 to 27 0 per 30411 as
P. It Wand. black 9 to 27 6 „

Irish, minty . 27 0 to 17
Baum
English 50 0 to 54 0 per Ito qr
French. Ms ragsn..te .. 44 0 to 40 0 per 4301 be
FUJI' a.
States sod li.n .. 21 0 to 23 0 per barrel
EatiOith, good *comas 30 0 to 31 0 per Mit*
INDIAN CORN.
lama, Danube. 30 0 to 40 0 per 4901 b.
lilted Amenuat 37 3 to 30

At Birmingham, English wheat lull, buyers seeming
to hold off. Lower prices ruled, and a decline ol Is.
per quarter hal to be conceded in order to effect sales.
lii foreign wheat, decline of is. per quarter on the
retail trade must he noted.—At Devizes, a good
supply of both wheat and barley. For wheat the
best samples maintained last week's prices, but inferior
lots were a slow sale at, in most cases a reduction of
is. lier quarter. The same remark with apply to
barley. Ohter grain a slow trade at late rates.
Quotations :—llcst wheat, 225 to 235 per sack ;
secondary ditto, tys to 21s ; barley, 38s to so ;
fine (lour, 33. to 37s ; best seconds. 31s to 325.
On Friday, at Mark-Lane, attendance limilcd and
business restricted. English wheat was again sparingly
offered, and foreign only mislerately. I(emand in-
active at about late rates. Barley in moderate supply.
The market throughout was dull, at Monday's cur-
rency. Malt dull on former terms. The show of oats
less extensive. Transactions only moderate at last
week's prizes. Maize met a slow sale, at about late
rates Beans and peas are iii slow request, and prices
barely so firm. Flour dull, at Monday's quotations.
At Derby dullness marked the wheat trade. At
I.incoln the demand was quiet, sellers asking more
money than millers were willing to give. Sales
were made to a 'United extent, and rates were un-
altered, red realising 434 to 4frs, and whites 48s to
53, per 36 stone. At Liverpool, with an average at-
tendance"( millers and dealers, wheat at a decline of
2,1 per rental, was in fair consumptive request ; dour
hail a inulerate sale at Tuesday's price,. At Wake-
field there was 00 improvement in the wheat trade and
transactions wereeffected slowly, at a reduction of Is
per ip. from the prices of last week . • l'orkshire
white 425 to 50., red, 38. to 42i ; Suffolk, Essex,
and Kent, %bite. 43, to 34, ; red, 40. to 44, ; Norfolk
and I lants, white 43. to 32. ; red, 39. to 43s ; Lin-
colnshire and Cambridgeshire, white, 435 to 304 ; red,
355 to ,is ; I kutuic and Konigsburg,white 43, to 335;
ni Cr Baltic, Hamburg, and Holstein, red, 42. to
45s per qr. Of Barley the supply was small, but it
provel in excess of the.lentand, and a further decline
in is per quarter hail to be conceded to effect sales.