The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-08-24 00:00:00

BRITISH CORN TRADE.

The markets have fluctuated downward in value,
but the decline has not been heavy under the circum-
stances. The immediate future rests with the tanners:
if they thresh out quickly and market their new
wheat, whatever its quality, the cunent prices must
further recede, notwithstanding the resolution of
importers to keep up value as long as the home pro-
ducer will let them.
The number of wheat cargoes off coast, 60 as a
total, oppresses trade, yet the sales of Wednesday
were sos for Marianople and Milwaukee, down to
48s for Canadian spring Wheat.
Barley made 245 6d and ass oil per 400 lb., a cargo
of Larache beans, ssis ; several cargoes were with.

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drawn from sale.
New English wheat raliCS so much that 42$ to 525
is the present range, whilst old samples make 545 to
58s. Flour at 37$ to 475 is neglected. Considering
the warm and working weather from Sunday up to '
Thursday, the position of the Exchanges has exhibited
strength. Cable advices from America announce
large weekly shipments.
The imports of wheat and flour into the United
Kingdom have again been heavy, the total foreign
arrival of the past week having reached 300,000 qr.
Of maize the imports have touched t 05,000 qr. The
supplies of English wheat, 31,175 qr., have been very
fair. Of English barley there is scarcely anything on
offer at any of the markets, and English oats are
extremely scarce, for neither of oats or of barley have
new samples as yet reached the markets.
The past week has probably been the great week
of the season for the actual reaping in England. A
favourable chance has been so long deferred, that
farmers have been making the utmost haste to get in
their wheat and barley. Many have, with the aid of
the machines, been able to cut and carry large fields
of corn in the day. The attendance at the Provincial
Exchanges has, of course, been lessened by the
neces.,ity of farmers being in the fields.
With the fine weather the markets have assumed a
brighter tone for buyers, and a worse aspect for
sellers. Wheat has to be quoted is to as, and
occasionally zs 6d cheaper on the week generally, to
sell. Holders, however, preserve confidence in the
situation. A warm sun may enable the farmer to get
in the wheat, such as it is, well ; but heat and dry
weather now, will not make up for the absence of
sunshine throughout July. There is, consequently,
no desire to sell extensively, although when 25 is
knocked off the recent final advance, currencies are
still much above the rates that prevailed but a short
time back. Barley is expected to be a fairly large
crop, although the quality is suspected. The new
samples, however, are not yet in the market. Oats
have been in steady demand, and the wheat brought
to market has been offered and bought at the curren-
cies previously settled. Some samples of this year's
crop of peas have found their way to the Exchanges,
but there has been little disposition to buy, either for
puss or beans. In the Southern and home Counties,
new rye has been on offer at from 355 to gos per qr.
At these rates the offerings have generally found pur-
chasers. . . .

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As to the great ports, the fine harvest weather at
home, the improved reports from abroad, very heavy
and continuous grain arrivals off the Coast, with large
quantities of corn on passage and being shipped, have
turned, temporarily, the scale in favour of grain pur-
chasers; and the large Corn Exchanges have been
rather worse than the smaller inland mai kcts.

Californian wheat is being shipped for Liverpool,
at an expense, all things being reckoned, of 58s per
qr.
The French, Rhenish, Belgian, Dutch, Austrian,
and Prussian markets have all as a rule been either
quiet and unchanged, or slow at reduced quotations,
and this has contributed to weaken the British port
markets.
muuora.

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