The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1875-06-22 00:00:00

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BRITISH COeRN TRADE. per score.
NIETROPOLITAN, THURSD.w.—We have a
Attentpts are now making by sellers to force up the
much shorter supply of beasts than on last Thursday.
Trade is brisk, and our quotations arc readily obtained,
price; of wheat, and should they be temporarily suc-
cessful, the summer level of value would be in some
degree established. There is however, appArem in a few instances they have been exceeded. The :
number of sheep is also smaller, the demand is good.
but little chance of any permanent advance, for the
same week that America asks a3s rise in wheat quo- • and prices have advanced a little. There is a large
tations, the ships 160,000 qr. and telegraphs that the number of calves on sale, but the average quality is
harvest in California good swing, and with results my middling, consequently choice qualities arc not
that promise a surplus (including the crop of Oregon) cheaper. There arc 6o English and
50 foreign milch
td 232 million qr. The two facts coining together cows on oiler; trade continues very dull. Our foreign
are certainly opposed. supply consists of 220 beasts, 4,900 sheep, and 710
At the same time, as if in concert with New York, calves.
, l'aris has been putting up the price of wheat and flour,
and telegram.: have come telling us the French crop
will only be two thirds of last year's yield ; but the
click of the telegraph needle assures us the next
moment that the important districts of Verdun,
Amiens the Seine-et-Oise, the West Region, and the
S.E. Departments, are in good condition, Intl likely
to have an average crop. As to the English fields
they look well enough after the recent soaking rains
to satisfy the farmer, who, if he still holds in hand his
wheat crop, does so because he is not wanting money,
and not because he expects to reap a short crop. Far-
mers have a natural satisfaction in being their own
bankers, and having a good balance of capital in their
rickyard, and which they
.can convert into cash as it
suits them. The reverse is the ease with the market.
men of all the Corn Exchanges ; they like the little
ups and downs of fluctuations in preference to the
steam! trade that better suits both the grower and con-
sumer.
. The imports of wheat and flour into the Cnited
Kingdom during the past week have been good-
-250,030 qr. 01 maize, the imports have been rather
over 100,000 qr. The inland markets recently have
been very poorly supplied with feeding stuffs. Barley,
oats, beans, and peas have all been on offer in
restricted quantity only. Wheat has been a very fair
supply, but rather under the average, and a good deal
below expectations formed on this season's deliveries
hitherto. Value as a consequence has inclined rather
in favour of the holders of grain than of intending pur-
chasers and the tone of trade has become temporarily

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strong.
Wheat, both red and white descriptions, has
realised on sale a general advance of is on the week,
and the demand has in many districts been compara-
tively active for choice sainples. Buyers, however,
admit the improvement with reluctance. Throughout
the country the vigorous and healthy growth of the
wheat plant on good lands promises a tine harvest,
and the progress making towards maturity gives reason
for hope that cutting will begin this year at the usual
time, instead of being late by a fortnight or three
weeks, as was anticipated earlier in the season.
Flour has been occasionally 6d timer on the week,
but inquiry has been limited.
The great ports have been firm for all staples, with
the exception of barley, beans, and peas. Ileans are
quite 34 to 4s cheaper on the week's trade. Wheat
has been as dearer to buy generally. Oats have been
well maintained at currencies. Maize and flour 6d to
is higher occasionally. Oats have been well main-
tained at currencies. The tone of business has been
under Vie influence of general and international good
harvest prospects, and with 1,250,000 qr. of wheat on
, better than previously had been thecase, but the ports are
passage, at adate when the new crop is being cut in
many countries, the situation remains favourable to
I buyers.
' The prices now asking for cargoes arrived arc—
wheat, fine (Mirka, 454 to 47s ; Oregon, 46s ; Cali-
fornian, 41% to 43s ; for maize, 324 to 33; 6d ; For
beans, 34s ; for Odessa barley, 244 3d.

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