THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE, 



467 



throughout the month has been a dull sale, at un- 

 altered quotations. 



The oat trade for the last three weeks has had 

 moderate supplies from Denmark and Sweden, and 

 these being very much wanted have gone off well, 

 at an improvement of Is. to Is. 6d. per qr., the most 

 decided advance taking place on the third Monday. 

 The last market was also rather against buyers ; 

 granary parcels, more especially Russian, have only 

 slightly improved, 39 to 40lbs. per bush;, Riga 

 being only worth 24s. per qr. ; but without 

 more liberal foreign arrivals the granaries must 

 shortly be cleared out, as neither Scotland nor Ire- 

 land, more especially the latter country, seems able 

 to meet the enormous demand of London. Hol- 

 land, Belgium, and France, all quote higher rates ; 

 and there is a great failure in the Adriatic, which 

 is taking off the stocks from Odessa, These 

 circumstances, coupled with the want of grass 

 and fodder of all kinds, seem still to point to 

 higher prices, without a decided and speedy im- 

 provement in the weather. The improved supplies 

 of home growth have partly made up for the defi- 

 ciencies in Scotch and Irish sorts. The imports 

 for the four weeks into London have been 7,037 

 qrs. English, 756 qrs. Scotch, 3,180 qrs. Irish, and 

 75,369 qrs. foreign, against 1,917 qrs. English, 

 5,494 qrs. Scotch, 10,361 qrr. Irish, and 133, 155 qrs. 

 foreign, in April, 1859, which exhibits a decrease 

 of 64,585 qrs. There have also been 568 qrs. ex- 

 ported. 



Beans show a rather improved supply; but the 

 rise in barley and general want of fodder have kept 

 up prices, which have been rather dearer for 

 choice parcels. There seems to be very little 

 prospect of their receding in value, even in the 

 summer months, as the usual quantity is not ex- 

 pected this season from Egypt, where prices have 

 been rising, and very few come from France. The 

 imports for the four weeks have been 3,129 qrs. 

 English and 3,312 qrs. foreign, against 2,145 qrs. 

 English and 2,275 qrs. foreign this time last year. 



The supplies of peas have been moderate ; and 

 very little change could be noted in their value. 

 Maples all along have been dear — say 38s. to 40s. 

 per qr. — and their scarcity seems likely to keep 

 them so. Duns, at 34s. to 36s. per qr., have gone 

 off steadily, there being no quantity offering, to 

 attract much notice. Boilers have remained a 

 heavy trade; but, being valuable when old as 

 horse-feed, they have been rather more saleable of 

 late, and will doubtless be cleared off in this way, 

 if no previous contract should take off the small 

 stocks in granary. For fine white boilers only 

 42s. per qr. has been asked. The imports for the 

 four weeks have been, in English sorts 885 qrs., 

 in foreign (chiefly white) 1,188 qrs., against 305 

 qrs. native, 705 qrs. foreign, in April, 1859. 



The supplies of linseed have rather increased ; 

 but, notwithstanding a fair export trade, prices 

 have lately somewhat tended downwards ; still, the 

 reduction has not exceeded Is. per qr. ; and the 

 constant and increased demand for cake, at rather 

 improved value, seems likely to keep the article at 

 about its present range, all the sources of supply 

 giving high quotations, as well as reporting short 

 crops and low stocks, The protracted character of 



the spring has done much harm to the seed trade. 

 Holders of red cloverseed, by a deferred demand, 

 got so discouraged, that many submitted to low 

 speculative rates, in sheer despondency. But, on 

 the recurrence of a more favourable time for 

 sowing, a demand sprung up, which revived prices 

 quite 3s. per cwt. ; and dealers now seem deter- 

 mined to hold out to the last, rather than suffer 

 again. White seed, on the contrary, all along 

 having from its scarcity been held at extravagant 

 rates, has so kept a check upon purchases, that 

 there seems a chance of some being left over ; and 

 this idea has not a little operated upon over- 

 confident holders, who can have no intention of 

 speculating on the smallest stocks, at present 

 rates. Trefoil has been dull. Tares this season 

 have been unusually neglected, from its backward 

 and irregular character. Those still on hand have 

 sunk to feeding prices, as low as 35s. per qr. having 

 been taken for small, as they are not liked, for 

 pigeons or other animals, till old. Canaryseed has 

 been very dull, at a low range, its extended culture 

 abroad giving speculators the idea of its being 

 quite overdone; but one year's failure or discou- 

 raging rates will bring about a change in this fluc- 

 tuating produce. Hempseed, mustardseed, and 

 other seeds have little varied. 



CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. 



Quarter. 

 45 to 58 

 44 53 



Shillings per 



WHEAT, Essex and Kent, white, new 43 to 55 ....old 



,, ,, red new 42 52 ....old 



Norfolk, Line, and Yorks., red 



BARLEY, malting, new 30 to 38 .... Chevalier, new. . 



Grinding 28 :iO Distilling 



MALT, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk ... 49 to 57 . . fine 



Kingston, Ware, and town made .. 49 57 . . ,, 



Brown 48 49.. 



RYE new-- — .. 



OATS, English, feed ... 21 to 26 Potato 



Scotch, feed 22 27 Potato 



Irish, feed, wliite 21 to 24 .. fine 



Ditto, black 21 24.. „ 



BEANS, Mazagan 32 to 37 .... Ticks 



Harrow 34 42 .. .. Pigeon 



PEAS, new, white, boilers 36 40 Maple 37 to 38 Grey 

 FLOUR, per sack of 280 lb., Town, Households 4 1 g., fine 



Country 36 to 37 Households .. 



Norfolk and Sufl'olk, ex-ship 



FOREIGN GRAIN. 



Shillinjra per 



WHEAT, Dantzlc,mixed 54 to — high do. — toSSe.Ntra 



Konigsberg 50 55 ,, — — 



Rostock 54 — flne5« old 58 



American, white .. 47 53 red.. .. 46 to 51 

 Pomera.,Meckbg., & Uckermrk,red 51 53 



Silesian, red 46 51 white 



Danish and Holstein 



Russian, hard 47 to 50 .. French 45 to 51 .. white 



St. Petersburg and Riga 



Rhine and Belgium 



BARLEY, grinding.. 27 to 30 .. Distilling.. 



OATS, Dutch, brew, & Polands 23 28 .. Feed 



Danish and Swedish, feed .. 22 25 .. Stralsund. 

 Russian 



BEANS, Friesland and Holstein 



Konigsberg 34 to 37 .. Egyptian .... 



PEAS, feeding 30 37 .. fine boilers.. 



INDIAN CORN, white 34 37 . . yellow 



FLOUR, per sack.... French 32 40 .. Spanish,none 

 American, per hrl., sour. ; 25 26 .. sweet ...... 



41 

 40 

 81 

 60 

 GO 



30 

 27 

 27 

 25 



34 

 45 

 33 

 43 

 39 

 35 



62 

 46 

 32 

 70 

 70 



31 

 30 

 30 

 28 

 26 

 36 

 48 

 34 

 46 

 41 

 35 



Quarter. 

 — to 59 



50 

 48 

 48 

 46 

 48 

 31 

 20 

 2i 

 21 

 34 

 34 

 37 

 31 



54 



52 

 52 

 52 

 54 

 32 

 24 

 26 

 23 

 38 

 36 

 40 

 36 



27 29 



COMPARATIVE AVERAGES— 1860-59. 



From last Friday's Oaz. s. d. 



Wheat 94,086qrs.49 1 



Barley 21,913 .. 37 2 



Oats 9,006 .. 24 2 



Rye 62 .. 36 10 



Beans 3,974 .. 39 9 



Peas. 



793 .. 38 3 Peas 



From (?(/?e«e of 1859. g. d. 



Wheat 105,060 qrs. 41 2 



Barley 30,727 . . 33 



Oats 10,028 .. 23 7 



Rye 52 .. 31 6 



Beans 3,254 .. 41 5 



284 .. 39 4 



