634 Corn Markets in October. [nov., 



Indus and in the Punjab. It is wheat rather favoured by millers, and makes 

 about 40s. per 496 lb. ; sometimes a little less is taken for a sample not of 

 ideal cleanness. Persia and Turkey send a little wheat, for which 38^. per 

 480 lb. may perhaps be given as a mean value. 



Flour. — The top price of London flour remains steady at 33^. per 280 lb. 

 sack. This sort satisfies all the demands of the fancy and confectionery 

 trade as a rule, but Hungarian has special uses for what may be termed 

 confectionery de luxe and commands 40s. per sack. The finest type for 

 household bread making, "London whites," fetches 31.?. per sack cash ex 

 mill, and America offers its best grades, Minneapolis, Duluth, etc., at a 

 parity of value. Ordinary London household flour is quoted 285. per 280 lb. 

 for cash, and is 6d. lower in the two months 1st September to 31st October. 

 The price of fine country flour is about 26s. per sack, with 24^. accepted for 

 the serviceable type known as "roller whites" and 23s. for the wholesome 

 but comparatively neglected sort made and ground between stones. The 

 quantity of foreign flour on passage is 240,000 sacks or about an average ; 

 as usual, the greater proportion is coming from the United States. A good 

 demand for whole meal is reported, and 2gs. per sack is paid. 



Barley. — The average price of English barley for the eight completed 

 weeks of the cereal year is 26s. Sd. per 400 lb., a price showing some 

 advance on last season. It is, however, impossible to say how much of this 

 barley has been of malting type, sold per 448 lb. and reduced to 400 lb. in 

 conformity with the Corn Returns Act, for purposes of striking an average, 

 and how much of it has been of feeding quality only. The demand for 

 good barley is itself good, and 37^. to 38^. per 448 lb. was readily paid at 

 Blandford for prize samples at the Dorsetshire Annual Show. The fine 

 Moravian barley now offering in London, a sample of which won the 

 prize at the Brewers' Exhibition at Islington, is held for 44^. per 448 lb. 

 or thereabouts. Hungarian barley also exceeds a forty shilling level. The 

 average price recently realised in Kent has been excellent, and this of 

 course has been for English barley. Russian feeding barley at 22s. per 

 400 lb. is much in evidence at Mark Lane and Bristol, and there is a 

 little Persian offering at 20s. to 21s. per 400 lb. 



Oats. — The average price of English oats for the eight completed weeks 

 of the cereal year is iys. 2d. per 312 lb., a decline of M. from the same period 

 of last season. The fall is due largely if not entirely to the unusually large 

 deliveries of weathered grain. Russian oats have fallen from 1 5 s. gd. per 304 lb. 

 in September to 15s. at the end of October. The shipments from Russia, 

 however, have only averaged 100,000 qrs. weekly, which is below the 

 average. The Argentine shipments have been only about half the Russian, 

 but the new crop is of such high promise (and on a largely increased acreage) 

 that the price of La Plata oats by the end of October had fallen as low as 

 14s. gd. per 304 lb. 



Maize. — The oldest frequenter of Mark Lane, probably, cannot recall an 

 autumn when no American maize was on sale. The supply has for the last 

 two months been confined to the yellow corn of La Plata, and the round 

 grain of South-Eastern Europe. Prices in September were high, nothing- 

 being obtainable under 30^. per 480 lb. During October they were gradually 

 reduced until on the 30th at Mark Lane and Liverpool i%s. to 28^. 6d. per 

 480 lb. was accepted. This, however, is not a low price. The Argentine 

 shipments averaged 200,000 qrs. weekly, those of South-Eastern Europe 

 50,000 qrs. weekly. Under the heading South-Eastern Europe the corn trade 



