1908.] 



Corn Markets in November. 



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The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have made an Order entitled the 

 American Gooseberry Mildew (Prohibition of Importation 

 American GOOSeberry Q f Bushes) Amendment Order of 1908, which provides 

 Mildew (Prohibition Of that the provisions of the American Gooseberry Mildew 

 Importation Of (Prohibition of Importation of Bushes) Order of 1907 



Bushes) Amendment * h " ex * nd ° r W^, 1 ",,'"* 1 !;* fought to Great 



' Britain from the Channel Islands. The Order came into 



Order Of 1908. operation on the 16th of November, 1908. 



This Order, which came into force on 8th December, 1908, defines a district 

 comprising the administrative county of the Isle of Ely, 

 American GOOSeberry and P arts of the counties of the Parts of Holland, Norfolk, 

 Mildew (Wisbech Huntingdon and Cambridge, within which gooseberry or 

 . , currant bushes may not be moved without a licence 



and District) Order si d b an . Inspector of the Board, and prescribes th e 

 of 1908. form of licence to be used both in the case of movement 



from infected and from other premises. 



THE CORN MARKETS IN NOVEMBER. 

 C. Kains-Jackson. 



The month of November, with its remarkably high average temperature, 

 "has brought permanently into consideration a matter on which most market 

 frequenters will be found willing to express a decided opinion, though but 

 few are in a position to submit any evidence bearing on the point, viz., to what 

 extent weather affects demand. The probability is thatits effect on retail con- 

 sumption is much exaggerated, but that its influence on opinion is serious, 

 and that that opinion affects large wholesale transactions, partly speculative, 

 which do much to govern retail prices. The conditions of London trade are 

 also peculiarly adverse to brisk markets in any November, for such 

 conditions are expressed in the formula "a month as cash," and there is 

 great unwillingness to enter into contracts entailing cash payments in 

 December. The view of seasoned operators at the Mark Lane market on 

 the 30th November appeared to be that the month had been traversed 

 not unsatisfactorily. 



Wheat. — The price of English wheat has been for the past three months 

 of the cereal year 2s. ^\d. lower per 480 lb. than for the like period last year. 

 But no Imperial average under 305-. has been quoted even in weeks of 

 exceptionally heavy deliveries, and the mean price for the last week of 

 the month was 32s. 3^., a decided recovery from the 30^. lid. of the first 

 week. Business has exceeded the average, and millers have expressed 

 themselves surprised in many cases at the weight and bread-making 

 strength of the newly-threshed corn. Very weak sorts of wheat have been 

 so much denounced by millers of recent years, that they appear largely to 

 have gone out of sowing use. Whether what millers ask for in wheat is 

 what they should ask for is a matter of hypothesis, and one for the scientist 

 and analyst to advise upon rather than the farmer himself, who in endeavouring 

 to meet '.'.the requirements of his customer is fulfilling his more immediate 

 duty. The steady and good demand for English wheat ever since harvest 

 is due, in part, doubtless to the dry weather, enabling newly-threshed 

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