FARMERS COLUMN.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume 1, Issue IV, 24 May 1905, Page 3

FARMERS COLUMN.

HQR3E SALEo inyengfirgUl, every Saturday. Winton, last Frid* 1 " m e.»ch month. Otautau, t third Fridiy m each month .STO JK SALES Otantaj^ pecbnd .Virtav m each n. into. \ViWfi, F.rst Thursday m esoh month. "tWnhnrv. Fir-.t Friday m each month. Molaburn, Monday Bth May, Good store wetbers are the only class of sheep which do not seem to have suffered much by the recent drop m prices, „ A line of two-tooth 'ewes which were bought at ths Mararoa sale, were resold at a, s .le held during the past week, at Castlerock, and the operation resulted m a loss of 3s to their owner after paying commission aud other expenses. The fat lamb biyjons throughout the district ars unable to give within Q.ie shilling per head of what they were giving a few weeks past, She ciuse is a slight drop i^ the. Londpn market. A, nice \hip of buttocks fattened hy Mr John Henderson, o. Ota'pfr-. W as sold during the weels; to, Jnvercarl gill buyer. The,. Jfoe, reflects great credjit on the, fetfcanfhg capabilities of ; Mr Hencteraon's farm. :' i> Are sheep likely to come, :. awn, ha, price,- and is there . prospective- e<vly rise m cattle. -Jj'h^se. are : two. points aghs^rn^. the. minds o£ : fa. 1 .. .rs' ,at the present time andj sa tyttte can \ any. of us see into, the. -future that the answer is j^a. thgafty decided by the position e#oh individual stands m ion tbe market. If he has already bought and 14. well stocked with sheep, you will invariably -_nd- the answer is " 'There is going to be no i fall." If, o. r> the. other hand, the ! speaker is bare of stock, he invariably i. inclines to the belief that prices must , go down. Those who have sold cwt

of sheep and gone m, for cattle to fatten, profess to see quite a certain rise looming ahead as they maintain that two articles m daily use for the same purpose cannot remain so widely divergent m value as beef and mutton at ths present moment and, inclining to the opinion of the man who says that sheep are going to maintain their value, argues that that being so cattle must go up m p. ice. We give the problem up ; perhaps some of otir agricultural seers can propound a solution. Meantime, it is a significant point that meat m the cities has dropped a penny per pound.