THE PRICE OF STOCK.
WILL THEY RISE? A LITTLE SPECULATION. ' • -It riiay^be"wisV.fpr/farriiprs who intend to.. . . , - buy dairy.';!'stock , Nir'caha' .c'pfrespondentsays : that, '/ah'feiv. : .dpalorsare,.going round'.. Inlying up dairy ; vVs herds for'£3 to £4 pei\ head.- Tnev say " events-' theiYr shadows{, be^ i thein. This shadow .means* that a dairy ,■_ CDW | Will; ;be 'an-expensive l animal in the'• ■ '{. : spring, .'{ ■ {.:-V Our Manawatu . ' writes:-^. 1 . The present price of young cattle has evi-': . dently set; tho {farmers a difficult} problem;;': . • t0'..,501ve.". ! .{>A''famer ; .''in' - stcck told ••!mb/ that{the-' decline': .in-:prices:-y; was probably. owing, to the 1 uncertainty" of > feed to*.tide, farmers. over,the'.wiiitor;. '• At' .the { present - rates ■ lie/ considered; 1 it 'would- v - not, pay to rear young stock, and he' men-' ' tioned a,-iocen(;.;Ralo lWierc,good calves.wero . • bought at 05.".. Uis; opinion was',that prices '{. •for young'* stock would;:rise,>blit; lie ; ques- ■ -.•-■V'' tionod-. whether Uic .rise would amount to . much until tho • winter was •'< over. " Ques.tinned ;as to the prospects, of a wholesale ; {■ : slaughtering < of; calves," he... stated:'-that :he :'. '{ lnmly believed- dairymen would: be foolish • - enough lo do this agam next season. ■ "■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 2
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174THE PRICE OF STOCK. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 2
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