NOT A YEAR FOR FATTENERS.
New Zealand farmers who bought _ storo I slieep''^nd ; t lam^.'and ; soiling' the fattened'- article at a profit hayo -the"English graziers'for: company in. theirtroubles.' Tho London ."Times" of February 22 said :-r—"Tlie.depressed -state of the mut-. ton market,' for. .which no satisfactory, explanation has yet boon forthcoming, shows no sign-of improvement, and if the present low rates continue I 'much : longer, the; conse-. auenccs to winter graziers will be disastrous. ; Already-'many; havo to' sell their s wethers . and hoggets, owing to a shortage of roots,'and in-: some -.instances -the .prices obtained were leSs -than;those;: ; paid' when the. animals..were .-bought in'the ■ autumn,'and ©yen the most ; fortunate liavo realised - an in-, adequatereturn forthe food consumed/ the 'marliets; being equaUy ; adyerse .te'vthe .farmer, in all: parts of, the . Fat cattle; sell' . well,arid' there.' is sbriio.'hbpefor.the farmer who fattens, both classes of stock that hb may bo able to come out fairly well on a balanr-o of - the mutton markfit"-"
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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160NOT A YEAR FOR FATTENERS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 487, 21 April 1909, Page 5
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