SOUTHERN DAIRY PROSPECTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 533, 19 June 1909, Page 8

SOUTHERN DAIRY PROSPECTS.

; ' • COV/S DEAR. ' The prospwts ,for dairying in. South Crinterbury ocntinue-to bo encouraging (says a iemuka coriesiwndent), and thoro is every indication that, a jjood price will ho maini ■ ' ,u "' or "( il t for-'some time-to come. • a A of P°°plo with faith ill-; tho tutliro' of dairying .has beon-plainly, evinced at two.recont sales of dairy stock. Ihe milking season, is practically over, and usually, nearly : drv cows at-this season of the- year can hardly be given away. At tlie sales in guestion. howoyer, it seemed as'-if buyers could hardly got iii bids fast ciiougli,, and even two-teated scrubbers were- taken away at prices which left very littlo change out of a five-pound note. Cows to calvo in October fetched £6 to £8 10s., and" one realised tho latter prico which was not due to calve until December. At No. 2 salo not quite so many wero submitted, but tliey ware ill splrauid order. Tho larger proportion w;ore,'of. Polled-Angus bfeed.br cross, which are _not particularly esteemed-' as.,milkers. It maao uo .diflerenc©. ..-Peoplo cauio a distaiico of: over, thirty., miles to. that little-sale,. and ; tuey. took most of tho stock away , with them. It .wqulcLseem either that thero*is a scarcity of milkers, or that thero aro people ivho qoiitemplato entering upon the dairying business, and wish to male© certain of securing the requisite stock even if they have to hold them for a timo. '