WEATHER AND STOCK.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 9, 10 July 1909, Page 9

WEATHER AND STOCK.

[BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] FEILDING, This Day. Despite cold and very wintry weather, there was a large number of settlors in town yesterday. The one topic of conversation was the surprisingly good results of the weekly sales in the sheepyards. One line of Romney ewes brought up to 235, and good ordinaries ranged up to 19s 3d. No wonder our farmers are rejoicing. I am told that the demand for good sheep is away ahead of the supply, and Waikato farmers are amongst the enquirers, but the Waikato man wants cheaper lines than are going hpre just now. The Waikato trade is growing in Feilding, as a result of the Main Trunk railway giving us direct communication with Hamlton. The reason for the continued big demand for sheep is the mildness of the winter season, resulting in an abundance of feed. Many farmers who got rid of their surplus sheep months' ago because they feared the feed would not continue are now buying back- again. There is all round the district more feed than there ''s sheep to eat it off. Our farmers are now wanting the mildness to continue until after the lambing. Although the season is early, lambing has. already begun in parts of the Feilding district.