HEARING IN CANTERBURY

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2586, 2 December 1931, Page 3

HEARING IN CANTERBURY

SKASOX WELL ADVANCED Sn.Aii; Hl(.{ FLOCKS To 1)0 In most f>arts of North < ‘jinferbury shearing is well mlvtinccd. I p to a week ago. when general rainfall tenipyrsuily chocked operations, the dry .-pt 11. ma lo ronditions excellent/ for shearing. and until the hroken weather of last week tin* set:son was one of the *hest for several years. Fast, week's cold snap, while it appears to he general throughout the 1 rovinee. is not regarded as harsh enough to have any serious ill-effects on the shorn sheep. Many of tin* runholders in North < ’anterhiuy have still a majority of their sheep to muster and put through the sheds, and stock on the high country will he started on in th near future, provided that the weather improves. The rain of last week force 1 farmers to turn out their sheep, Imt the benefit to the crops and pastures from

tin* heavy rainfall will more than make up for the temporary inconvenience in the shearing sheds. Many farmers are doing their own shearing this year, a fact which will tend to retard operations to seme extent. -Vl Kaikoura a number of farmers have finished their shearing, but there arc a great many, especially among big runholders. who have not yet made a start. One farmer has still over 7000 sheep to muster off the ranges.