GRAZIERS' FAT YEAR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1713, 2 January 1920, Page 6

GRAZIERS' FAT YEAR.

1919 A RECORD.

lilt; PURSES AND BRIGHT HOPES

Graziers can look back to 1919 with a fueling of great satisfaction, for never have they passed through a mpro mosporous vcaV (3»y» the Auckland Star). The prices they received for their fat stock were (inner than the previous year—a .good twelve months—and the top price reached, £3 ICb per hundred, was the highest on record. Several factors contributed to line very pleasing slate of affairs. I'rohablv one of the most important was the inability of gra?ior# to got feed during the protracted drv spell, with the result that well-conditioned stock brought high prices. At this -period the yarding flucl.iliilml but Inking the totals for the year, tlmy wore oil'average with the previous twelve months, with tlio condition well up to expectations. , . The prospects for the future, according to reliable authorities, Miold Rood things."' 'store in the your jusMoutcrcd-upou. paring the next, few months prices (inner than tlio opening mouths of last year are anticipated to'ride. This is based on several -causes, including the very important fact that oiiilo a number of farmers wlio. have boon interested in' grazing .are forsaking it for dairying' pursuits,. This -will niitimilly bring about a sllorlngq of fat stock men. Just the. Opposite was the oxper/ence of those. inlsVcfllcd in MB. cattle. Prices nanc lower and lower through a shortage of feed, and to-day the level reached is lower than it has been for m.iny a'long day. A« to the future, everything wiU depend upon the •■•easons. If the' uututfln turns out wojl. prices for 'tore cattle .will fi'm up, but if not, the low prices ruling will continue to prevail until the spring.