Stock and Grain Notes.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 168, 21 July 1908, Page 5

Stock and Grain Notes.

Although the transactions m sheep have been limited m number during the past week, those few have been of a reassuring nature, for the healthy tone that was prevailing at the Otautau sale has been maintained since by those interested. Dealers have woke up from their slumbers and are anxious to operate again principally, for ewes and ewe hoggets. Enquiries are being daily received from the j north, and the feed is apparently ' holding out better than it was expected, notwithstanding the weather — - m fact^fats are the only class of sheep that do not seem to haye benefited, .which is strange m the face of the cabled reports of improved values of wool, crossbred having risen from 6% to 7£%. The beef market is firmer than and every line offering is* ™™ ger }% Bna PP ed ap at equal to 27s 6d per hundred, and m some cases even more. The Western District is rapidly being denuded of everything killable, but there are still soine hundreds of prime bullocks being held on to by the graziers east of Invereargill, who anticipate that they will be able to command famine prices m the early spring, and are creating a corner by buying cp every available turnip; , The store cattle market, however, still remains dull. There is a slight enquiry for well bred young steers, but not at vendors' reserves, which are prohibitive. Very forward bullocks are also saleable at from £6 ,10s to £8. but store bullocks are likely to get a set back, as owing to the floods m the Taieri, etc., some hundreds, we hear, are on the road for Southland. The oat market is quite lifeless, the export trade being practically nil. Nothing doing locally, but the nominal value f6r B grade is Is lOd to Is 10£ d f.o.b.