CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL NEWS
(From Our Own Correspondent.) Ashdurton August 17. After a long spell of dry weather rain set in on Tuesday. A good deal has fallen in 6ome localities, scarcely any in others. The fine weather enabled farmers to make such progress with sowini that a few days' rain is welcome rather than otherwise. The rainfall dining the winter mtrath3 was far below the average. The springs are very low and the wells still dry. In most parts of tho countiy the sheep market seems in a yery precarious position. The numbers .offered in the various markets are much above the average for this time of year, freezers excepted. Buyers are languid for all descriptions, and prices have a downward tendency. Large qunntities aro being bought outside Canterbury for the Islington works, to the detriment of local suppliers, and prices must fall here to the level of other districts. There are very few freezer?, however, in Canterbury at present. The Islington works are putting through 2(100 daily ; while Belfast, which does not buy, is not running nearly full power.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 21
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180CANTERBURY AGRICULTURAL NEWS Otago Witness, Issue 2008, 18 August 1892, Page 21
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