CANTERBURY AGRICULTURE.
. (From Our Own Correspondent). Christch RCH, May 5. The weather for the last fortnight has been, on the whole, favourable, and farm work has been resumed in most places. Many stacks have bad to be pulted down and atooked to dry, but threshing and chaffcutting are now going on briskly again. Good oftt sheaf chaff is in active demand. Oats are steadily rising in price as their scarcity becomes more evident, and wheat is very firm, holders of good samples being careless about selling at present quotations. The abundance of feed has enlivened the store Bheep market and prices are, on the average, Is to Is 6d higher on the month, though much of this advance is accounted for by the natural increases in value during thepuriod. Fat sheep k«ep up well despite the extremely low price of frozen mutton in London. Gojd.freezers fetch fully 2d per lb here, besides ekius and fat, and this claas is very scarce. A large area is going into wheat., and no. doubt oats will also be gown extensively.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 31
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