CANTERBURY AGRICULTURE,

Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 36

CANTERBURY AGRICULTURE,

CFsoji Oira Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH. March I*. Although a great deal of harvest work vis done in last week's magnificent weather, -there was still some grain left out, mostly waiting for the threshing machines, when thowers again set in on Monday morning. The weather to-night looks like clearing, ».nd, as" the rainfall has not been much, . a lew hours' sunshine or a drying breeze .Would enable work to be resumed. Even the cocksfoot threshing was well advanced during the fine weather, a week ,more of which would practically clear up the Canterbury harvest. Everybody is talking of the prices at the &muri ewe fair last week. The general opinion is that the good sheep men, who bought the highest priced two-tooth halfbred ewes for which the Amuri is renowned, ipill do well with them, even if wool goes pack; also, that the high prices for store i,nd breeding sheep generally are due more to the abundance of feed than to the alleged depletion of flocks. The sale of the late William Boag's pedirree sheep, cattle, and horses to-day was argely attended. The quality and condi;ion of the stock were disappointing, but >uyers from all parts of the colony eomjeted with animation, and everything jrouglft extreme values. The well-known Border Leicester flock sold as follows : — fßams — four to eight-tooth, 3gs to 3igs, two-tcoth, 3igs to 3|gs; lambs, lags to i|2gs ; culls, f g and £g ; ewes — eight-tooth \Llgs to l£gs, six-tooth ligs to 2gs, fouritooth ligs to 3|gs, two-tooth l^gs to 2gs : lambs, Ig to 2gs. Shorthorn cows and tieifers, 9gs to 17 gs; bull calves, 13^gs to Is£gs. Clydesdale mares sold up to 90gs. |s?he imported Clydesdale stallion Border , Chief was passed in at the reserve bid of 299g5.