Cattle at Sheep Rates

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 14

Cattle at Sheep Rates

QISBOENE cattle, sold this week at prices which sheep were worth about three years ago. The highest price for store cows was 355, a figure farmers received for a store sheep three years ago. Heifers were no better. Bullocks sold from 32s to 60s and three-year steers from 34s to 455, prices that are not a great deal ahead of what sheep were worth before the slump.

This in only one aspect of the depression, but it has its compensations. Prices are so low that they can hardly decline further, or farmers would ho actually giving their stock away. Those buying in now, it would seem, could hardly expect to lose on their transactions. Someone, therefore, should reap a profit. At tho end of November, 1029, values for stock had started to doclino, but a glance at the Herald lilo of November 22 three years ago, shows in the store section ewes and lambs bringing up to £i 17s, hoggets to £1 6s 3d, and shorn wethers and ewes to £1 3s (id and £1 3s 9d respectively. Yet, on Tuesday, store cows sold from 15s to £1 15s, heifers from £1 to £L 15s, bullocks from £1 12s to £3, 3-year steers from £1 14s to £2 ss, 2-year steers from £1 4s to £1 os, and yearling steers from 15s to £1 Is.

Tho biggest factor in the decline was undoubtedly the uncertainty of tho weather conditions. The dry spell, with tho threat of a continuance, deterred farmers from placing any more stock on their already heavily stocked areas, and memories of a summer shortage of feed in the last two dry summers were still fresh. As a result, there were more sellers than buyers.

MR. C. D. LLOYD, tiie well-known VICTORIAN BREEDER, of the "Glen Iris" Jerseys, Caulfield, Victoria, uses SYKES’S DRENCH AND VETERINARY REMEDIES on his valuable animals because it is the best. Pie is a breeder of some note, nnd his example is worth following by all farmers. Try the SYKES METHOD of DRENCHING each cow after calving this season and note the result. Sykes’s Drench is sold everywhere at 1/6 packet, or 17/- dozen.*