FARMING NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1922, Page 7

FARMING NOTES.

The demand for lamb s has fallen off in the Waikato. Breeding ewes are still saleable.

Sheep fell about 5s per head in Waikato owing to the sudden decline in export quotations.

Two young Hereford cross dairy cows, with calves thrown m, were sold in Masterton yesterday at £1 19s each.

A Hereford bullock which was sold for about £4 at Masterton yesterday was purchased as a calf four years ago for £7 10s.

A Wairarapa farmer bought 1100 wethers in December at 9s. A few days ago he himseii purchased the 100 culls for 15s 6d.

Practically all the crops on the East Coast have been got in, not without a good deal of damage from rain.

A Mauriceville settler brought some bullocks into Masterton a fortnight ago and bought them in at £4 15s. Yesterday the same animals m equally good, condition were passed in at £3 ss.

Waikato reports state that competition for beef i s dull. The demand for stores is very easily satisfied, and considering the value of the finished article this is not to be wondered at. Raising and grazing cattle must be unprofitable until better prices are assured for beef.

There is very little wool left in the sheds in Wairarapa now. Almost all of thi® season’s clip has either been sold or will be offered on Friday, and last season’s clip is also disposed of. The only obstacle now in the way of a free market is the B.A.W.R.A. residue, in Great Britain and oversea.