GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2198, 10 July 1914, Page 10

GENERAL FARMING NEWS.

Stock buyers from outside district", liave been, busy m the Masterton distuct for sotno weeks'past. buying sheep and cattlo (saje an exchange) In a gieit many instances buyers havo l)ppn unablo to fulfil orders on ing to tho good demand which' has existed for many months past. The demand has been so substantial in chaiacter that even second-class sheep are being pmchasod at prices muiii in advance of anything before attained in Mastorton tor this class of. stock.

The high prices for fat stock ami the scarcity of gootl steer calves is causing miners in tho Stratford distnct to/turn their attention-to a ,niore smtablo bull than the Jersey, and it looks as if the Sluuthorn will again come into favour exchange). 'In a herd where the Jnsey has been kept it has'been tho custom to only tear tho heifers. 'These have.now become too plentiful, whilst thero is a gieat shortage of Shorthorn steer calves.

i A Masterton farmer informed a "Dally Times" leporter that ho o\pcct-e-1 tho price for sheep to bo very Jiijs'b in Masterton during-the coming season There Mould, ho thought, be considorable scarcity of stock—in fact, many laimeis had recently practically cleared their farms, this beiii<; brought about bj tho good prices which have ruled.

The New Zealand, Lincoln Sheep Bleeders' ' Association has decided to send an exhibit to the Panama Exposition.

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