HIGH PRICES OF SEED
'!AJ3NORMAL UvCIUSASES SHOWN. ..' The position of the seed market just „ now is abnormal (states a Christchurch /. correspondent). Inquiries go to show •■•'that at present thcro is jusfc about suf- . "iicient imported grass seed to meet re(juiroments until the iiew crops come' "in, and that' farmers: tvlio intend sowing down.this spring -will have to pay ,•, Lig prices. Thoso farmers who can viafford to do. so aro delaying their sow- * wing until the autumn; At tho niomont . ,;.;-tlie; prices :of practically all grass and clovof somls—with tlio'exception of red • clover and cewgrass—are very much ""above the normal rates. - A few com- ' parisons will illustrate tliis point, the T;best quality seed only being dealt with'. ' -White clover has been sold in whole- - ..6alc lots—not ictail—as higli as £200 « per ton, which works oiit at a Shade '•■ over. 2s. 4d. por lb. Tho average price recent years has been anything /'from £80 to £100, or, .say, from 9d. to ~ fi llb. per lb. Cocksfoot has been sold this 6oason at Is. 3d. per lb. .'.for heavily dressed 161b. or 171b. seed, in past years similar seed has '-been sold at about 3d., and in the days as low as 2id. or 2}d. per' -lb. Of course, those days are unlikely " to occur again, but tho Is. 3d. may be . placed in tho same category with re"v, card to ryegrass. A very large quantity • been imported from tnc United and has been sold at 7s. 6d. iSto Ss.,per bushel for heaviest weights. ' '-Tho normal value of similar seed is in' - tho neighbourhood of 3s. 6d. to 4s. per "bushel for the New Zealand-grown ■ '"article.
V .'A record milk yield for one heifer S>f any breed of the age has been constituted by Mr. -F. S. M'Rae's Jersey .heifer "Mere," -which Las just com•ploted her semi-official record -under ■Government test. This heifer comI'inenoed her tost at the age of 1 year :345 days, and has returned 12,1641b. 'of milk, yielding 663.641b. of butterIfat in 365 days. ' , * " Tho immense areas of some of the ;eattle runs in tho northern part of Australia wero referred to ,in an in--.terview by Mr. D. long, secretary of tie Auckland Farmers' • Freezing Company, who has returned to Auckland from a visit to Australia. One company; he said, ran stations in the Northern Territory totalling 40,000 square miles, or about 26,000,000 acres. jkVwas evident from this and other "cases of a'similar nature that there -was abundant confidence in tho futuro of'the'frozen beef business in the •Northern Territory.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2875, 13 September 1916, Page 8
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419HIGH PRICES OF SEED Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2875, 13 September 1916, Page 8
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