HIGH STOCK PRICES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 108, 30 September 1914, Page 2

HIGH STOCK PRICES.

lit*: JX BJiEtT Fuiifil-ilKilX/W'ED. j v/o'i'ijOOii^.. "Dry weather h> a;t uli t«ane.* scrioua, and especially <m ui.„ toaaj \ie ieu.it a guou uciii greater u....n ou.Vi.er coasts, i _ ''.' saiiHi time wo mave ueen inJinitel} better on u,..n m Huwaces Bay or iu the South, \witre tuey have had piactk illy no jam .., not ALiy, lor wo Had rain up to about si. v weeks ago," was the stalenitiit iii.nl,. to a Ju,..iuaKtoii iSorih standard I'tpoiU'i- by a geuUewtra acquainted with the position miring the lourse of an initi".:cit ieeeiiUj. lie went oa to slate uai i;u.c,-« tii- wuilher change,i into good sp.i/ig weather, tlie croita wou:tl >mlcr Vciy ;iului'ja.iy. ISo lar the dry w earner lias nut aii'ccted ulio price oi stock bat, it w-j, 4 stated, thtire is every indication uhat prices lor sheep are gow to be veiy high, provided, ot course, it could, Ibc made certain that thero would, 'be a sutikiiirt mun'biir of boats available to uiKe produce ■llouiio .when the killing season commenced.

"The- price of beef is going to bo almost prohibitive," coiitimtud the genllehian. "This week in Uaiiedni pi'ivti inade up to iSOs per Itli), and at Joiinsonville over -life, a.nd it is quite impossible for the Imliiheivj of 'this town to con,tireitc scfeg .beef at thtir roccnt retail rr'ccs. It siimpiy means ruin."' "A rise cmist come," be continued in answer to a query. .Mutton, it was considered, would aU-oihe dearer.

ltegar,l;;ng wool, lai'iiu-ir* could look for slightly lower price:; ow-iik* to the dosing of a large nmnber of. factories m' die. Continent; but the draiuiitd for 'clothing generally, especially if the war enters into a wiiuter'campiugn, must to a' certain extent keep up the tM-ceu for o»r coarse wools,.

When (ho war broke, out the stock mar.kM-fell flat, but since then .prim had recovered, and there was every reawon they would continue. An effect of the war 'had boon to restrict operations in luii'!, and there was little selling taking place.

CROW SLIGHTLY JUOKWARD.

rii'iiiirii.v, were made in another direet)on regarding tins ~u.te oi croips, and a reporter was' informed i>!iat the. dry weather had been r.'.-nroiHile ior making the cropa backward.' Very Httlci rain, however, wa* required to iiring tbim on. It is anticipated that big crops of turnips and riviH! will 4x> sown, aiud the ntanagcrof one big ioeal seed firm states that never beforu has his firm sold such large mwntitiea of seed in the sprinw. From this it -would appear that in;iny farmer aro guing to raise fat sfod;. A great many farmery* are following Mr J. G. (Wilson's advice, to get in'plenty of 'Wheat,

IX OTIlfcH PLACES. A Wairarapa buik-htir states thai the '[•rieo of fat bullocks is .now just dooMe what it was ten wears ago." The price of beef will from now on, show a continued increase, a.s there is a scarcity of cattle all over the world. On the otlnir hand, there is every probability that iamb will be cheaper this Season than it w.v last ve;'.r

There is a scarcity of fat cat tie in the, 1 lasting district, and butchers are at their wits'en 1 to km>w where to procure si-vdi-v. I'riens are exceptionally high, and a majority of stock tinds its way to the frci zing works.