THE MUTTON MARKET.
Though the' graziers cannot complain as to the present season's conditions being favourable for the fattening of stock, a justifiable ground for feeling dissatisfied with present market conditions would appear to exist. Since the opening of the season for fat lambs graziers have never known wfiere they were. The London market is increasingly unsatisfactory. Ttte price of frozen meat continues to steadily decline, with the result that a serious loss has been inflicted upon the buyers of store stock. At 'the present moment fat lambs can command the price which was given a few'weeks ago for stores. The decline in the mutton market has as a consequence hit the forward buyer somewhat hard. A large speculator—one of Wairarapa s shrewdest judges of the stock market —is at present lamenting that he did not defer his purchase of a line of five thousand wethers made some months ago until the present tirre, when he might have saved two shillings per head in additiop to feed consumed by the sheep. [
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3142, 20 March 1909, Page 4
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171THE MUTTON MARKET. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3142, 20 March 1909, Page 4
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