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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1921, Page 5

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AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. By Telcgra&b—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Sept. 29, 10 p.m. Sydney, Sept. 29. Oats.—Algerian feed 3$ 2d to 3s 3d; milling 3s 6d; white feed 3s 8d to 3s 9d. Maize.—Yellow 5» 4d to 5s sd; white 5s to 5s 3d. Potatoes.—Tasmanian £6 to £9; Victorian £4 to £7. Onions.—Victorian £5 to £5 10s. Adelaide, Sept. 29. Oats.—Algerian feed 2s 4d, for shipment in parcels. STRATFORD MART. T. LAMASON’S WEEKLY REPORT. Last Saturday my usual weekly sale was held. Only a fair amount of poultry was penned, and there was only a small yarding of other lines. Good poultry, hens and chicks, and ducks, are in very good demand Quotations are as follows: Hens 2s 6d to 3s M, good lines 3s «d to 5s Cd; filets 5s to 7s: roosters 3s to ss; ducks 3s 6d to ss; hens and clicks 12s to 18s; turkeys 8s to 10s, gobblers 12s 6d to 15s, baled hay £4 10s per ton; milk carts £l2 to £3O; wheat Us bushel, oats, feed ss, seed 5s Gd io 6s Gd; chaff 170 s. sack 7s 6d; potatoes 13s; pollard 28s. CAMBRIDGE HORSE FAIR. At Cambridge the Farmers’ Co-op. Auctioneertng Corapsny, M., held their annual spring horse fair, and yarded 743 horses of all classes. The entry consisted of 143 unbroken. 402 heavy and medium drafts, and 193 light horses. The unhrokens, drafts and farm horses were a Sue lot, but the light class was very floor. Buyers were represented from all parts of New Zealand, and we ha < a most successful sale. The top price realised for heavy drarts was £7l for a gelding on account of Mr. J. J. Baynes, Rukuhia. and £7O for a gelding on account of Mr. Jno. Fislv-r. Cambridge. Heavy drafts made from £45 to £55, medium drafts £32 to £3B, useful farm horses £2B to £32, spring cart sorts £l5 to £22 10s, buggy homes £lB to £24, good hacks £25 to £32, ponies £4 to £B, aged hacks £4 to £O, unbroken 3 and 4-year heavy drafts £25 10s to £3O 10s, unbroken medium drafts £lB to £22 10s. unbroken spring cart horses £lO 10s to £l5 10s, unbroken light horses £8