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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 483, 5 September 1899, Page 2

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The Waikato Argus Office, Monday. MR W. J. HUNTER'S CAMBRIDGE HORSE SALE. Mr W. J. Hunter reports of his special horse sale, held at Cambridge, on August 31st and September Ist, that it was a record one, the class of horses being first-class, Weeds were conspicuous by their absence. The attendance was not unusually large, but those present were nearly all buyers or sellers, who wished to replace horses ; consequently, a brisk sale ensued. Buyers were in attendance from Woodville, Whangarei, Auckland and all Waikato districts. Some firstclass draughts made £36 to £37 and up to £4O, which was obtained for a splendid animal, bred and owned by Mr Alf. Main., junr. ; light harness and good hacks, were also well represented and realised good prices ; £2B being given for a real good spring cart horse from Graham Bros., Te Puke ; hacks made up to £2O. I also sold privately a seperior draught entire colt, about one and a-half year-old, on behalf of Mr D. Caley, jun., of Pukeritru, Waikato, to Mr G. McKay, cf " Ferry Farm," Waipu, at a very satisfactory price. This colt had splendid flat bone, grand quality of hair and kindly head, and should be an acquisition to the North. He was got by Better Times, out of Bonnie, by Bonnie Prince, out of Fan by Nugget. The prices were a 3 follows : —First-class heavy draughts, £32, £36, £3l and up to £4O ; medium do , £2O to £29 10s ; good hacks, up to £l6 ; spring cart horses, £l2 to £2B ; weeds, 10s to 30s ; unbroken draughts, from £l3 to £2O 10s ; light colts, £8 to £l4 10s.

MESSRS McNICOL & GO'S. SPRING CATTLE SALE.

Messrs McNicol and Co. Report.— At our annual Cambridge Spring cattle sale on Saturday last we yarded 450 very choice cattle, and with the exception of a few dairy cows all were cleared at satisfactory prices, well-bred steers, one to two-year-olds, being especially in great demand. The 100 grown bullocks from the Thames Valley Land Company were a well-bred lot, in very forward condition, and made the following prices: £5 12s, £5 9s, £5 14s, £5 17s, £5 16a, £5 19s, £5 13s, £6 ss, and £6 5s ; fresh empty cows from the same place made £3 2s ; fresh empty cows and heifers from Scott Bros., £1 19s, £2 10s and £2 15s ; three-year-old steers, £4 3s ; two-year-old steers, £2 15s to £3 5s ; two-year-old heifers, £2 53 ; yearling steers, 35s to 15s ; yearling heifers, 31s ; calves (mixed sexes), 21s to 32s ; heifers, 35s to 37s 6d ; dairy cows, backward, £3 to £4 ; a good line of hoggets from Thos. Freeman, of Lichfield, 8s 6d ; longwool wethers from J. Wallis, lis 2d. AUCKLAND MARKETS.

Messrs Donald and Edenborough's Weekly Report.—Potatoes, £2 to £2 10s ; pumpkins, 3s 9d to 4s Cd ; kumaras, 4s 6d to 5s 3d ; onions, prime 3s to ss, other lots unsaleable ; oats, Is 8d to Is lOd ; maize, 2s Od ; fowl wheat, 2b Bd. Butter : Taranaki rolls to 10|d, bulk 9d, dairy 8d to 9d, farmers' keg sJjd to 7d, pastry 4d to 5d ; eges, 6d to 7Jd ; bacon, 5d to 6}d ; hams, sid to 6Jd. Fruit : Dessert apples 12s 6d to 13s 6d, cooking 10s 6d to 12s 9d, lemons, market overstocked, 2s to 3s 9d, Poor Man's oranges 7s 3d to 9s, peanuts 2£d to 2Ad, walnuts sid. Poultry : Table roosters 2s to 2s sd, other Is 6d to Is 10d, hens Is Id to Is 81, ducks 2s 3d to 2s 9d, turkey cobbers 4s 6d to 6s 3d, hens 2s Sd to 3s 5d ; dressed pork, 3|d to 3id. Mr J. Jones' Weekly Report.— Poultry, Roosters Is 6d to 2s 5d ; cockerels, Is 6d to Is 8d ; ducks, Is 9d to 2s 4rl ; Hens, Is 5d to Is lid ; turkey gobblers, us 6d to 7s ; hens, 2s 3d to 3s ; pigs, 7s 6d to lis !Jd each ; butter, 6.U1 to 7&d; rolls, 7d to Hhd ; eggs, Gd to 7d ; chsesc, 3;Jd to IJd"; honey 2 l d to 3d; sections, 3s 3d to 33 6d ; bacon, aides, 51 to 6'd , hams, 6d to 5d to 6.-jd ; middles, 4hl to 5d ; shoulders, 3|d to 4d lb ; roll hams, 6d to 6]d ; lard, 4d: keg butter, market glutted: potatoes, 2s to 2-15 d ; kidney, 2s 5d to 2s lOd ; bruce, 2s 5d to 23 101; onions, 3s to 4s ; pumpkins, 4s to 3s lOd ; kumaras, 4s to ss; carrots, 18s to £1 5s ton ; melons, 3s 6d to 4s 9d each ; dressed pork, 3d to 3-Jd ; oats, Is 8d to 2s ; bran, £3 10s ; sharps, £4 2s; maize, 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; wheat, 2s 3d to 2s 5d : chaff. £2 to £2 7s 6d ; lemons, 3s to 4s 6d case, dried apples, 4d to 4sd ; walnuts, 4d to oranges, 3a to 4s 6d- ease ; poorman's 4s 6d to 5s 3d.

Meshu3 Richard Aiithur and Co.'s Weekly Report.—Business during the week has been good :—Southern tabic potatoes, £2 5s to £2 10s ; onions £3 to £5, prime sample £6 to £7 ; kumaras, £4 10s to £5 ; pumpkins, £4 ; chaff, £2 to £2 5s ; oats, Is 7d to £1 8s ; maize, 2a 58 to 2s 7d ; whoat, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; bran, 3s 9d to 4s ; sharps, 4s to 4s 3d ; walnuts, 4Jd to 5d ; lemons, 3s to 6d ; large supplies of fresh cut vegetables to hand, realising high prices ; fresh butter Bjd to IOJd, keg butter 4d to s£d ; fresh eggs, 6d to 6fd ; Canterbury bacon, 6kl to 6fd ; do. hani3, 7Jd ; local bacon, 4Ad to 6d ; do. hams, s£d to 63d ; young pigs, 7s to 10s 6d ; honey, 3d to 4d lb ; table roosters la lOd to 2a od, fowls Is 6d to 2b, special strain 2a lid to 3s 3d, ducks Is lid to 2s 7d, geese 2s to 2s 6J, turkey gobblers 6s to Bs, do. hens 2s 9d to 3s 6d.

Messes Alkx. Aitkkn (Limited) Report.—There was very little alteration in market prices .to-day. Produce consignments were larger than usual, but prices are still far from satisfactory. Potatoes and onions are very slow of sale. Frisco onions by mail steamer arrived in grand condition to a poor market. Keg butter is ic great demand; we want 100 kegs prime stuff at once. Factory butter is very firm, and dairy pats sell freely. Eggs in full supply. Flax is worth £IS in Sydney if of good clean quality, specially bright lines will realise more ; we require any quantity. Fruit is scarce and dear, excepting lemons. American apples arrived in grand order, and sold well. Poultry realising splendid prices and rising. Small piys still firm at hiyh rates 1 . Pork is much weaker and declining. The lollowing are the prices : Potatoes, locals, '2os to 355; Oamaru Derwents, 30a to 4os ; new kidueys, £1 lb; teed potatoes, Dei-went, 50s ; Early Hose, £'A 10i ; kumaras, (is per cut; onions, -Is to 6s for prime ; Frisco, Ills ; garlic, 2£d lb; pumpkins, Is lid cwt ; carrots, white, 20s to 'lda; cabbages, Is lid to 3s doz; cauliflowers, Is to 4s Oil doz ; celery, Is to 7s do/.; oats, ex store, Is 9id ; maize, •2« 5d to 2s 6d ; bran, £'.'> )s>» ; siuup3, £',i 15s ; chaff, new, £2 to £2 7s 6d, firmer ; butter, prime dairy, 8d to fid, wanted ; milled, ijd to 7d ; factory rolls, choice, l(.)d ; hulk, 8d to \)\d ; medium dairy, Qil lo (id ; keg.;, prime, (i I to GUI ; medium, '-Id to 5d ; egg:.;, 6d to (j|d ; bacou CJd, farmers' yd to Ud ; hams 7Jd, farmers' od to 7d, even numbers 6M to 7d ; cheese 41d to 5Jd, farmers' Id, wanted ; honey, bulk 3d, sections 3s (id, wanted ; lemons 2d to 3d per dozen, 2s 9d to 3s 9d case, plentiful ; bananas ljd lb, Is lid to 2s (id bunch ; pineapples, 9s to 10d Od case ; orauge.j (Island) 3a Gd to 4s case. 4d to 8d doz. ; Apples, American 14s to 15a case, Tasmanian 9s Od to lis 0d ; maudaiiuo 6b 9d

to 10a, seuonds 6s Gd to 7s 61 ; walnuts, to sd, slow ; peanuts, 2d ; charcoal, 28 9d to 'is. Poultry : Good demand. Supply below requirements ; roosters Is 9d to 2s 9d each, small Is Gd to Is 6d, hens la 7d to 2s, ducks 2s to 2s Cd, rising, turkey roosters 3s 6d to 5a 9d, poor lot, hens 2a 7d to 3s Gd, geese 2s 6d to 3s ; pigs, pood torts, 10s to 15s 9d, in fair supply ; pork, 2d to 3d. NEW ZEALAND DRUG COMPANY'S MANURES. Kempthoene, Prosskr & Co. s (Now Zealand Drug Company Limited) Westfield Manures Price List, season 1898 : Per ton

"A" Superphosphate (total phosphates, 40 per cent, ; soluble, 32/34 per cent. ; ammonia, U percent.) £5 10 0 "B" Superphosphate (total phosphates, 31 per cent. ; soluble, 26 per cent.), 2cwt, sacks 4 S 0 !i C " Superphosphate (total phosphates, 4G per cent.; soluble, 1") per cent.), 2cwt. sacks 4 15 0 Bonedust. (pure), green G 15 0 Boncdust (pure), steamed ... 615 0 'Bonedust and Blood G 5 0 Special Root Manure .. ..700 Special Grass Manure ' A ' (for top dressing) G 15 0 Special Grass Manure ' B ' (for "permanent pasture) .. .. Gls 0 Special Potato Manure 7 0 0 Special Turnip Manure .. G 15 0 Special Rape Manure .. .. Gls 0 Special Corn Manure ' A ' (for green feed) G 15 0 Special Corn Manure ' B ' (for wheat, oats, barley, etc.) .. 615 0 Special Maizo Manure ' A ' (for green feed) .. .. ..700 Special Maize Manuro ' B ' (for cob maize) ... .. ..700 Special Orchard Manuro ' A ' (for young trees) .. .. 710 0 Special Orchard Maunre ' B ' (for fruit formation).. ~ 7 10 0 Special Clover Manure,. .. 615 ( Special Onion Manure.. .. 7 10 0 Special Sugar-beet Manure .. 8 10 0 Sulphate of Ammonia .. .. 14 0 0 Coral Queen Guano, 2cwt. sacks, 63 percent, phosphate of lime 4 15 0 Surprise Island Guano, 2swt. sacks (47 per cent, phosphate of lime) 3 5 0 Kainit, original sacks about 1 cwt 4 7 6 Per cwt. Nitrate of Soda (original sacks about 2cwt.) 14 0 Muriate of Potash (original sacks about 2cwt.) 16 0 Sulphate of Potash, original sacks about 2cwt 16 0 Sulphate of Iron, original sacks about 2cwt 10 0