FARMING TOPICS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 8

FARMING TOPICS

Cheaper Fencing Posts With totara porsts of any quality now costing about 4/- each, and concrete posts at times toward 3/- landed on farms, an alternative of a lower price is to be conSid Sueh is offered by birch posts from the Main Trunk. We have received Quotations from a reliable vendor tor red birch posts priced at £lO/5/- per 100 for six foot 6 inch x 6 x 4 inch posts, with li-hter poNts of approximately O x " m hes at £9/5/-. Split. S foot, Sx 8 meh strainers are quoted at 9/6, and ones of same proportions at 11/6. bpl’t battens are quoted lit. 20/- a 100. All at free on rail, Rangataua. A footnote reads: “These prices have been operating for two years, and are under review by the Price Tribunal, so we must expect them to be increased to cover costa increases. Noted Clydesdales Lost. Clvdesdale enthusiasts, and horse-lovers -enei-aliy, will regret, to learn of the recent loss at sea of a valuable shipment ot Clvdesdales, compriNing eight mares and fillies, and three geldings. They were bound from Scotland to Canada and the United Stilles, when their ship was torpedoed. These horses were shipped .by Mr. James Kilpatrick, of Craigie Mains. Kilmaruovk. Ot the mares, perhaps the best known was the beautiful Sealiam hf,.al Lady, got by Craigie Beau Ideal, many of whose stock are giving outstanding service iu Australia.