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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16227, 24 March 1917, Page 9

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'ARGENTINE MAIZE CROP ■:•*'■ RUINED. '; (Renter's Telegrams.) Received 5.5 p.m., March 23rd. BUENOS AIRES, March 22. It is officially announced that owing to drought and locusts about half the maize crop has been ruined. The net production is estimated at one and a half million tons. VICTORIAN PRODUCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable 'Assn.V MELBOURNE, March 23, Barley—Chevalier, 4s to 4s 3d; Cape, 3s to 3s Id. . Oats—Milling, Algerians, 2s 2s& to 2s 3£d; feed, 2e to 2s Id. , . Potatoes—£3 10s. OHRISTCHUROH RAM FAIR. " (Per Press Association.} CHRISTCHURCH, March 23. At the ram fair to-day, stud English lieicester rams made up to 70 guineas, Border Leicesters up to 40 gns, Southdowns to 33gns, Lincolns to lSgns, Ronmeys to 16Jgns, Shropshires to llgns, Corriedales to logns. CLEARING SALE AT HUNTER. Guinness and LeCren report having held a successful clearing sale at Hunter on Thursday last on account of Mr Frank - Brennan. Bidding was good, and every lot offered was sold at full market rates. The following were some of the principal sales:— Sheep.—6-tooth ewes 2Ss 3d, fat and forward lambs 20s lid, store lambs 14s lOd. cull lambs 6s 3d, rams 7s 6d. Horses.—Geldings, Syrs £3O 10s, £26, aged £l7, £lO, £4, yearling fillv £3 10s. Cattle.—Cows in profit £8 10s, £7 12s 6d, £7 10s, £7, calves £2s sd, bull £3. ' Implements and sundries.— Binder £26, drill £l7, plough £l3 15s, drav and frame £l3, harrows and bar £7 ss, buggy £6 10s, riding saddle £4 los. sacks 83d, 7*d. turnips" £4 2s 6d per acre, stacks oat sheaves £l4 ss, £6.