Eailwaymen at all stations along the Main Trunk are now exceedingly busy loading up trucks of wool and fat stock, and some very valuable consignments of the latter are going forward to the freezers. Feilding alone in four weeks sent over £40,000 worth of wool and fate away, and was still sending heavy consignments. 'During the past four weeks £20,000 worth of wool has teen sent away from Hurrterville, apart altogether from big truckings of sheep and lambs. Of the latter one flockmaster sent away over 800 within a couple of days, and it is stated that ■the sheep industry ie responsible for an output representing close on £25,000. Mr. J. E. Vernon, or Palmerston North, •who has just returned from the Old Country, has had something interesting to say concerning British agriculture. England, he said, had experienced one of the best summers, but there was not the amount of sunshine experienced in the Old Country as in the 'Dominion. The farms he saw Mr. Vernon described a3 very good, and the methods pf agriculture were by no means antiquated, ac some would have «s -believe. They »Te different from those of New Zealand— that wae all. It had to be remembered that English and Scottish .people'were dealing with an entirely different soil,, J climate, and from New Zealand farmers, and hence the different system of farming.
Wolfe's Schnapps is suitable .alike for men and women, and is in everr sense beneficial.—^Ad^
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Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 January 1914, Page 9
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