FENCES AT LEESTON.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7266, 28 January 1889, Page 3

FENCES AT LEESTON.

TO THE EDITOa OF THB PRESS. Stbv.—One cannot help remarking aa theydMve along the Leeston and Doyleston roM tbe grand crops and good land that you meet with on both aides of tbe road/and wn_* —~—* -» a 11 0? littl « farms. Bnt flow comes it that the farmers joining the nJabiroad allowtheir fences such a wild and broken state! Surely, Sir, they can afford a few battens tomendt-*eirfeiacc*aad hurdle* toplace in their gateways. But, no; youwillfind for a gateway two piec*> of barbed wire, one oiftbe top of the old gate posts and another about two feet from the ground, and the paddock growing forty boabels of wheat tothe acre. Then the fanner is thunder-truck because a driver of a large mob of sheep cannot keep Hie sheep on the roads, but most needs let them come under the wire to trample hw crops down. In another gateway a donNe-furrow plough stand* for a gate. I think, Mr Editor, that the farmers along the main road could not do better £aaeopr their neighbors from Irwell to the bridge, and there they will find good gates and weU kept fences. Trusting nay remarks will _«*bet__awaii__iaalwa*no*toagreat deal of trouble driving last week, I am * **" C. J. Scorr, Sheep dealer and diifer, Templeton.