COUNTRY NEWS AND NOTES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12604, 21 September 1906, Page 9

COUNTRY NEWS AND NOTES.

(nay oxnt correspondents.)

THE WEATHER AM) THE CROPS The -weather in. the Aslhburton district oontrnuee delightfully fino. Sharp frosts are being experienced at night, but thie is rather an advantage, as a lot of garden work is being done, and ihe froet pulverises and -mellows down the. newly-turned-ovor coil. Many gardens are very bright and gay with a ■wealth of epring flowers, the willows are beautifully green, apple, pear, and plum trees are bursting into bud and blossom, and there ie great promiee ot an early and fruitful epring.

Oar Armai correspondent -writes:— The present eeaeon has been, perhaps, one of the beet ever known in this district for farm work of nil kinds. The spring crops are in, and the autumneown crops are coming away well. The preparation of land for turnipe. an 1 othor green crops i* also getting well under way. Saturday brought a coiJ eou'-wester, and a great <100 l of enow fell on the hills about Mount Torle?se. but little harm was done, although lambing fs now pretty general, lor Rome mvsteriotie reaeon, a farmor noar Sheffield has had nmctoen of his cwos drop dead lambs this week, ,1 weeve or two before their due time of lambing. After some wet weather, which the farmers welcomed with glee, the past three or four days in the Leeeton district hay© heon exceedingly line, with a few degrees of frost- in the early mornrags. Far mew arc exceedingly busy in {letting in oate and barley, and there i* every prospect of a much larger texeage of potatoes than in previous

/care. The cawing of wheat has prac uically terminatod, and the fine wea Aict now prevailing should soon ..hove pad<lociks ou. ITio jxjrcentage of larwbe in the Waikari district is over cent, per cent.