ASHBURTON.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13377, 19 March 1909, Page 8

ASHBURTON.

In' conversation with two Ashburton farmers our oorreßfldßdpß-', learned that since tho dry weatbcgjjJMffiH in the sheep and lambs havo remarkably'well, and fatteitring3Hfejj finitely better and quicker tlwn.JJfjß|| did previously. •'Tiicy are well," remarked one of thotsPfgj%fi masters, "on the Largo areas of - turnips and rape 4___ gone off very badly durin_ th£i]pi|| three weeks, and unless rain fa_ri9iJftJs the winter supply of feed ously affected. Light various parts of tho district oa;ThlnSgl day afternoon, but the fall u-*».i»iSsjH| ficient to freshen up the past_^es. H >jHjjE-| kale crops'are holding out much brigS? than the rape, * and have not" "J-SSBI nearly ■as badly injured as the _Bws Kalo is now grown much more-exuagt** sively than was the case a feV«*U?ijjj| back,. arid farmers are great valuo as feed for stock. .. TkS| are still a few crops of oats to bo «*Pfi? vested away towards tho bills, • nvfejil few more fine days will see it all !*W|l in stack. While the dry weather Jmb had the effect of drying up the $WH| tures, it has been most the grain which is in stack, apd tbliSg now threshing out remarkably wcJl.'^^gJ