JOTTINGS FOR FARMERS.
A good shearing performance took placo on Saturday last at Messrs Armitago Bros.'s shed, Ethelton. Throe shearers sliore 450 four-tooth mixed wothers and hoggets by Boon. The lowest tally was 119. Tho recent wet weather, while bringing on grass and crops and assisting turnips and rape, in tho Oxford district, has hampered hay and shearing operations. It has been found difficult to' get in the hay, and much time has been lost in the shearing sheds. The cold snap of a few days ago caused a great fatality among newly-shorn sheep. Some farmers are complaining (writes our Waiau correspondent) that the grass-grub is attacking the mangold crops, and in some cases causing the crops to bo re-sown. The grub cuts through the root of the young plants, destroying them. This is unfortunate, as hitherto mangolds were looked on as being immune against disease or blight, and though they entail" a lot of labour, they have been planted fairly extensively on the heavier class of lands, farmers finding them of great feeding value for all kinds of 6tock in the winter.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14237, 28 December 1911, Page 10
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