NEWS AND NOTES.
JOTTINGS FOR FAKSIEBS,
Tho Californian thistle, which, up till now, lias been generally regarded as a very undesirable noxious weed, is proving "exceedingly valuable to iarmers in Hawke's Bay this season as the sheep are feeding ou them. -Air o. P Donnellv has expressed his intention of sowing 4000 acres with this thistle, and says ho will pay lor all tbe teed he can get.
'•Thero is not a Wade of green grass within a. hundred miles of • :Na P l€r *, was the statement made hy Mr J. - • Smith, who is visiting Wellington at present with a team of bowlers, ue states that- tho season lias boon the dryest in tho rn.cm.orv of the oldest inhabitant of the district. There have been light showers of rain at rare intervals, hut they havo Been s;o hgbt that tho high drying winds which iotlowed lapped up the moisture boioro it had a chance to reach the ground. of all kind put in months ago had failed to cerminate. and oven the grassseed planted on tho Itowling green and ; artiticiallv watered, had not corao to j fruition to tho extent of more than o \ per cent., owing to the entiro Jack or i moisture in the soil. Strange to tsay, I whilst Napier aud Gisborne are buffering from drought, tho West Coast of the North Island has been faring very well. Mr J. Marks, of El-ham, states that tho country round l_ltham is lookiug exceptionally well just- now, after the queerest season over known in the district- For weeks and weeks they experienced nothing hut a- _cr.es of. or one continuous gale, entirely without rain, and things looked verybad, but in December good rains fell, and thero was good feed pretty well throughout Taranaki. It was anticipated that this year's output 0-*"but-ter and cheese was going- to create a new rocord, but, according to a local butter merchant, the estimate was slightly under the quantity exported last year.
"You can tell the Department of Agriculture, from mc." said Mr J. H. Coleman, .at the Hawke's Bay A. and P. Society's meeting on Friday, in discussing tho harm dono by blackberries, "that unless some active steps aro taken to eradicate blackberries, I will Jive long enough.to see tho whole of New Zealand aJTccted.''
NEWS AND NOTES.
Press, Volume LI, Issue 15173, 11 January 1915, Page 4
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