CENERAL FARM NEWS.
. '/For ■ the/last;'twelyo' years ' or ./more / (writes ;our trayelling correspondent) a, largo ,swarm of bees.-'has been located under tho roof;of Mr/; Wybburno's house at AVhenUakura. They ■ must be bfia'very'peaceable character; as it ..is-rarely:;that anybody is : stung. / t ' " ;Eviderice.s, aro' seen'- ori all. sides, about: the South' Taraniiki coast-line of the disastrous naturo of the salt . spray-laden' winds , which • swiep- in from ' the, Taranaki bight/ This seems'' to ho a' very ; - rem a rk'abl o 'thing, as 1 it only'affMts " a comparatively narrbw/ belt. One -sees'.'the first- faint signs-.; of. l it' ..near; Turakina,' and'-it'extends northwards about Hawera. - Nothing in'. ; tho sh3i» i of. -ordinary' ' vegetation ''can'stand 'it. -Pines; macrocar|ias, : 'gum's,; and even gorse fertces aro killed.: •After a. " salt spray !! ' the ;trees look ,as if they .'had 'been scorched by •fire. ; .If may :bo amount''o'f, salt ; in-.the foeditig ,propertios : ' bf ,the grasses is to/a'certain ex-r tentresponsible f. for, tho-/, quality-of • stock ..which is .produced in'these : coastal," districts.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 3
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159CENERAL FARM NEWS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 3
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