KEEP DOWN THE WEEDS.
' Travellers who have passed through certain' parts of that district have expressed the opinion to our. special Manawatii' representative that there are : certain classes of farmers who do not devote'miich attention to .keeping, their farms clean. .Whether this is through l scarcity of labour or other cause it' is hard to' say. ,Our representative, : while passing along a certain road, ' remarked : to a 'farmer accompanying'' hini"tMt tlji'"ground appeared to be well adapted' for 'the dock' industry. " Oil'," remarked the farmer, ."that is Maori land." But'.-, our''-representative pointed out that' the next- man's section, which-grew an infinitely better crop of.weeds,, was owned and occupied-.by a-white man.v So that it is hot only our dark-skinned Brothers that.er'r.in this.respect.; lt.isan easy matter for a farmer to keep, down docks, even'if he has to borrow a mob of his,neighbour's sheep for '.a .few dsys.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 89, 8 January 1908, Page 2
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144KEEP DOWN THE WEEDS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 89, 8 January 1908, Page 2
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