FARMING ON THE TARARUAS.
: Right; on , the 'top of the, Tarania. Rauga v (writes,;our travelling, correspondent)ir tlio road crosses, there is a-cheese factory. • It seems at first-gight to bo. out oj.'praeo, .hut -I am there' js .'somij ->ei^"fcip v ,ing' land 'on' tho top .of tlio' Range,' and;, eery tainly when I went' over'there was anabund- J arice of /grass.;. Tlieso. lands 'at „;lhe 'fooi'vpf the Tararuas arc','grand; dairying "districjis-: Ballonop, tMakomako,: Nik%u, and'Mariijja—• ■ andv.vrith such a grass , country as .' this, ~of ; course there is plenty.of hay. X.hiiyb seen somo.very fine crops'about;Mak'omako..:;..AlJ i are' being saved in ideal weather, • tb'owgt even in. this favoured country, the fa'rfl>cr» say a few showers't.wpuld bo. acceptably..!.!: • tho last few' years, t whon\ sea?oiii .were, so wet and cold, it was a difficult.'matter to ripen an oat orop : hqre...'.Eveiv/'non , they'arc,quito.green, but this weather';will very soon make them L 'fit ;: for. the, : binder.';..;. .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 97, 17 January 1908, Page 2
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