MANAWATU NOTES.
. A dairy iproduco grader, interviewed at Palmerston North,' told, our Manawatu corrospbrident that a marked- improvcmciit' has boen ' effected' in - the : 'grading along the c0a15t..... ; : .-.. .-. , ■_ Iteports generally . indicato an. alarming : falling-off in the fpilk supply right along tho coast.' . Creeks. ha'v(>: practically, dried up, and : feed, is. getting very scarce.- The effect of. the' drougnt;is noticed upon;the rape and turnip, crops, which are beginning to nave, a withered'appearance. .-Farmers.' in 'all directions.-, aro,crying !out. for .rain.' ''■ At, the' Feildmg Stock Sales ,to-day .there -was a large ciitrv and, a good attendance, but practically lio dbmand on account ,of drought.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 104, 25 January 1908, Page 3
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