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WEALTH WASTING.

COCKSFOOT SEED BY THE ROADSIDE. M,,At Mount.iMarchant,v2ooo;.feot,upioi!i«tho:! i! ' I'ukotois (writes:' Our.. travelhng .^correspond-. ent),? thore; is >■ splendid; limestone - country,-.■ Tall: about, grass! l This locality; is -full iof . it;; beautiful green paddocks- everywhere."l> : was nuich surprisod to see the.spleMid docks- :. foot , all alongside the roads going -to -wi>ste. ■■ •. Thore must l)o scores of pounds- worth to . 1 be had . tor the cutting. • . It: carries |tood-' looking- 'seedp, too.. svAti the pricoat-, which 1 -. cocksfoot will..sell,-.this--scason;-y aimattoao-' - .qua\nted with;the crass,seeding-could- iaejly -v. .earn a pound or: T only saw; one case where a' little had been - . cut. There must be cartloads to bo had for the * cutting. It•:shows how scarce -labour must bo wlinn such aWaluablo 'sourcft .of .income is allowed; to go, to. waste;, ;I.toldi one man about it;-and, nfest day :he sot. off .with i. tho intention .of.,cutting, a aa ho has n lot of, patches, to^sow.Thororifi. a lftlgo area of beautiful land on itlie Piikotois, on the Pori Road; ,ploughal)lo']andj toojv in ~ good-sized patches, and rich so|l,v admirably adapted for rape- and suppose the land: is too new , for mu'oh. ? stumping, as.-1, only., saw; very,, small which have been cleared. , ' . -

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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 2

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WEALTH WASTING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 2

WEALTH WASTING. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 106, 28 January 1908, Page 2

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