BEST RAPE COUNTRY.
■ A • RICH WAIRARAPA SECTION. - \- Tlie best rape country in the Wairarap is : a- 400-acro block at the confluenco/of tlf Riia'mahanga and Taiieru rivers in ' tho ,T Whiti district.' The floods of years hav produced here a ricli:river loam with a dept .of about eight feet, with a natural draihag which ' keeps the land •; moist in the ,dr, woather, and yet'not too wot in the rain season. The result has'been record crops c rape and turnips year .in and,year out. Las season the owner, Mr. II; Morrison, of Blaii logie, Masterton, fattened 7000 lambs on th .place;: this year'the"'area is described as veritable' gold mine.: Mr, Morrison is enable to fatton several thousand of lambs, whicl: owing to the state of the 1 season,, give him much 'larger profit th.aii in previous yean There aro about 100 acres under fapej whic was, eaten down by lambs last month, an which .two weeks' later' had grown up to, heijjht .of cipjht inches. Practical farmer (writes ,our; AVairarapa • ■ correspondent). ,ar unanimous in the opinion that this cro stands by itsolf in- tho district.*
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 3
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183BEST RAPE COUNTRY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 140, 7 March 1908, Page 3
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