FEILDING NOTES.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 156, 26 March 1908, Page 2

FEILDING NOTES.

A remarkable change: has followed the lata . rainfall; (says the "Fcilding- Star's'" Bunnythorpa correspondent). The grass can almost be seen 'growing.- i' ■■■-.. V Mere than twenty-five settlers have applied ; to .the Knvitea County Council for rabbit poison. < ' i Mr ; M'lntyrc holds an optimistic view-.of the . results of the bush ,'fires in . the . back blocks near the Ruahme Ranges. Onjhis own farm, of some GCO" acres,- ■about;'.a'; : ?ixth 1 had' been swept'clear of,^grass, caijsmSv 3 loss of about os. an acre in ; feed, but increasing the value of the land by . £1 an'.acre— : everything-■ had-boeri so well nlcaried lip. - . ■ Notwithstanding, the fact :that; there 'have: -.- been four or. five days'- rain in. the Feilding district,:the watercourses-have shown hardly any appreciable increase iii flow, River has risen a- little,' but -that is, onba&l count of its running through'.'a mountainous country, before reaching Feilding. But-'thf Makino Stream has' not yet' shown..a,disColouration of;the usual summer trickle.'\The dryness of the ground after the long spell and 'tli'o i stea'dincss : with .which' the rain- 1 fellvac- ~ nnunt for'' the > way.'.ill jwhich > the water has been soaked up. jiWith fairly warm weather continuipg, grass should ,