GOOD TIMES AROUND' HALCOMBE AND SANDON.
7.. ; Tho ■' district ;t(says-"oiir vFeilduig. correspondent)- has.'had . beautiful growing " weather for tho' last; w.eek or two'. The cows • 1 ?ard-rising in. toth'quantity, and'test at tho" local creamery, and the fanners say, their ■! ; rape crops have.novdr yielded-moro.feed- than , ■ ' they havo this.year, oven though the'dry spall 7 gave them: a bad; check'during'Janiiary-and February. The turnips rather lato, but prospects^.for,.feed :'are ; .go<jcL. There i» a- in oats for next senaonj-hnd maiiy-of; th«k> crbps':aro-quite . green <alr6a<ly,'' arid-; will; provide a' .succulent- - , bito'for. sheep,. where- turnips-have failed. - ' /Onr.iMnnawa'tu correspondent says that tho, diiirict in;the'region; of-Sandon'is looking cxoeptiorially hifte,.thoro being an 1 abundance;of feed,;a,nd in nearly'oycry farm, provision lias b&en mtt/lo for winter feed, which is nowwoll ■adVsn'cod.' Largo,consignments -of- chaff- are x'ptmrihg .'out' ofthe 'A't.':fcho ;stock • galea f yesterday., prices wero much' in accordance; with those;of tho-previous sales. ' •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 3
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