PLOUGHS AT WORK.
TAKING NO CHANCES
■ Fa rmers-. have, been, and still are, taking full advantage of: the ; solelidid season, fot ploughing.' . Tho land is m ideal condition now. All the wav along the railway (writes our : travelling' correspondent) ;one "can' see-' largo areas ol land-ploughed.. In roany eases the. newl.y-sojyri'crops 'are; wpll up,'• aritl malt-' ing a fine show. The high orice of chaff and oats : is inducing farmers tp put in increased quantities of cereals this season, and, should nextharvest t.prove a normal one.v there must be considerable fall: in prices. All the same time, a large number, of farmer! .- are pinning,a good deal of faith to.what, Mr. Wraggo has said—that we arc- lo have ono. more dry season. Certainly what .this gentleman said with regard to this year and last has been wonderfully correct. .■ It is just as well, therefore,' that farmers;should: make preparation to cope with another, drj year.. . ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 2
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153PLOUGHS AT WORK. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 186, 1 May 1908, Page 2
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