IN THE HIGH SHEEP COUNTRY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1062, 27 February 1911, Page 8

IN THE HIGH SHEEP COUNTRY.

. . ,'THE.FARMS MM FEET UP. . -..■Writitujcof a ...recontL journey -in tho, Huntervillo district,. 5 our travelling correspondent says:—Tho Watershed Road lcavesjMangnoiiOuo; "sliarn to tho left, and at orico wo begin to mount up tho hills. iTho-formation - is papa, carryingn good sward of grass, fairly steep in places. Hero .tho -road- is not' metalled; not.a stono.in,tho district. Tho first farm como to is Mri Earlo'e, who at tho timo I was there had any amount of grass.) for his stock. On again for , eomo distance, and "Korenui," Jlr. Swanson's property, is seen—grand ilicop country, toa.,'Up, still up, tho read keeps winding round spurs and. gullys, and then' in tho distance on tho v sky ; J.mo J ;"AJnswood 1 " •the. home of Mr.' J." Lambert, carao into view. It is high country hero, 2000 feot up,'and it> carries a large.-,'number of sheep. I-was told they'cah'winter two and a half.'".'Thereis a magnificent view from the .va'ra'ndah of "Ainswood," well worth a long ride to see. At the back of Mr. Lambert's run you can seo the back part of Mr. 'A. E: Russell's station.-It is all grand sheep country.>■• And now," leaving ."Aiuswood," wo are travelling via,Field's,track.,,,l remember seeing this-on tho maps over 30 years ago. It w'as'aH'unsettled'Wdritry at that time., On the-opposite sido of'the road is tho.back part-of Jlri, J. Duncan's'"OtaW'.run. Hcre.nnd'in the Mangdono Valley Vnro tho" choicest parts of this wellknown station.''. ■.-"'.'•,.,.:,',v'i'. ; ", ■'•■•■. . . What struck mo as being a pity was to see, .the largo quantity of splendid cocksfoot seed wasting on' the 'roadside—never a hook putiintO'itn-Tliero must bo many hundreds expounds' worlli gono to wasto in.a few miles of tho Watershed Road. With tho.seed at 6d. per pound, ns it is tbir-season,; that means - two-pounds at least per bag—you enn putifn uo to ninety pounds, and over if well ramnicd —so that a good grass soedor would have hadiYcry littla'diffieultj-rin making, that sum per day. It is a ( job easily learned, and entails very little esponso in the way of an outfit, and still a lot of men in tho towns seem-to prefer to hang'about' till a job drops into, their, moutas;! - ■•'• • .At the-top of the road.' or rather .at tho saddle, there is a road loadinjr off to tho left, to '/Tekunui," Dr. Ansonjs.fino property, ' , -~