"The boauty of our soil—and I am now speaking of the flats—is that it does not mattor a rap if wo do not get any moro rain until March," said a landownor in tho district. "There aro good lands in other parts of the country which give fine results on ,t steady rainfall, but can they stand up to a threo months' drought like our flats? That is the advantage of having from six to twenty-five feot of good alluvial soil underfoot."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 72, 18 December 1917, Page 5
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82Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 72, 18 December 1917, Page 5
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