Owing to the severe weather during July, grass is becoming very scarce in l.hi! Ashburton County, arid with tho turnips about done, and only a limited simply of swedes, feed for stoclc is decidedly short. After the rain of Sunday and Monday, all that is wanted is a week or two of warm weather, and tbo grass and clover should come away fast." Tho winter-sown grain crops in many districts li!ye freshened up wonderfully as a result of a few days' spring weather, while the early sown spring crops arc also making good crowtli. In somo instances farmers Jiavo substituted lewt. of lime per aero with spring whoat instead of manur«. and have obtained an excellent > strike. '
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 292, 29 August 1918, Page 4
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