THINGS THAT ARE DEAR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 6

THINGS THAT ARE DEAR.

FARMERS BUY CHAFF. . POTATOES NONE' TOD PLENTIFUL —FRUIT CROP CUT SHORrT. Mr Hunt, manager, of the Farmers' Distributing Company in Wellington, takes" a pessimistus — or ought we to say optimistio? — view of the prices of the future; He thinks things will be dear. ■ "Chaff," he said to a Dominion reporter, "is in very great demand. It is due to the drought. We are actually selling chaff back to the fanners. We usually sell chaff for the country livery stables, but this year we are selling chaff to the farmers themselves, as far up as Shannon." That will stop soon, now that the grass is growing? "Perhaps — if the frost does not nip it." • ■ • Potatoes? "None too plentiful. We have just received' an excellent sample from the South." • It will be easy work handling potatoes this year. No blighted ones?" "This is by no means certain. The rain came in plenty of time to wash the blight spores down to the tubers, and it is surprising how quickly the blight develops. Potatoes that are quite sound when they leave the fields j may be rotten in their sacks a few days later in the hot brick stores of the city." Fruit? "Scarce. The singular thing about the drought is that it seemed to cut off the fruit crop at a certain stage, and fruit is now scarce." "Dairy produce," continued Mr Hunt, "is soarce also. For some years past the quantity of farmers' butter sent in to the markets has been diminishing,, hut this' year the decrease has been more marked. I haTe ; not yet noticed, any appreciable increase since the rain." .

BROUGHT TO BAY are those enemies, of civilisation, Indigestion and Dyspegf' sia, when Dr. Sheldon's jy^eeiAveTabuM'. ar« employed j 2a 6d per tin. Efr>r sate oy chemists and storekeepers, Hawera; F. J, Gapp^r, Kaponga; an<l C. James, Alton. — Advt.

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