WAIPAHI NOTES.

Mataura Ensign, 21 May 1910, Page 7

WAIPAHI NOTES.

. « FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. We have had another taste of winter after a few weeks of good dry weather. The rain was very acceptable, as tank water w y as beginning to. get scarce. Before the cold snap came young pasture showed that a good growth had set in. If frost keeps away I fancy the growth will continue, as the • ground is still dry and warm. Most farmers have started ploughing lea; in some instances the ground is very hard and it is pretty rough on horses and plough. Lea land that is ploughed now, however, has a long time to lie turned up to winter weather and it will work dow 7 n well when the time for use comes. Lambs are practically the only sheep that are being turnip fed as yet, most people preferring to keep their ewes off for another month or so. The turnip crops around this district on the whole are very fair considering the dryness of the season, and most people have enough for tjieir own requirements. >- Rabbit trapping reopened on the 7th, but the catches have fallen off considerably. Some trappers are skinning and others are sending to the freezing works. I don't know which will pay better; probably the skins, according to the reports of the skin market; but there is a little more work attached to skinning. Bunny will be pretty scarce by the time trapping and poisoning are finished. The concert that was to have taken place in aid of the Hall Improvement Fund oh the 20th was postponed owing to the late King's funerail falling on that date. The Public Hall sadly requires some external repairs, and the funds from the forthcoming concert are to be spent for that purpose.