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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XXI, Issue 1105, 5 February 1891, Page 3

The Dunhack correspondent of the " Palmerston Times " writes :—The busy season on the sheep stations may be said to be over, The percentage of lambs has been very good. The wool clip, too, has been verysatisfactory, and sheep have come in excellent condition, thus showing the greai value of our natural pastures in what may be termed a very unfavourable season. Paddock sheep, on the contrary, have been throughout the summer languishing for want of feed, the lon ft drought having caused a very short grass season. During an experience of 30 years I have never seen crops such an utter failure, there being only small patches here and there that will cut, and sheep have been turned on to them in some instances. The turnip crop being also a failure, farmers must be put to their wits' end how to get over the winter with their stock. Truck loads of oats and chaff are already arriving at the Dunbuck station en route for up-country districts, thus showing that the failure of the crops must be widespread. It is understood by many that extensive reforms may be expected to bo made in the Postal Department by the new Miuistry.