OCCASIONAL NOTES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 37, Issue 95673, 15 February 1907, Page 1

OCCASIONAL NOTES.

[3i- Rambler.] Since writing my last note T have been nvcr u very large .area of Otago and Southland, and will try and give you an idea of the general appearance of things it> t lie farming line. In Otagothe drought stems to be more severely felt than in Southland. T didn't i-ee a really good crop in Otaj.o. They seem to be light and thin ai d will not thresh out anything like the usual. The turnip crop can be put down as a failure : any I saw 'Were not >:.ie' third of a cmp, and the number of blank drills'shows that winter feed is going to be at a very high premium unless we get a very good 'fall of mi a and a mild winter. In Southland turnips are different. Although the crops are not so liaavy as «.*-uai they are good useful crops and will thresh out yery \» r .eil, and althoughon the hills they are light ihey ujll .make good chart' and tt.at.will me.vaao.&it'ibiiJi, rh'-yAr. The turiip<<a.it, very gf«>»'. f"*» s " <:rop ih-<t were ti"- I 'i-i: i >■ • • looking Al, Others. > ■ ' 1 although the bulls v-Ue ijie S2< f h< s'< o ann is thj k - r 'i \"c ) Ij u i _ » < ii ti ) \ i ur _ <- r * 1 -£' ■. i. v i i> ur *ui 'I i _ . It i I iU .i r i ' \ iid f < iu i <. C \ t 1 g ti ic ni-ij li«i)i >u .ii ..i . and the man that can invent a ivaliy good turnip thinning machine hns got a fortune. Ijihss everywhere is very scarce, and the number i>f limbs b'ing >-ushed through the freezing wmks does n:»t s»y very tuuoh for thequali y Everything that will pass U lining put through, ewes, wethers, aud lambs. I came across moos cM:r; «iicic—all t'orthe freezing. ifte law' hush fires have {layed; hivnc with the. ha h d.iwn ><-«ar;J !' 'owns *a>'. and in li'tle patv' = i-S •»! brush woere p?-i ■;«■& t ■i-iJu k •■•. t.-i

s tying t:i.- Uoi'er it:-, an: <;■»> £>•■'. :;: •nd cieareij ix, •n~s ity'w.:! rl <** •'•■••V.vr-; as well as i:>-stMyi.i.;.t:i« limner-. i; believe the tire h--s made an awful mess down Catjins Ltiyer way, destroy? ing millions of feet of timber and firewood as well as sawirnlls and pbrtrt and putting a large number of mm out. of employment, and the trouble won't stop Ihere as the supply nf tim■pt- re»d\ for wun'r list veiv long; and wliat about the carpenters 1 They will hive to remain iale until the mills •>tiirtag«.in, as t!ie general run of sawmills down in Hi». bush are running pretty well at top all (he time and won't lie able to put mueb more. through than they are, so it is hard to., say how things are going to be,