Waiata

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 268, 15 November 1934, Page 10

Waiata

From Our Own Correspondent. This month Is proving a very busy one on the farms and work is being rushed through from daylight till dark. Shearing is in full swing and the weather has been most favourable. Not so for the tillers of the soil, however, as the ploughed land is proving hard to work down into suitable seed bods. It seems from a birds-eye view of the district that more land than ever is being ploughed and cultivated this year. Perhaps the brighter tone of the wool and fat iamb markets is encouraging the settlers to endeavour to increase production. Several droves of fat lambs have already been sent from the district and the lamb and wool lorries are running constantly. A welcome shower fell during the evening on Tuesday and although insufficient to be of any great benefit, brightened up the gardens considerably. New potatoes are the order of the day now. the frosts which so often hinder their growth on the lower-lying country, not affecting them at all here. One gardener dug his first early yield well over a month ago.