Wire Binders.—Mr. Hutchinson, of Dargalong, states that during the threshing process he was particularly careful to keep the wire oat of the straw, but allowed a good deal of it to get among the "hulls," on chaff from the thresher. His cattle on b6ing tamed into the threshing yard went rooting among this chaff in their usual manner, and the result is that a number of them have become totally ..blind, Mr. Hutchinson is quite certain that this unfortunate effect is caused by the fragments-of mire getting into their eyei, —Northeatttrn Ensign.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5497, 30 June 1879, Page 3
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