EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT.
SHORTAGE OF WINTER lEED.
{, Tuesday.
It is reported that farmers in - various parts of the Ash burton county have become so short of feed for their stock, that they have already been obliged to feed on chaff. farmers state that a large quantity of wheat straw will have to be cut and mixed with molasses to tide their stock over the winter months. The grass grub has been very busy in the Lauriston and Lyndhurst districts, and a large area will have to be ploughed and resown with grass and clover seeds.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14688, 24 May 1911, Page 7
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