BUSH BURNING.
The long continuance of broken weather all over the North Island has sadly interfered with bush burning. To such an extent is this operation retarded this season that the cry has been raised that a burn is now impossible. We are told that the timber is damp, and the moist weather has caused such a luxuriant undergrowth that it will be found impossible to get tho fire to run through the fallen timber.
There is time yet for burns to take place. A correspondent writing from Ashurst says : —‘Fifteen years ago there was just such a season as this—rain up to tho first week in March, and after that fine till June. Good burns were had that year in April, also ten years ago good burns were had in the same month. Bush farmers need not despair, the right time will probably come. Why, I remember when I first came to the Colony people were thought to be out of their senses if they burnt before March ; but now, such is the advance of the age in all things, that burning must also be done a month earlier.’
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 993, 13 March 1891, Page 20
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