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It is proposed to establish a dry milk business; in Victoria. . . Oat crops,in the Greendale (Canter-, bury) district are yielding from 50 to' over 70 bushels. ' . < Notwithstanding the loss of 100,000 cows in Victoria in the unfavourable season of 1907-8, there has been, a sudden increase jit this year's butter output,] bringing it up within" measurable dis-. tance of the record season, of 190&-7. The meat shipments from Victoria during the final three months of last year amounted to 503,000 carcases of lamb.j and 116,000 carcases of mutton, against: 393,000 carcases of lamb .and 44,000 of mutton for the corresponding period of last year. , Considerable progress is being mada with the afforestation scheme in Scot-' land by the Homo Government. Already there have been planted, and are about to be planted 190,000 larch, 420,000 common spruce, 50,000 Douglas spruce, 45,000 Sitka spruce, and 125,000 Scots puie.i British nurseries could not supply the 1 whole of the above, aad part had to b« purchased in Germany.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7039, 29 January 1910, Page 16
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166GLEANINGS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7039, 29 January 1910, Page 16
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