PREPARING FOR WINTER.
A MILD AUTUMN. (From Our Ows Correspondent.) MIDDLEMARCH, April 14. Earn has come at last after aMairly dry spell. Altogether 16 points fell. Grass is fairly plentiful just now and the prospects for the winter are good. The threshing mill is still working steadily, and if the weather holds the threshing should be about finished in a fortnight. The chatlcutter will then he pulled out and kept goirg, as there is a fair amount of chaff to he cut Farmers are busy with their fall ploughing, and a good deal of the stubble has been turned over. Runholders will be busy shortly turning their rams out and getting things fixed up for the winter. During the year ended March 31, 42,000 head of sheep have been trucked away from Middlemarch on the railway, compared with 40,000 last year: and 1300 cattle have been trucked, compared with 1000 last year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19764, 15 April 1926, Page 9
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152PREPARING FOR WINTER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19764, 15 April 1926, Page 9
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