TUAPEKA MOUTH.
March 5. — The weather has settled once more, and the farmers are working from daylight to dark cutting what is left of the crops and leading in that already cut. The high winds played sad havoc with all kinds of crops. I have had an opportunity of seeing the famous Buckeye at work on some pretty stiff sidelings, and it does its work fairly well. A good many loose sheaves were lying about, and others were very loosely tied, bnt I was iuformed that that was the faulc of the twine. If sufficient strain were put on to tie the sheaf tight the twine broke. Harvest hands were not so plentiful in this district this season. Wages varied from 7d to lOd per hour. Bunny. — The rabbits are as plentiful at the present bime as I have ever seen them. Talk about natural enemies ! A Crown rabbiter of my acquaintance on going round his traps ono morning recently found three of the latest liberated ferrets in them. Being cut somewhat about the legs he took them home, intending to doctor them until they were fit to turn out again. He kept them closed in for three days and starved them, and then put in a live rabbit, but they cowed into a corner of the box and would not look at the rabbit. If the ferrets were trained to kill before they were turned out, they would do more damage.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 17
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242TUAPEKA MOUTH. Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 17
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