MOONLIGHT.
April 10.— The harvest has been got through in quick time this season owing to the diy weather, and now the hum of the thrashing mill maj' be heard as it .separates the grain from the straw. The yield of grain is good per stack, although below the average per acre. 'Ihe turnips are looking well, and promise to ba a fair crop notwithstanding the dry weather we have " experienced. * Thk Rabbits — A. dry season is always favourable_ to buuny, but at the present time they are having a particularly lively time of it, for the demand at the Dunbaek Canning Factory for bunny's skin and c*rc«se is practically unlimited ; as a consequence the settlers can see now what thpy could not see earlier in the season — namely, that it will pay them to despatch bunny It is a pity farmers could not see what the rabbits eat from their stock, and then they might wage war against bunny much earlier in the season— say, immediately after shearing. There is always a slack timp between Bhearing and harvest which could be profitably taken up in destroying the pest ; but . until the destruction wrought by rabbits can be as foicibly brought before the farmers as are the ch'ques received from the factory, T am afraid bunny will get liberty to go ou eating up and dirtying the feed to much required by the stock to fit them for the approaching winter. The Canning Works. —The Dunback Canning Factory is making its presence felt in other directions besides the universal destruction of bunny. They have bought a large quantity of sheep this season for canning purposes, and the refuse is put through a digested and all the fat taken off and the remainder made into manure. Sixty hands are employed in and around the fuctorj', and over £100 per month is p. id as wages alone, besides what is paid away for sheep, rabbits, tin, coal. &c, &c. The factory is one of the sights of Dunback, and to see the rapidity with which sheep and rabbits are s.kiuned and dressed is an eye opener to the uninitiated.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 30
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357MOONLIGHT. Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 30
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