Otago Crops
THOSE farmers in Mid-Otago, say, front I’altnersTon to Baiclutlm, who usually sow wheat in the autumn, have apparently dropped the practice this year, slates the Dunedin Star. A lield down in wheat for seed is rare now, even on the Tokomairiro Plain. On many of the holdings, however, can be found' paddocks in which grain lias been sown to cut for feed in the spring, lints giving the. occupiers an assurance of a standby in the event, of a shortage of food as a result of ihe peculiar weather last autumn.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 10
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93Otago Crops Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 10
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