BUSY TIMES AT LINTON.
In tho Linton district, (writes our travelliiiK correspondent) the-farmers find the da) s all too short for the work on hand. It is wonderful how improved the district has become since I was there last. These Linton farmers are a busv lot. There is a largo area of land now stumped and under crop ot one sort or another The wonderful oat crops are, perhaps, too long in the straw to please a Uairarapa or liangitiKei farmer, but when the newness of he land has worked, oft there will be some grand crops reaped in the fields of Lin on. There are some nice breadths of rane and turnip in the district; in some cases lambs were in the second cut. Things are beginning to look a bit dry; a good soaking rain is much needed, and-many $the smaller creeks are dry. But it is wonderful how the-Brass is holding out, and also Slow well the dairy cattle are keeping uj> their • inld Of course, there is a decrease in the milk flow all round, which is always expected, !irwi n* a rule, in January; but this season ",S appreciable falling off set on till near the "nd of the month. I was told of one supIn the Linton Cheese Factory, whose fortyseven cows brought him a cheque for J2SO; another with 40 cows got over AO.' This has Sipen an ideal season tor clearing paddocks of "tumps and logs. The. timber good condition for firing; there is just sufficient wind to keen the fires going, and, lies of all, very lift e fear of them spreading, the grass being " green that the fire would not travel far. No one need fear to burn off in this season, 1111. like twelve months ago, when it was the very inst thing to be thought of. Ami the men in Tinton are taking ndvnnlage of tho opportunity one sees smoke in all directions, indica--1;,,"' that the paddocks arc being rapidly cleared. The flats and rolling downs of Linton' make excellent dairying land, and tho hills are good sheep country. Several of the settlers told mc they winter-and winter well —tlireo sheep to the ac»
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 454, 12 March 1909, Page 2
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366BUSY TIMES AT LINTON. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 454, 12 March 1909, Page 2
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