WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1065, 2 March 1911, Page 8

WHERE THE GRASS IS GREEN.

PLACES THE DROUGHT HAS MISSED. As 1.-rodo up the hill .from Lccdstown and got to :Parker's Flat, I saw green grass and lots of it, too. The district is .'just under Mount Curl, the highest ridgo l'ri the vicinity, consequently it, attracted ■ more - rain than tho flat couri-' try. lower down. Here.l saw. some excellent rape and 'Inrni}) crops,- really good, plenty of top and well bulbed. This land is well known for its potato-growing qualities—twenty tons to the acre is by no means rare. Of the valley of the Porcwa- one could I .not say-it was badly off for grass- compared with the open country. The Porewa' Stream is very'low now, .in some-places merely a •. trickle. Passing through Hunterville and looking up; nt the hills-on the right they were very browri indeed, and were badly ill-seed of. nio're . moisture. On the left I saw plenty of both grass'and water, green flats, green liills, in fact • everything was looking "Al." At Pukiore the cattle were knee-deep, in cow grass. Passing the Pukiore ' School I noticed , the children's ponies revelling in grass up to their bellies, any amount of it, and plenfv "f water in the creek. Lucky people these! '