DROUGHT AND BUSH FIRES,
TRYING TIME'OP.-KING''COUNTRY "" ' FARMERS. ■: (By Teleeraph.-Spccia! Correspondent.) -Auckland, March 29. ..The'abnormal, 'condition'.of the'weather is causing the King' Country, farmers wave concern.' They hre '.practically at their wits' end in many.' parts of-the district as to what they.'will do for winter feed. The turnips are all nearly a failure, and on. bush > bums they are wholly so. The outlook.- for the winter is serious, and all are earnestly hoping °[ ra i? - farmers who sowed grass-seed when the last small rains came with the hope that more would follow will be very heavy losers. . One. farmer sowed over (00 acres,,and it is reported'that he will 5? Te ii to xf esow Practically the whole lot, !iW -i. S!e3 B ermi nated with the wfth m P, ness > a "d has since perished. ill Lw v ry v. thor - busn «»& and Zt 111 hl B h ;..* r Jje of ■ grass-seed this year farmers ,in the Te Kuiti' district |aje been havmg anything but a pleasan
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1089, 30 March 1911, Page 5
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165DROUGHT AND BUSH FIRES, Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1089, 30 March 1911, Page 5
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