GREAT GRAIN SHORTAGE.
POSITION IN .ASHBURTON. COUNTY. The average threshing tallies for the threshing mille in the Ashburton County for the season just, closed are' abor.t. 43,000 bushels- rf mixed grain, which (says our Christc-luu-eh correspondent) is fully 20,000 buslmls short of last year. This represents a shortage of 800,000 bushels for the Ashburton County, 'the falling-off being mainly represented by wheat. During the past month a very large quantity of oaten chaff has been trucked from Halcombo Railway Station. Three farmers alono are reported to havo grown over a thousand tons of this profitable crop. TO DAIRYMEN AND FARMERS. Dairy farmers and factory managers should mal;e a point of using sans, vats, or cheese'hoops, etc., mado by Albert J. Partoh, of Ca'rtcrton. They are the best procurable. Drop a post-card. Tel, 6S.*
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 8
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133GREAT GRAIN SHORTAGE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1101, 13 April 1911, Page 8
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