TOURING IN NELSON.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1735, 28 April 1913, Page 8

TOURING IN NELSON.

MOltti AIiOUT TIIE TARMIXG. "It is nol often thai; one comes across a Chinaman, as a farmer, !>u! (says our travelling- correspondent') when 1 was driving up the Dovedtile Valley recently, I saw one.' He lias a nice farm, nowworked by h.is half-caste son. Tim old man is supposed lo be well over 101) years of age, and is still hule and active considering his years. 1 nolieed thai: though tho English grasses had been sown all over tho valley, dauthonia is gradually working them out, and the farmer* iiml they cannot carry the same amount of slock. Here, as in mo«t other districts in Kelson, the sheep were looking remarkably healthy, such things as dags and dirt being practically unknown. The result; is that' very litile wool is lost at crutching time. Foot troublo also is practically, an unknown thing, so that if tho Nelson siieepfarmcrs do not carrv tho same amount of stock as the North Island farmers, they have the advantage that les* disease and troublo generally is experienced in their flocks than provails in country of richer pasture.

l'Vom Dovodalo 1 was driven over to Stanley Brook. When we, got: to the

saddle, the'driver'pulled tin the"'horses so as wo could enjoy tho view. Indeed, it way well worth spending a few minutoi to do so. Oli tho right were the }loupfc Arthur ranges, covered with their nianflo of snow, while right away in tho far distance wo could see the fhvon ranges also snow-clad; in tho near.left-hand woro lower grassy hills, dotted with clumps of bush, and then at our feet lay the valley itself, with the brook flowing through like a streak of silver. There lias been •a good area stumped and ploughed,' and put under' crop, oats being the chief crop, though rape and turnips aro also grown for tho sheep. The land carries on an average about one and a half sheep to the acre, and docs them w*ell. I must say that I rarely saw signs of overstocking in my tour through Xolson. I fancy tho farmers are a bit cautions, and justly so. They get hot, dry summers and frosty winters, I>oth being against carrying any excess stock. .Danthonia again is taking possession of tho hills, and- in places .there is *a great deal of bid-a-bid. Like a good deal of the province in other parts, not many cattle arc seen. Tho pasture is more adapted to wool-growing than beef or milk) The roads in the district are good, there being, as a rule, sufficient material in tho numerous creeks and rivers for all purposes.

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