MILD SEASON AND GOOD YIELD
• THE LABOUR PROBLEM. People who rcccntly • have been through Taranaki .'■itate that thore are many evidences, that'the season has been a very successful one. Among the factors contributory 1.0 .the success is the mildness of the season. There has befjn an absence of drought! conditions: light rains have been frequent. Whereas the capacity of the country to maintain a green appearance has often been severely tested at about this timo of the year, there is now no sign of browning in the fields. • One of the difficulties that ,has had to be contended with is a shortage of men. Some farmers have managed very well with but little assistance, but othors have been so situated that inability to get men has been a serious matter for them. It is not a big percentage of sheds that lacks milkingmachines, but even with machines there is ample work about the farms •for men to do.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 154, 19 March 1918, Page 8
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158MILD SEASON AND GOOD YIELD Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 154, 19 March 1918, Page 8
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