FARMING.
- ♦ Thk mischief done by the recent bad weather to the crops is universally deplored by the Press of the Colony. At the same time, reproach is cast on the farmers for the niggardly mode of harvesting adopted by many of them, and which has led to such severe loss to themselves ahd the Colony at large. To save expense, some attempted to thresh in the field from the stooks, instead of carting the sheaves in and stacking their corn in ricks protected from the weather, and then threshing at a more convenient season. If they had followed this simple course — which is a custom honored by time— and should therefore be acceptable to the agricultural mind, no loss could have ensued. The lesson farmers have received has been a severe one, and it is to be hoped wdl bear good fruit. Another result will be that parties who hold liens over growing crops wili take an active interest in lhe harvesting, and compel farmers, when necessary, to take proper precautions for the preservation of their crops to prevent mutual loss that might occur from their absence.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 78, 13 March 1883, Page 2
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187FARMING. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 78, 13 March 1883, Page 2
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