Apiti Notes
(FBOJt aUft OWir OTRfeESPONDENT.) We have had about twelve hours magnificent rain, consequently the land owners are all busy sowing their grass seed. Some had already done so«but the dryaess of the season did; not allow it to germinate. ' ■ When Mr Homer was driving his first lot of sheep (100) into the Peep o 1 Day (Apiti Block) on last Wednesday, he got twenty of them burned owing to the roots and rubbish on the roadway being on fire. The sheep walked right into . the flames, and it Was with the greatest difficulty the others were saved form injury. . The potatoe crops are turning out well in tHe Kiwitea this year, and as an instance of their fecundity I may mention i that three roots were dug np by Mr Burns which weighed 3211b5. One root had 32 good serviceable tubers on it which turned the scales at ll£ lbs. (For contiiiwatwn vf Reading Matter we fourth page.) ■
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 113, 18 March 1890, Page 3
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