GLEANINGS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1915, Page 3

GLEANINGS.

—♦ PLOUGHING AND iS OWING IN 1' HAi^i/Jii. "The crops tiro all 'gathered ;n Southern l'raiico" writes tlio correspondent of the Loudon "Times," "the wine harvest garnered, and the plouguing and sowing well advanced throughouit all that fertile laud which lies between the Pyreuess aud .Marseilles. Through Tarbes, Toulouse, Carcaseoimo Narboune, (Jetto, Mines aud Tarascon, travelling by the leisurely trains of the present rather haphazard time-table, ei-orywiiore one looks out upon fields wnerts old men, women and' boys are i;::siiy doing the work of tlio absent breadwinner, and doing it successfully. Thanks to the courage >inl capability of tlio fanners' wives, this country's business of husbandry shown no perceptible sigu of suffer 1 eg uoiii tu« effects of the war. IN G'AIKO \Ve went through all the native quarters to create an impression, and such a sight you never saw. The streets are only wide enough to drive' a waggon through, and thoy stink like the devil. Thousands of natives wtore Bitting iu their shops which were 8 leofc square, and all sorts of fruit, meat and food were 011 sale, oovered in flies by the thousand. You would never eat dates or figs without washing them if you saw these things. \Ve nave to wash everything we buy.