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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 June 1915, Page 3

The .statistics of live stock in South Australia on 'December 31 iast show that the flocks and herds have been considerabl reduced by drought. Cattle (300,570) show a decrease of 52,326. the dairying- herds showing a lose of 16,098 head; sheop (4,208.-101) show a decrease of 864,5915. And the losses must have been hoavv since the end of the year.

It is the intention ol the Government in tho near future to throw open 30,000 acres of land in Hawke's Bay. A couple of thousand acres at Pomngahau will cuiuo into the market in aoout two months' time, and soon afterwards 20.000 acres adjoining the Tangoio Settlement and on the route ot the East Coast railway will be opened for selection, and still later 100 acres of good grazing land at Tutira.—Wairarapa Age.

Many of the cattle that were taken from the Masterton district to the .Forty-Mile Bush during the period of the drought are now being returned. The cattle are not in the best of condition, the change of climatic conditions, apparently, not having been favourable to them. With the absence of rough feed in the Wairarapa, it is feared there will be a heavy mortality among cattle in the coming winter.

Potatoes, brought into Russia lirst in 1769, caused-fearful riots being called devil's apples.

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