The Crops.
A SAD TALE.
(WangaDui Herald.) The damage caused to grain all over the district by the late heavy rains is much more serious than at first supposed, and instead of the losses to tbe farmers being reckoned by hundreds they may be set down m thousands. Whole stacks of grain have been soaked through and rendered useless. All over the country stacks are to ba seen with their tops growing green, while others have been Opened up and the sheaves spread out to dry. Other farmers, again, who have not carted m their graia from the threshing machine, have spread it out as best they could m barns or sheds, bub all more or less damaged. One flour mill is stopped for want of wheat, no suitable sample being m the meantime procurable. All this damage might have been averted by the precaution being taken of covering tbe stacks with thatch, but the harvest weather of previous seasons has shown no reason for taking this step, and many a farmer has learned a lesson for the future at the expense of a bitter experience.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 90, 22 March 1883, Page 2
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186The Crops. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 90, 22 March 1883, Page 2
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