CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 192, 1 August 1874, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

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TO THE EDITOR, j j Sir, —I think it is time our sheejifarmers steps to make shearers more cbmfortgj one shearing than at present. I do nq'v p place on the whole of the rurt^ ‘ {or m( £ where there are Bleeping apag' whe „ full of other than a wool-shed ijo and 6| „ eU sheep nt night 18 not h be a proper p rice. all d / j tui is t . ima 11™ O proper accommodation, both B ie eping. In many places you /xb your food in open air, or scarcely any covering in wet weatheri the food is generally rough and inferior. LfeSjp * >een > n many places but I hard* libt seen a place like Poverty Bay where shearers have to put up with such rough accommodation, hoping this will meet the eye of our shoepfarmers.—l am, &c., Old Shearer.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l see in the Herald that it is proposed to take measures to preserve this season’s crop of grass seed on the Patutahi block, the advantages accruing to the district from such an arrangement are too apparent to need discussion ; but with reference to the practical part of it I think I shall not be alone in suggesting that instead of allowing the stock now upon it to remain until the month of November, it should bo removed as soon as possible after the Ist of September, the heavy stocking which the land has undergone for the last two years has, no doubt, been beneficial to the rougher parts of it; but not to the parts from whence the grass seed is gathered ; heavy stocking, particularly with sheep, is well Jkoown to causa rapid deterioration of the rye grass, therefore the longer spell the better. I feel certain that no disinterested person will combat this.—l am, &c., Grass-cutter.