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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 226, 1 March 1928, Page 4

The dry spell on the West Coast is causing an acute shortage of water, especially in the country districts,, where tanks have run dry and water has to be carried from the nearest creek or river, the spectacle of housewives engaged in laundry work along the river banks being not uncommon. In some instances washing coppers have been removed to the banks of the Grey river.

“How soon can ensilage be safely fed out to stock after it is made?” is a query put to us by a farmer thig week. We could not give him chapter and verse on the subject by a recognised authority, but next day another district farmer, to whom the question was put, said he had recently read where experiments carried out at one of England’s experimental research farms showed that ten or twelve days after stacking the ensilage may be fed out to stock with satisfactory results. This statement is passed on for the information of those other farmers who may have had doubts about the matter.