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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9392, 11 March 1909, Page 2

Harvesting operations are practically concluded in the Ashburton oonnty, says the Mail, and the results have been satisfactory to farmers, good average yields having been obtained everywhere, add in quite a number of instances individual records have been established. .Not tre least among the causes for is the excellence of the grain, which, for all-round quality, has not been surpassed for years. The greater part of the wheat is* bright and plump, and all classes of have filled well. Prospects for the winter are more hopeful for the farming community than they were at the corresponding period of last year, and if timely autumnal rains fall there need be no apprehension on the part of landowners.