During the last few days ti.o aspect of tlie weather has been decidedly wintry, b!e >k and showery, with a daily diminisl - mg radiation of solar heat 7he hills in the rortli-west are snow-capped, and j resent a very pleasing picture to the eye when Sol,emerging from the canopy clonds, illumines the surrounding landscape. The late rains are putting the ploughs at work in various parts of the district simultaneously with threshing operations. A rough estimate of the piobable yields assigns to wheat a return of from 43 to 44 bushels per acre, and 70 for oais, while barley will vary from 40 to 5 bushels. Some ol ihe machine' 1 have three months’ work to } erfprm.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 15 May 1880, Page 2
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117Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Temuka Leader, Issue 256, 15 May 1880, Page 2
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