TE AWAMUTU.
Harvesting Machinery.—A number of reapers and binders are in the district this year, so that there should be no difficulty in fanners getting their crops cut. There are at least six such machines round here. Messrs Fry, Short, Burke, Hutchinson, Weatherill and 0. Alexander have one each, and from the quantity of ground sow, last season, no doubt all of them will be tnlly employed. The crops, as a whole, look remarkably well, especially the wheat. A busy time may also be expected for the threshing machines, Messrs S. and H. Short will travel two this autumn. Some of the millers and threshers complain that sufficient care is not exercised in harvesting the wheat. They say that in many cases the straw is not allowed sufficient time to dry after rains; and also that cutting at night when there is a heavy dew is unwise, as the sheaves do not dry in tho centre, the result being that it is difficult to thresh all the grain out, and also that the wheat does not present the bright colour it would if saved dry, and it is apt to get somewhat mouldy.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2420, 14 January 1888, Page 2
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193TE AWAMUTU. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2420, 14 January 1888, Page 2
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