. Farmer and stockbreeder . Twelve-months-old Large White of Mr. A. B. EDWARDS. Bus lies herd, Ongar. 350 THE FARMER AND STOCKBREEDER March 3, 191&.. FARM NOTES MERIONETH (SHIBE BILLS)—BAD WEATBEB—WORKDELAYED The weather here for the last seven weeks hasbeen very bad. Alter heavy rain came the hardfrost. All farm work is kept back, hardly anyploughing being done yet. Hay appears to be getting very short; plenty ofstraw, but very bad owing to the wet weather atharvest time. Milk and butter are very scarce. There is adecided drop in the price of cattle all round, buta good demand f
. Farmer and stockbreeder . Twelve-months-old Large White of Mr. A. B. EDWARDS. Bus lies herd, Ongar. 350 THE FARMER AND STOCKBREEDER March 3, 191&.. FARM NOTES MERIONETH (SHIBE BILLS)—BAD WEATBEB—WORKDELAYED The weather here for the last seven weeks hasbeen very bad. Alter heavy rain came the hardfrost. All farm work is kept back, hardly anyploughing being done yet. Hay appears to be getting very short; plenty ofstraw, but very bad owing to the wet weather atharvest time. Milk and butter are very scarce. There is adecided drop in the price of cattle all round, buta good demand for horses. In some of the farmsabout here there are quite a lot of lambs to beBeen. Up to the time of writing there is hard frost,and it looks as if we are going to get anotherdownfall of snow. J. P. J. February 26. SOMEBSET—ACDTE SCABCITY OF MILK Considering the long spell of wet weather,wheat, beais, and winter oats are looking re-markably well in this district. Hay is gettingrather scarce. What there is proves to be verysatisfying. There has not been such a scarcity of feeding-stuffs as was anticipated owing to farmers usingtheir own oats and more
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