COUNTRY NEWS AND NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13461, 29 June 1909, Page 9

COUNTRY NEWS AND NOTES.

JOTTINGS FOB VAKMEBB,

Tho boom in dairying land* naki still continues. ; ;/*Tho Star" repdrta that -..a .If__*m l^|Q__&i' T y. awa has just changed .h*)^:(n)bi£s;y: an acre. A -fifty-five "-a^}p3Xi^i^ : Waihi has been.- leased a% acre, two hundred aoro farjjjjju-.,.«.*yfe Manaia at 38s eaoh, and _i»>renty-fl__fven, '&,s acres at Kapoiwu at 37a <J»* ton policeman). •'■.,- ':;'y':' ;-'■-'• :'-'y'ty wy.#.:gf: It is. noticeable; '(writes *) I '_ho' bridge correspondent of tho ".Now. land of the .Main- Truak"li_i©' : ber of Waikato in search of farm a number- of'__deft*ai* , out" exception,: .thi'- ■rtsito»-. ; with thamuoh better than :thoy it. • . -:.;.";.; . :;".; ■^yy'yyy~>pyf&y^ . In;inid-Oanterbury:---tß'.ti>'-.« hour' :fine weather, for 'this- time 'of; been eipe»i<_hcod, ,; bad a '••' single*'-clwck'woHh in ■ autu__ja-sowri pop«ring:'thpvlan4 .-The-, pestntes.^.^h•a:«yh©wi iJ a - : Btle ' turnip -feed "wto-'not ss in several: : : had- ]»«a\ wu'-west raw.:' yesterday,.' - will-.'-'. I farites our ■ A'shbur tdn-.f more especially : sftell '■' of s tad Rafter next two trying period of'■_h_-,,ye-* of-.-'Stock.,/. r ' will/ "'ol \obur_o. v, be ; soipe; little -ti-me;. I>ut=-_hi«.r- - :tx: very ;i '• TO--OUS^-Matj-_&.yi ; at operations .fdiwi^.v ; "have come such th_^?*tjuar BW : ' ; damage,: a flßetl <6f '■'.' -Speaking .at tho. «ijsft-ifo?^ the.'A_-__>u^n:l*^^ o__k»/:Mr.W:4*w?^'?»^^ ! priyilege ol putting; 2_p> a; sack;-. Thia were really concerning w«fc the size b_ -used, to-contain.--; Mr that: tbe : qui-tt-y : .o.;' recently to "ho gave -an- instance-,wh_-^' ? on:- tts&*«M tempt • * bfing ■ -made £W :-.s&■ wheat,' -part-:' of.: the: 'grain ■ .loree^ifiiaf-;|g| through the' sack. y', ; yCv:"..; - : .yi&ffiyyi i€| • at the ___?ntiUy burton branch of* *t_i»---F-i-i_^->.I&ill»-_i', was tho xeceiit men with reference "fcb tho which some '.-fArinert:''.iwnt''''';lil^S-te^ : to tho freesing. works. Tho. <Mr Framp-on) said.that it; suggested that fines should bo sau«i*y**&_?y,[ to j>revent a continuance of iJ-O^rifc^y 7 ..- -tice. Unless stock" were sent into ,t3» j-' >i. works clean, it was inijpo_wble men to do good work. contended that farmers "should -'go all their sheep and clean';"them*'bstowcy.-y sending them to -tho works,ran3 "■hiß ':*_- perience was that if .the dagging -•wis: 'yy done with proper oarOj there wo;__"l %>>v;i], no injurious results to tlw : c-t_saw*#&«_* ■".'___ slaughtered. On tho. -notion of Mr C,".-■-.,;. Reid, seoondod hy Mr Harding,-toi*____KGii. decided to Tecommend 'tho executive to y rfc suggest to tho freesing works autho-y yj rities that instructions ho issued , : wi : '_ys farmers to send their sheep in' o-saa, £-'a '"_' as otherwise before the sheep were pot,yy. ; ;: on the slaughtering boards they would y;>'" be cleaned at t>ho expense of thoso woo .-;■* sent them.. . . : : : -':. :^- : : .¥%= As an instance of the fine _>e»s6n just : experienced (writes our Waiau .oortiosipondent), it is of interest to learn that a settler on Highfield has dug « quantity of Up-to-Date potatoes, wllioli averaged well over 13 tons *por .acre,' some of the tubers weighing is much as -■ four pounds. This is also a jfroof of . the fine nature of tbe soil in tbe district. ■■-'