TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 26, 31 January 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

FEILDING NOTES. [BT XBLIGBAPH—SPEOXAL TO TBZ POST.] FEILDING, This Day. No fewer than 17 entries have been received for the stack-building competition at the Feilding Show, for which innovation special prizes have been given by several of our farmers. It is understood that some of Feilding's farmers arß harvesting their grain a little too soon, thereby causing it to heat up in the bags. This will seriously affect the value of the seed, and if it gets too hot will make it useless. In one of last week's issues of The Post appeared a, paragraph giving the milking records of Mr. Thomas Oliver's herd. Another farmer answers the challenge thus: —"No doubt Mr. Oliver has a remarkably good herd of cows, but I think there are one or two more herds in the district that can Hold their own with anything in this or^any other district. One of these is that of Miss MacLean, at Aomngi. Last month her herd of 23 cows produced butter-fat worth £51 16s 3d, an average of £2 5s o|d per cow." Mr. Oliver's 22 cows gave an average of £2 _s. PRJSSS ASSOCIATION. INTERESTING RELICS. CHRISTCHURCH, 30th January. • A very interesting relic of the old whaling days'at Akaroa has just been brought to ChristchuTch and added to the treasures of the Canterbury Museum. This is an old "try-pot" used by the whalers of the " 'forties to melt down the blubber stripped fTom captured whales, thus extracting the oil. The try-pot is an enormous cast-iron vessel, weighing fully half a ton. It is not unlike an enormous cauldron, jand is fitted with a lip, and two of tne sides bulge barrel-like from top to bottom, while the other sides are flattened. It is about 3ft deep and fully 4ft wide at the broadest part of the interior. It is fitted with a large spout from which the oil would be poured when the blubber had been melted down and, altogether, is very stout and heavy. j Its recovery for the museum was made by Mr. Edgar R. Waite, curator of the musuem, who spent a short health vacar tion there. Mr. Waite, with a small party of friends, made a trip to the Island Bay property of Mr. Luke Wright, and found that this particular try-pot had originally formed one of a set of five which had been placed in juxtaposition a!nd .cemented into place. Each trypot had two flat sides, so that it could stand close to its fellows. Beneath them were spaces for the fires. Three _of the try-pots had been previously removed, leaving only twp in position. Mr. Luke Wright, who presented the try-pot, also presented the remains of an old wooden windlass, and these will be re-erected beside the try-pot. These are two very interesting relics of the "roaring 'forties."