OKAIAWA.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) THE GRASS GRUB. The grass grab is ravaging some paddocks in this neighbourhood, and is worse than for a. good number of years past. In passing over a neighbour’s paddock I noticed a peculiar thing. This paddock was very badly infested with the grub, but a narrow strip from the milk stand to the road, over which the milk cart passed, was not touched. Evidently ground which has been well consolidated is not to the grubs’ liking. An excellent plan is to feed out on badly infected paddocks. AFFORESTATION, v Several settlers round about here are planting quite a number of timber trees this season. There are nob many farms which do not contain a few odd corners which are not of much value, and these could not be put to any better use. Owing to the rapid growth the black wattle and several varieties of eucalypti are most favoured. The macrocarpa, although of slower growth, is a very valuable timber. Just recently I have replaced two macrocarpa gateposts with concrete. One of. these posts has been in the ground for ten years, and, with the exception of not not. more than half an inch of sap round tlie outside of the portion underground, it was as sound as the day it was put in.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 June 1926, Page 10
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220OKAIAWA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 June 1926, Page 10
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