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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7369, 22 January 1902, Page 2

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(BY RAMBLES.)

The many friends of Mr T. Huckstep, of Awatuna, will be pleased to hear that he is getting about again after his severe accident. Unfortunately, the sight of the eye is destroyed. Mr Huckstep speaks in terms of the highest praise of the attention he received at the Hawera Hospital.

On Sunday last, Master Allan Wilkie, whilst after the cows on his uncle's section at Rowan, by some means slipped, and his leg below the knee came in contact with a jagged piece of limb, and Dr. Scott, of Eltham, bad to put thirteen stitches in the wound caused by the slake, which penetrated the lads' leg.

Now that a great many of the settlers from one end of the district to tho other have made ensilage, the weather has turned fine, and several are regretting that they did not wait a bit longer before cutting their grass crops. The question has also cropped up whether ensilage or hay is best tor milking cows during the winter months, some maintaining that ensilage is not good for milk ; others again maintain it must be better than hay, because all the juice is in it. And there you are again, Mr Editor, " When doctors differ who is to decide." If you have an analysis by by you of the two, showing their relative value as food stuffs, it would prove very iateresting and instructive to many who are in doubt. * | Perhaps some of our readers can supply the information.] The Kaponga Dairy Factory Company have, I hear, sold a part of their winter's output for export to South Africa at a fairly good price.

Mr R. Law has a splendid paddock of turnips, which have gone ahead like mushi'OOLns with the showers of late.

Several settlers who still have bush felled are lighting fires, so, in addition to the heat, we are to have a little smoke.

The many friends of Mr and Mrs Baxter, of Lower Rowan road, will regret to hear that their son Arthur is suffering from inflarnation of the lungs. I hear that at Kaupokonui factory they have got the water-power installed, and that it is a great success. Though only one turbine is working, tho power is all that could be desired.

Firewood is a scarce commodity at Kaponga, and it will be a relief to the manager when the water-power is working.