RUATANGATA.

Northern Advocate, 12 May 1915, Page 7

RUATANGATA.

ME I .DRUM'S HILL. Settlors arc keenly awaiting the completion of the extensive alteration ■■ to this hill, especially now that the formation work has been done, also a ■■•onsiderablo amount of metalling. i KEW HRIDGff REQUIRED. The old bridge on the lower Ruat.mgata road, opposite Mr Greeves' old place, very much requires replacing by a new one. Coming down the hill ai other than a walking pace, with a laden waggon lends the impression, while crossing over it, that the structure is anything but safe. CATTLE SALES. The demand for cattle at the recent ■monthly sales was not. keen especially stores, mainly attributable to the fact that a shortage of feed is in evidence on mosi holdings. With the event of spring it is generally expected that good prices will rule for all classes of stock. Beef, however, ] will naturally be in demand throughout, ihf: winter months. WEATHER. The past, fortnight's weather conditions have been most favourable to the farmer occasional light rains prevailing, with the absence of a drying sou- . therly wind. As the days are becoming shorter and consequently the duration of the sun's rays less, the prevailing weather is all the more welcome to promote all possible growth - ■eri: the winter sets in. GREEN MANURING. Very often this method of replenishing the soil with humus, etc., is dismissed and deemed advisable and neci'.sf.nry by the settlers, but somehow or oilier in general this is how far J - ;.,roeu manuring gets. The crop that m;:y. or could, have been utilised for Mich a. purpose, is often devoted to so:no other cause, and so the natural ] ■::i);:ustion of humus goes on. Miss ■Maii'.vlebag, however, has set. the desir- >■!( example, having, some months ago, . sown oats and millet in an acre of ground that, previously had an early „ crop of potatoes. Last week she had ploughed under a growth up to 3ft tfin In length and in flower. With n view of t ; , anKi>lriiT l ung onions thereon in ;;;>mu a month's time. PERSONAL. A!' , K. S. Stevens, East tiiitangaf:i ;-.."■ !7CKt] teacher, has received an appointment in Whitikahu school. Mr Lilicy. senr.. lias just returnod from a (href weeks' holiday trip, havin;; been on a visit to relatives and frir-ndr. in nnd about Auckland. \' ; ss Margaret Lewi:-' is H/mndinp. In , !' ■ :■;:]!.urn , <-';-'hoo] holiday;; in our midr-i'. '";• ,Io" Tlinriiurn is on a visii ;n i rii'Mii:-: ;;; :hc Wad' , and Auckland. J Mr iiohorfs has just brought a Ihi-.-Id! of ,'-:!KM'p into Iho neighbourhood. w>OTy»KsgM»wiiM«iuieiJiiiiaanß^^