PHEASANTS.
To the Edit..-- of the Hekalo. Mir. -In your rep ,rt of the la-t 'n.-elin;- uf ;'•■ Ae,-!i,,iu!isui,n s- ~;,.■•• .:,._. chairman is stated to have r:iv.-u it as his opini ,:i Ihat, pheasant- do not injure you-i-crops, a :i.f a ■.ibtri fanner- complain-d of the injure. :'i:jv w.re merely indui-dnsr in what lie elegantiV terms • bunkum." These ..-. .itlem- .1 iuM-t. be •■' her w. .ful!\ ijnorant ~f the subject upon v. ,ieh they h izarded tlu-e opinions, or thev w.ifully .-hut their eye- ;.. t!;e mi-ehiei' in tu--ir ra.'rnitv for sport. ! ,v I am oontid-it ti.it liic majority ~f the -irtu.rs in this t bit tine injury .h.-„. to yvnnV ,-rop- by pheasants equals -~-y ,_-gol they may do th..-- ci-,.p- m caterpillar's or ere-i-c'.s. I have spent -oine few years ill tiiis pr.ivinc. and th- greater part oi ihe time i:i tie- agricultural districts north and south of Auckland, and ' -r - cm-tantlv heard settlers mvei-thiu-- _•-.;... eii-a-ants" an 1 the injurv none b-, tu.-m. and have frv.-uentlv wi-ne'sscd th- re-uiis of their depredations, especially in li-id- ofinaizu ():i ! v;i-':,kL time I'had an entire crop, that had been put in for fi-ldrr. .lest roved before it 'ha i time to .uoM it- o-.v.-;, theyoiiii.'.-hooti bcimjnipued o:!' as sj.n a- l hey -bowed above --round. Potatoes arc no' safe' from them, f„■ ; h-v take the set from the -re.nl. and I have' s. en them destroyim- the hearts of cabbages. Tiie-e examples in ay, an 1 I have no doubt d .., -e-:n very paltry and unimportant to the Auckland bu-im-s men ami wealthy ur.izir:--wiio form tin- Acclimatisation Socie: and who look forward to the enjoyme:.' "* the shoein- s.-.u-on, and pooh-pooh any • eu;,'units tu.i: may ten! to deprive then. ■■ hat enjoyment, but tj the ln.iu t ha" * 111 —T -. -il lot a liviuj, and to whom the -os- ~-• -, :; -.1 matter t j be p j. di-p >..,hcd o ,wu as •• bunkum ' !.,y per-jus wh ■ evi iei:' y iiave no oppirturi;-a-sertious.—lauu -V-. A W,;. !: -:ing Farmer. IMPOP.TAXT TO FLAX DBE<>ERS. T„> t'ue Editor of the IIe!:a?.:.. llu\ procure ! by tie- pro,-.-- wih be of far b-f ■!.-. of n,,;e ir. tin-- results—viz.. the ease with which each bundle , :' iibr.- o:::i be iv-jived eonnio.-e then : bv no other ut'.'Cis- wa- • ii-jtr cehereuoc so far iv •■ ■■-. .1." When the t!a\ lias passed throuuh the obii.jue b-atinix machines n.w used, it should be subjected to the above pv..ce-s. As many ot' tin' mil's nave steal-, b elers. a steam pine coil! i very ,--a-i!y '.< • hud on t ■ a tank which would contain several ton- of tibre, tiile.l up with water, which would bent it to ilie require 1 temperature. It is we'll known that -team at a hi-ui press -r-- will h-at water with a verv -mali e ,n-umption ol fuel, aui the expen-e would therefore be nothing as compared with the ereatly increased Talue of the tibre when the gum i; removed. —1 am Flax.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1967, 7 May 1870, Page 5
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