COUNTRY NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9437, 7 August 1889, Page 6

COUNTRY NEWS.

[from our own correspondents.] Tauwuare. Tuesday. THERE is a difference of opinion as to the value of ensilage for dairy cows, and especially ensilage made from green maize. An ounce of practice is, however, worth a. pound of theory; and .Mr. Dodd, of Tauwhare, has settled the matter to his own satisfaction. This winter he is feeding his dairy cows on green maize ensilage, and the milk is sweet, rich, and abundant. In the second week of November last Mr. Dodd sowed ten acres of laud with make, seeding at the rate of two bushels per acre. The crop was cut with the reaper and binder on the 20th of February, and built at once into stack, pressed down with the wire strainers, without reference to the inside temperature of the stack (though the rule is that a thermometer inserted into the stack should register 140 degrees) and it was then securely thatched. For two months past it has kept 35 dairy cows, and is only half finished. That is to say ten acres of land has been made to supply 35 head of cows for the four winter months with a succulent food equal in quality and milk production to ordinary summer feed. The maize being sown very thick and cut young, had not formed ears, and was sweet and succulent, free from stems aud waste. A better sample of .ensilage has not been made in Waikato.

Cambridge, Tuesday. The Cambridge Dairy Factory Company have yet some 14 tons of last season's cheese on hand unsold.

The Pakurauga hounds throw off from Gwynne's Hotel, Hamilton, to-morrow, and

will come on to the CamwT~ T7 Ji==s s the following day meeting °» 11 a.m., at the old schoolh°ou £ Ha U T ay > 16 The value of flax to the carrying out of a longS:? 18 Mto movement here-namely, theW ' red & lake'and the reclamation of the »£ swamp lands, on which a lar-P „ Jjomi Ghundreds of acres-are growing %*?- have been made from time to tiL £ tte,n Mi various landowners to join in I get tb» scheme; but now the Messrs P\L CCmimr pared to enter on the work an,! 7 a 1 Pr». best terms they can for assistant th * who will Denefit directly C tl ththo * taking. * oy th under!

Mr. Garland, of Cambridge Tt Mr. Garland of Cambridge, KaveTl y " last night on " Character," in the r?«H- Ctar to which a large audience was SH appeared well satisfied with th* w!i ,an 'J merit. The Rev. Mr. Griffiths the lecture was diversified with som ' ini excellent musical interludes by \l ? . rea 'iv teurs. Foremost amongst thes* « ar ' u - Burgess, of the Bank of New '/l.u] -Mr. his talented wife. Mr. Burgess I' aml fetched the audience with his m - ° r4 '- v rendering of The Lifeboat •" am? Burgess was deservedly encored'in mrii*! 13 - one charmingly executed song. ' jr °t-QaQ _, . . KmiKiin, Trp,,, The Commission to hear cause w)i hearing should be granted in the V a reand other blocks, is still going on ' Th» ra^roa the Maniapotos has been heard \and ri" 0 Taonui has been adjourned till'\Vin ,°' to allow of Major Scaimell's arrival ' ayevidence is of importance. The mL ? Hetere is on hearing, but it is exno C twn °' the Commission Court will eonclJl •*' business on Friday or Saturday, uu - l ' } [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORKJSFOSDQn Cambridge, Tuesd-C' Messrs. J. Allwill, R. Fawcett J \ Stackqoole, Charles Lake, and James T i were appointed at the meeting on jjatiM 0 ' to carry out the arrangements'in ccmrl 1 with the Waikato Hunt Club's meetbc a Tb Aeoiu. Tuesday There was a considerable amount off ■ ness to-day at the fortnightly sittin-r* '*' R.M. and Warden's Courts. Judnrien'^ S the plaintiffs was given in the. D fo|[ 0 ' ,-; r cases:—W. S. Collins v. F. O'Neal » ? supplied, £3 3s 4d, costs 13s ; j. \\^' i H. Cooper, dishonoured cheque £> 9?-]' costs 10-j ; P. Ferguson v. 0. R. Eeeson -'--' £7S, costs £3 16s ; P. Ferguson, v.V'p-' kett, rent—amount claimed £4S -jmi'J; ""' for £40 and costs, £4 15s ; J. Mood V-' Comes, plaintiff sued to recover of tenement and rent, 121 18s the (Jour' 03 dered defendant to give up possession on* before September 3rd, to pay £3 WV-- j costs, £2 3s, and 7s weekly till lie C ea«f? occupy the premises. In the two folio-?-/ cases the plaintiffs were nonsuited .-—p *y~J gnson v. K. K. Cooper, claim £2!) lis moiw' lent, and M. Cronin v. J. Briant, claim'**? damage for being illegally on premise?' "*] the Warden's Court, H. H. Adams wasSnfi £4 with costs, 225, for employing mentor* timber without a license. Several uf.~~~'. were sued by the Mining Inspector for e rears of rent. The other business was amm, portant.