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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16838, 29 December 1928, Page 11

Owing to the showery weather during the past week hay-making operations have been held back considerably, writes the Matamata correspondent of the Waikato Times. A large amount of grass is cut and lying in the paddocks, and as the crops are mostly

heavy a good deal of labor will be required to get the fodder ready for stacking. Even on farms where a quantity of ensilage is made some hay also is being saved. There should be no shortage of feed for cattle in the autumn, as the growth has been well above the average up till now, in marked difference to the conditions obtaining last year. Naturally the milk supply is keeping up well. Already a pen or two of weaner calves have been on the market, and a Hinuera settler received the remarkably good price of £+ per head for weaner Jersey heifers at a recent sale.

The extensive milking ..operations whicn have been deyeippe ,1 . this season among the. Maoris in the TPangamii River district are already. , ; pstifyiajr the experiment, says a "Wanganui paper. Practically the v-bole of those who joined the scheme "Jinv* been entering into the work with mueh-zeal, ami the icsults to-day are to be seen on the arrival of the up-river steamers at tho landing. As many af 70 cans nave come as a consignment. The upriver settlements give every-promise of becoming of considerable importance.