HALCOMBE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10402, 16 July 1912, Page 2

HALCOMBE.

From One Own Correspondent,

It waa not until after tbe Advocate came to band on Saturday Shat 1 was aware shat a demonstration ot trait tree prnning, spraying., etc , «J* d bsan given here by Mr fofetatterd. Government Pomoiogist. la® s Siowevat, tcat notices ot his Intended visit were placed in the windows o ©nr two stores 'and that the resolfc o such advertising was the attendance of three parsons interested in Ir °* s culture, one of the trio being Mr Jordan, who kindly placed his orchard at tbe service of tbe demonstrator. No better place could have bean selected for tbs purpose as Mr Jordan has a variety .*f young, vigorous and easily get-ataule trees. Now I think the Department should either have notified the orohaidista an this district by postcard or adversHsemsiife of fchQ coming / Had either been done lam sure Mr : Stratford would have had SLe pleasure of speaking and acting to a large and. interested audience in- , stead of performing to such a EBeagre house. Having bad “a tjaby” to nurse I did dot take any Dsnal walks abroad daring the past wet week, and, therefore, did not see the notices, otherwise I should bavo remembered that I had promised one head schoolmaster to take bis advanced pupils through my orchard and to tel! them all I know about fruit growing, and would have / eagerly seized the opportunity of taking them to Mr Jordan’s to be Instructed by a 'professional rather £ban have them . depend upon information received Jtrom an amateur like myself. On Tuesday Past enr school was *v visited by an “ interested gentleman from Ohio, U.S.A., who • sprint the day studying cur methods and nosing onr teachers aari children at work. Acting upon information received a Canterbury headmaster, who is visiting ''schools in the Wangatim educational district for the purpose of picking op pointers, came to oar “Observation School” on Wednesday. Also I’m told that It waa the intention of the Educational Oommisaiou So inspect our school gardens \when on their way from Watiganni to Wellington, bat when U was found that their time and our trains did not “synchronize” the idea be abandoned. That the conduct of our school and the planning and prod nets of its gardens should have attracted sv-ch fluttering aofcioes Is as creditable to Mr Robson and his teaohiag |st«ff as it la. gratifying to our School Committee. I have to congratulate a Haloombe born boy upon having had cue of his stories accepted for publication by 4ho English “Scout.” jMaey of onr boys are too -'much occupied with sp.ire to try to put Cbeir thoughts on paper, or to taka oibora’ thoagths from pi-psr, and I am pleased to find fihat in the opinion of “she editor” “Dave Sfiraohaa” can |do both. JEeap oa doing it, my boy—the work Is always a pleasure if not always profitable. Some are born storytellers, the moat of them are made - and the best way that I know of to stake them is to atnei? the work of the best' writers, then write your boat to plaare yonoelf. The youngest competitor tor literary tame, the softtllssfe teller of wonderful stories Is/the world to-day is the two-year-old daughter of staje stars, Mr ai-d Mrs Mauds, who are publishing their Tot’s talas o£ the fairy land in Which she lives. Hate follows a fall from the aeroplane of -Imagination. I have jost been told of the cruel and destructive work <ot sheep-worrying dogs *-.mong fibs flacks 'of our long farmers. The damage dene by these osTnine marauders'at thin season of vfebe year is uaußnaiSy great and is is that owners of these cowardly ■ ours will either destroy them or keep them chained, ami thus avoid Esapleasnat actions for heavy damages. I’m b lover cf dogs, tout I’ve only the gun for the brace- that will worry and fell! o defenceless abeep £ have heard many complaints of tbe treatment received by patients la cur public hospitals, »nu I was, tiseiefore, more than pl :sse;.i to learn from a friend who is under treatjaaattt in the Pelraerstoii institution t|iafc 'if he were a millionaire he ojnld nol command more aoosideratioa or better attenda-no.. than that be receives at the hands of the &Dotcrs and nurses. Su«h a tribute tbs overworked steff will, 1 hope, them in their noble to relieve suffering and -indace these responsible lor the upbeep of the Palmerston Hospital £■.; pay up and feel good. The great interest taken by both dSxea in our School Buul leads the ( managers to couoludo that the gathering on Friday night In the Foresters’ Hall will provide a record and most certainly the efforts ot the ladies and Gentlemen who are working hard In the ’lnterests of cur Mchool deserve success. * The football match between StanWay and Kimboltaa played at the '{attar place, ©a Saturday, was keanly contested, am! the referee's v qfdict was penalty goal Klmboitcn, Stan way nil, but I have been ts'.lo f»y uevera! that had the referee. and line umpire seeu as much of the gj-ithe ns some ot the spsotators Wlicsn a try for the vanquished was blocked the score would Imva been ttltsied. Our sports,however, admit Ghas it was bad look-rather, than bad tetemfoo that defeated tbesn. in a most interesting article that • tijiSears in the -last issue 'of the Cl Philistine” upon tha invention fiad development of thoi csl eng use atfd its application to farm 'work, . i&bert Hubbard says The M. sßutaeiy Company of La Forte fndiaua, makes a traction oil poll onglno for tiia farmer that pulls. ' tiny, eight breaking ploughs, .Batumi ifse breaking ploughs domes a disc plough coveting the entire width of the eight furrows. Behind tbe disc fa v, drill that sows tha seed, beiilcd the drill is attached a harrow, and tbe oil-pull pulls them all. Two saec supervise this whole operation. • The angina consumes one barrel of kerosene a day auti one barrel of water. When this engine goes out in the morning it carries oa its back fuel for twelve hoars’ work. The cost of the kerosene to-dav is, fsay. five cents a gallon, and the barrel holds forty-two gallons. This equals two dollars and 10 cents. It would cost as much as this to grease your harness if you used horses.