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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2187, 25 March 1874, Page 2

Tub Football Season will bo opened on Wednesday next by a match between the Taranaki and Egmont clubs. It is anticipated that a large nnmber of spectators will be on the ground to witness this manly gamo. The names of the Tarauaki team will be giron in in our next. The Traffic uroN the Canterbury Rail, ways is becoming significant. From a return for tlie month of January, pnblishod in a Provincial Gazette, it appears that the receipts amounted to. £8,123 10s. Bd., as compared with £4,G78 Is. sd. for the correspouding month of last year. Of the former amount, passongers furnished £2,559 os. 2d., and goods, labour, storage, &.C., the remainder. Freight inwards from Lyttelton ronched the unprecedented sum of £2,373. These ngnres represent the takings upon the railways, at the existing ratio, as £100,000 aycar .in round numbers, and traffic is still increasing, more especially as owing to the bountiful harvest, we shall have a largo surplus of grain for exportation. A Coffee and Chicory Establishment. — The Canterbury correspondent of the Otago Daily Times writes — " Mr. Trent, whooarries on a large wholesale coffoe and chioory establishment in town, has a chicory farm in con. nection therewith at Tern pie ton, and he has been giving the Lincoln Farmers' Club the rosnlt of his experience in subsoil ploughing. He instances a paddock of his which was sown in Cheralier barley in November, which was estimated to yield sixty bushels to the acre ; but the catorpillara destroyed twenty bushels per aoro, and yet the paddock beinpr twenty-five norea in extent, yieldod one thonsand bushels. Next year he snbsoiled strain, and got in a good crop of chicory. Next year he sowed down in Canadian oats and grass, and though a dry season he got fifty-five bushels to the aore ; and from the paddock he has succeeded in taking off the following crops without laying down to grass :— First year, chicory; second year, ohicory, subsoiled ; third year, barley ; fourth year, chicory, snbsoiled ; fifth year, oats and grass ; five and a- half years, rape ; sixth year, ohicory, subso\led." MALAPRoriANA. — Mrs. Malaprop, good soul ! proposes to distribute tractß among Good Tern« plars, who, she regrets to hear, are living iv. a Btito of spiritual destitution.