TIKORANGI. (FROM OUR OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 8994, 29 January 1891, Page 3

TIKORANGI. (FROM OUR OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

January 28. — Harvesting of oats has begun, but the grain has suffered badly with the almost continuous . rain, and the rust is in it. - Where it is a heavy crop it has been beaten down, thereby making it difficult for the machine to cut any other than the hoad3, leaving far the greater part of the laid down straw on the ground. . This -straw will, ; I think, be badly wanted for the coming winter. I do not think that either grass seed, oats, or wheat crop will be very profitable to the grower this year. Grass, I do not think, was ever more abundant, or stock in better condition for the summer. • ■' On Saturday the crews that rowed in the Ladies' Boat Race at Waitara met' and drew lots for the different articles given as prizes for the race. A challenge was sent tip from the Waitara Club to row a race, their juniors against the Tikorangi juniors for £5, conditionally that the Waita-a Club be allowed 'to change their coxswain. The Tikorangi Club met, and decided to row their junior crew that rowed at Waitara against the junior crew of the Waitara Clvb — ix. t . crew against crew that rowed at the late regatta — for £20. The Waitara Club was not on, though. The factory is putting through a lot of milk now. The factory began work with two small separate! s and- two men. They have removed these separators and got in two large ones, and three men engaged, and I hear are -turning out 50 kegs a week. ■ It now takes the men nearly the whole of each day to - get the milk through, and clean up, so from the increase in the output I hare no doubt it _ pays the proprietor, considering that he gives from 6d to 6J per lb for the butter in, the milk, and has to pay for separating and making the butter, he must have a_ better market than settlers who' have to sell at 5d per Ib, a price that it is evident the factory cannot produce at.- - - - - r ■ ■-' ■.' ~* : l < - - . ' -