WAIKAKAHI NOTES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 150, 24 April 1914, Page 3

WAIKAKAHI NOTES.

(By "Driftwood.") The weather is very unsettled, and thfe grgjind is very buggy in places, and it is har,d tusselling for a mill to get about. The rjdges are fairly dry, but the gullies an- bisjf bogr holes. The threshing is on a par with that in most other places—not too

«-ood. A fliod deal of wheat has (he blight, and likewise the potatoes, 'though (here are a few de.ce.nt crops of (lie. latter here and there. NEiW, CONDITIONS OP PAY cA\u«r: friction. One of the Waikakahi fanners spoke slightingly of a mill crew, and on one o,f the men asking him his meaning he commenced to take oil his coat, but thought bettor of it on seeing the determined look on the inan"s face, when the latter quietly said "Two can play at that, game," and buttoned up his coat ready for the fray. The mill, the driver, or the men generally get the brunt of a bad shift, now that shifts have to be paid for. and the farmers (some of them) never take into consideration the state of the ground, which is the real cause.