if properly managed. The long continued drought, will it is feared be the reverse of beneficial to the barley and prove very injurious to the Potatoes and turnips. The latter have already, on many farms been completely destroyed, a great loss to the owners who rely in a great manner on this Vegetable for the support of their cattle during the Winter Months. The present appearance of our bullocks and cows fully bears out what has often been said of Taranaki, Namely that it is a country well suited for rearing live stock; left to shift for themselves it is difficult to say what the cattle eat; let it be what it may, they look in as good condition as if they fed on the finest Lincolnshire grasses - The few horses in the settlement do very well during the summer on the indigenous grass, but in the winter require some more nutritious food to keep them in working order. Sheep thrive better on artificial grasses than the natural pasture, the latter is too coarse and not eaten by them unless driven to do so by hunger - For large flocks, the open plains to the Southward are more adapted and in the course of time when the disputes arising out of the conflicting land claims, become settled rearing sheep will be found a much more profitable occupation than tilling the soil. Farming hitherto, has paid those who have devoted themselves to it, but indifferently; The price of Labour at one time completely