JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 768, 17 March 1910, Page 8

JOTTINGS FROM WANGANUI.

GOOD MAIZE CROPS A ' Hiding though .tho. liapahui.' -district-'y.-'icar- Wanganui;(writes . our travelling r^rrespondent), I .was much- interested .to -)'• that.-nearly• all. the-,.dairymen there have^anarea rof mafee ; to > : supplement tt.v"the . summer• feed. . I?ap_iinui i^.a uonK^derful: country in• the'bprmg : and. up. to but it >■ does not it,anu.a bak.l •such-' as it has .'had ..this, summer,: Si'sb;v thafe;the\growing; qf. maize is an exwise step i ; on -the part oi 1 dairy foil. Moot of them, too, Inio * t plots of- niangels 'arid;carrots,- whion \\ere f,V? . makings'a > very -: fine. ,show. v.V thing which' I had read about, but had /Avis : a ; smnlb : patch - ot i'V' '.Vehoui'mollien''- It looks like, a cross bc : kohl rabi and;, rape. • -It -had onl l ' : liieii- sown- sbraV eight; br; teiuwecks, but tKe inarvenpus grow-thfit-'liau- made ,w»s -. ■ ■Van', eye-opener: . ■ Whether - it .can, be fed , :?? ) wiDff^' : J~''am;-unable: , .-t6;/^y.'?thoiigu : - so far Is have' read: it ;woiild appear as if ••• the ieaives had' to be stripped; and then to stock:■ One.very important' tea.iture'about it waa that,;. -though it was s'& : !gTOvmig f'side'. by- cabbago and ?£Waliflower.V:which' were-riddled• .by - the moth, .it was pei'iivtly.. free'.and. showed l no'.,Sign.-, of - being ".attacked.. ■•._l no *:<*■l fdnrier ; • who i • showed -itr; to me - 'said- that ft**attle'"-afce it eagerly, ' : and.next: year he; intended ("putting Aiv a larger ■ 'area*.', and; ■''jtryingylanibs . ou-\it.';."''No doubt »-lus ex- ; .pferierice" will' ber wot th , . y.vv. -Next-day I was ai Messrs.. Bayly Bios., - 1 '; Who.'reside some five .miles'.'back 1 from • • K n i IwiW'T rode " over some of the pad-,- ' docks with Mi. Horace Bayly One ." ; i -/through -1 which-w'e went had been shut ;.: op;'.it- having .been previously well eaten --'-- out;byciittle;;;and' the' growtliof .young' ■ grass'- was-somcthihg'to stare ' at t| * A. -V-.'';Ergo mob of'- lau'ibs had .' just .-been put v' - inr- aiid- they ■ could, not possibly- help. e>;?A ;«biiig r' well y ;afterv cattle;.-". Nest _we :to' ; seo'-Soiue of the Crape' . paddocks* ■ to Which:;)he.lambs woiild•. be.changed later' Von?-': : Qr.e ; paddock ;.of something 'like . eevonty V'acres ' was iust. perfect.- ■ I don t; '--.- think: any reasonable man-,; could; wish, .^'injtiine; better. A''Theituriiips; were--not i?;^'ilib'fdodi'tt^'''i^mißated/aU : out, S:ijijust:£fc.'.'the ■ critical 5 pferiod;.: the fly. came .til'iiTMel'soil'; a; :> rich ■ 'light. chocolate'; brbwii;. : and. ; grovrs .cocksfoot ' : ;'-'arM! clbver.; tq ; perf«itioii;' though, itis a ft's:'. 1 ;-fiiito'ti^the'li^ht , Not far awav, and a bit farther up tho ;«N'.lb4d, L is. k Mr.-Frank Moore's, large dwell-. - - Mng, .-.'pcfched 'on,' a' knob. -, It ■ woulu be ",;*;iaiffioiil.fc'• to; fiiid .anefvsite: Avennis.: v>;, Smp<;the''House.' runsltfiroughthe./Native.' i ; '.;-.linsh', of..which Mr.'.Moore has preserved - a large quantity. l .At '.night, time,.it is ; with electric lamps/ alUthc. home-v'-J^'SKtiSd'. Deirig"' lit ihvithe;. isainevvmannier.:; ? : ; r /-irromrlthe.'.'.terrace .of ;the'house. $I'there''vis j a - groind ;view. away...over' Kai;. f.U:tjlF>P : wd^^®stmefeVi : ' : ;towards.' : '!'• ;Mr. Moore's'' Hereford, cattle, are a. :twp'rdiv ; v.Being. * "'■'ifio keep up.the standard. bf ..quality * hrhich is so • well • asspciated ■> with ; the v ;-; feeder's nanie. . . • ; ; ■ '"; v -v,:',-'.