WILD HORSES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1182, 18 July 1911, Page 8

WILD HORSES.

ON THE SLOPES OF RUAPEHU. . Our travelling correspondent scut tho following note after a lide through the Wniuuru .district :— Mr. Chapman (of Waionrii) told me that there are u good many wild horses on the run, and on the slopes of Kuapehu. He also told me thero arc some very good creamy ponies on tho mountain, and that, tome time ago, a couple were run in with a. mob, broken-iu, and sold for sixty ■guineas. They were a perfectly-matched paid. Then, some short time afterwards, I was speaking of Ihe matter to a farmer near- Raetihi, and he said that ho knew the man in Auckland who now owns tho ponies, and ho wants one hundred guiueas for them. Every now and I hen .these wild horses require thinning out, to a'.number are shot. ■ Tlie only parts of Vaiuo are the manes aud tails.

A Taranaki writer ;ays:—"Dairymen' are still enjoying a spell from excessive milkim:, but Ihe holiday , period is nearly finished. A few cows here and there have conie'iut.o profit, and -tnoro will soon follow; The proverb of the early bird catching the. worm should apply to thn owners of early cows this winter, mi ,'iceount of the high price of butter, providing they have stacks nf artificial feed, r? the boot, is on the other fool, tlmy will not participate in the good prices nilintr. as pastures nro unusually scanty and bare. Generally, .autumn growth" provides n good bite for stock during midWinter: this year it was of no con.-e----queucc, the rains coming too late offer the.prolonged dry summer."' In the off-season of dairying in Xeiv South .Wales the Department of Agriculture holds a dairy science school. |lhe "school" lasts about two weeks. The cour«e of instruction covers dairy chemistry, elementary bacteriology as applied to dairying, the grading nf cream on a scientific basis, and improved methods of butter manufacture. A fee of 10s. is charged each applicant. Managers, n=si.-t----aiils. and butter-makers are eligible for admission.