Farming Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 288, 14 April 1894, Page 2

Farming Notes.

(By ,Agbicola.) Messrs Chamberlain Bros., of Feilding, have a very nice property, situated 011 the banks of the Kiwitea stream, a few miles beyond Birmingham, which is managed by Mr W. Chamberlain. - The firm has just lately made extensive improvements on their property by the erection of a large woolshed, 47ft by '21ft, covered with iron, a sheep dip built of concrete, and a large tank, the frame of which is made of totem and lined with iron This tank will hold 3,350 gallons of water. Provision has been made by building the shed on long piles and the space in under will be utilised as a night pen. This is a wrinkle for farmers when building their wool sheds. The whole of the work has been very neatly and efficiently done by Mr W. Chamberlain himself. He has also a cage erected orer a deep creek, by which he has a short way of access to a portion of his farm reserve, whence he draws his supplies of timber. There is also a very useful contrivance by which he draws his water supply from n constant running stream, consisting of a windlass and a wire rope by which a bucket is passed up and down ia which the water is drawn. Mr W. Bathe, an old West Coaster, has a nice farm situated in the same locality as Messrs Chamberlain Bros. The climate here is quite mild compared to* that on the hills where Birmingham is situated. There is verified by the splendid crops of grajJes Mr Bathe grows in the open. He kindly presented me with a bunch of the lucious fruit of the vine. We had a talk of the Golden Days of tlio West Coast, and found that we had come in contact before, some twenty years ago. Mr Bathe has been a farmer on thjf banks of the Ahauro river and witnessed the washing away ot the principal portion of his land after years of hard toil in telling bush and making it payable. He concluded in his own mind after selling out or "giving his form away" as he termed it — that he would never take up bush land again, but he wus induced »t tho time of the formation of the Wanganui Small Farm Association to change his mind. Ho has a nice property of tivo E hundred acres, I I risked Mr S. J» Thompson, tote o£ the Rod House, Fcildin& awl found him milking cows and drafting shefcp as if "to the manor bora* Mr Thompson has a very utee tawa ©£ throe hutidred Acres beyond Fomberton, on which he ha* trove a consideral>le timouut <tf impra>s&tt&rts since settling on it *l»ut twdhre tiJftJMKs agty, Mr T)tt»mpsoft I*a* «&&ted &>wiv-U» Cnf»tt life *Wtl Kta* it <&*<&&<fttt&fy W^N, Th«e sewtei* ift IVmbwton ml tlwt thes wt> xm&w-khi WUt^d from the \« u l^^ fett% ih^- m>s working for an \ «wt*rt- ** \tot Oe«i««U Uimb whkh they N w\U h*\\j "b-htm i\\x>. Ot»t» bridge is