LOCAL & GENERAL

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 September 1913, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

On page 4 to-day appears artio- ' les, entitled "Cycling and Motoring Notes" and "The Battleship's Visit." The death occurred early this morning (Wednesday), at Napier, of Sir "William Russell, a veryold settler and noted politician. Poultry keepers who are anxious to fatten their chicks and get them to put on flesh quickly, should always keep a piece of linseed oil cake soaking 111 the water with which they mix their soft, food. -In "reddin' up" the house of a well-known Central Otagoite, who died recently, his relatives came upon a "rich patch. 5 ' Tucked away in the heel of an old boot was the sum of £65. Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch, since re accepted the chair of English literature at Cambridge, has blossomed out as a very witty lecturer. Illustrating the careless and foolish use of fancy phfases, says "London Opinion," lie told the story of a telegram a babu sent from Bombay to announce the death of his mother. The babu's telegram ran: "Regret to announce that the hand which rocked the cradle has kicked the bucket." By yesterday's post a number of local residents received a "chain" letter containing a prayer, wh'cn they were requested to copy out and send to nine persons within four days. Persons rviio complied with the request won? informed that they would be free from calamity, while ♦"hnsp who passed it by were thro.itoncd with misfortune. It was also predicted that on the ninth day th.2 person who carried out the directions would meet with great joy In Taranaki, the working farmer, his wife and family are in only too many cases mortgaged up to the hilt, and, though slaving , their hardest, still make, in these days of the milking-machine, the cream separator, and the refrigerator, with biutter at Is per pound, only the same bare living that their predecessors made twenty years ago with butter at 6d per pound (says Mr G. Fowlds). The reason for this is obvious to the man who realises that the price of dairying, land twenty years ago was £10 to £14 per acre, whereas to-day it is £50, £60, or £75 per acre. The rise in the price of land has discounted all the advantages arising from the use of improved machinery and methods, all the advantages of the cheaper money provided by the late Liberal Government, all the advantages offered in the shape of better roads and bridges, and a better railway service, and until land monopoly and land speculation be abolished, all attempts, no matter on what lines, to improve the position of the working farmer and the farm labourer must inevitably . be discounted by these same ad- ; verse influences.

When preserving eggs don't . trust to luck, but use "Samm)," the sure egg preserver, and the oggs will be good for 12 months or | more. No thin shells, or broken yolks; every egg perfect. Price Is per bottle, sufficient for 15 to ] 20 dozen eggs, from (J. S. Keedwell, Dispensing chemist, —Advf.

At Otaki Races, yesterday, the President's Handicap was won by Undecided. Mulga Bill ran second and Peroneal tliird. "Henry W. Longfellow/ 5 wrote a scholar of eleven, "was born in Portland, Maine, while lTis parents were travelling in Europe. He had many fast friends, among the fastest were Phoebe and Alice Cary." During November, 1911, there was sown on the Moumahaki State Farm experimental plots of various kinds of fodder lucerne. The results as tested by the yield per acre for the 1912-13 crop, are substantially in favour of the colonial variety. The record of the yields is as under:—Colonial 33.24 tons per acre: French 20.94, Hunter River 32.82, Hungarian 22.80, American 22.74, Turkestan 17.70. Peruvian 22.17, and Arabian 19.87.