WAIKATO NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 156, 17 May 1909, Page 5

WAIKATO NOTES.

Correspondent.)

The weather is sharp and bright after the sain of last week. 1 hear that Mr Moran«lt. stationmaster at Hamilton, is to be transferred to Palmerston North, and not Mercer, as originally notified; MrR. MaNab lectures on general military training on the Uth isnt.

Mr R. W. Roche, in an interesting article contributed to a local paper, describes his visit to Southland, and his impressions of the province. Large areas are devoted to grain crops.mainly eats. The turnip crops are good this year. One crop he saw on £4O an acre land yielded tf» tons to the acre of Green Globe turnips. This was heavily manured, the farmer» believing in manuring all good lands. A potash manured crop gave 50> tons of Mammoth soft purple top turnips to the acre. Me found little cocksfoot grown. the staple S¥»as being ryegrass. The reads were alt metalled and winter or summer he thought were the finest in New Zealand. The quality of tne bullocks was as good as tho«<? of Waifcato. but they were not so targe. Summing up he declare the Waikato climate superior and though they have bigger root crops in Southland the cost of manure is heavier and the labour of thinning is an additional tax. Our dairymen draw just as large cheques as they, even if our grain crops are not so great. Waikato he thinks is still good enough for him. A space 80 by 4»> feet has been allotted the Agricultural Department at the coming Waikato Winter Show, it being understood that the display wilt excel anything seen in the past The entries in the turnip- competitions at the Show have been very few in number, there being not a single entry for Messrs Laurie and Co's 4f> guinea cup. an only two for the Association con> petiticn. in which ten guineas worth of prizes were offered. The time for 'entries has now been extended for 7 days from date of the meeting. anJ further entries we invited. This extension does not refer to the 40 guinea competition. Rain fell on til day* in April in Hamilton, the total fait being 2.19 Inches. The maximum fall was .92 on the 11th.