Te Rau-a-moa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 333, 18 October 1907, Page 2

Te Rau-a-moa.

(fjok OUR OWN ORRE’POMDBNT. ) Spring has been very backward thia year, winery weather experienced daring the last month. Gows are in poor condition and tbefpareent—age of losses has been above the average. Treated well, the dairy cow is a veiy profiUble animal, and if she once loses ber condition that means a hrs of cash to the owner. There is always a certain amount of growth in the grass throughout the winter, but for several months of the year the cows require a crop to keep them in coadi* tion. As a business proposition to every man farming bush land, allow ma to submit tbe following. Let each settler whnse falling is old enough spend the sum of one hundred pounds in-stumping. This should clear from ten to twenty acres, and with say ten acres under the plough, nett returns would be doubled or even trebled. Tbe interest on the sum borrowed would be met by the price of a couple of year, lings, which otherwise without crop would die. On the far famed Waimate Plains, a great deal of cropping is done Cor cows, and if in that extra fertile spot the grass is deemed iosuffic«nt how much more necessary is cu-’* tivation wanted here. The gross returns from our cows go to prove they are not fed properly. The soil, having grown chiefly tawa bush, is rich in humus, and can grow almost aoy crop wi'hout manure. No settlement ever prospered without tho plough, tbe k«*v to successful dairying. Every ore hnuld strive to his c »ws fat au -he year round an I this desirable 3 are of thing * caupled with timber cutting n tbe slack season should make Te Rau-i moa “a land flowing with mi k and money.” Roads around here are in a deplore able state and with loss of stock, biaed with shortness of provision-’, sickness, bad weather and stray cars w> om bobody owns amongst the flocks makes our lot not a happy one. But we are spared of one worry at le**t, and those who haye so much to say about unearned increment (which \vo»-d is a mimnmer aid ought to read 'hard earned increment’) envy us in ihis respect. Lius be thankful that the secvani-girl problem dots not concern us.