Te Rau-a-moa.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 339, 22 November 1907, Page 2

Te Rau-a-moa.

(from our own correspondent.) The milk supply to the factory is increasing daily, and the stock once more are in good condition. Little rain has fallen during the last fee weeks giving the settlers an opportunity to get in their crops. I notice Messrs Honore Bros have a few acres of rape just showing green. This is the first crop of this kind ever fried bare in cultivated ground. Last week some of the settlers we>e burning off second growth on tha old clearings. Ar this time of the year the dead fern burns readiiy, as there •is no fresh growth to suppress the fire. Everybody is alive to the harmful effect of fern and wineberry, etc., which have come to be looked upon as a robber, l growth occupies spaca that grass should be growing on. and also spoils the feed in close proximity to it.

Fruit trees have a flue show of young fruit and gardem will soon be worth paying a nocturnal visit to. Shearing is in progress and a satis, factory clip is reported. Bub in new bush country like this the sheep bring home only part of their season’s fleeces and as if to make matters worse it is second class wool at that, being log stained. This is a further example of the many disadvantages the piooaar has to face.