Oparau.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 399, 19 February 1909, Page 2

Oparau.

(FROM OUB OWN 00KBK8P0ND«NTJ Going along the Oparan road I saw borne nice heavy crop on a fiat cut and stocked, another crop of oats, a good crop of duo oats, about 2| miles from Oparan a rather targe patch besido some newly fallen bash, and on first ploughing a small experimental patch grown without manure. I may say that with the exception of about 12 acres of a ton crop for chafl, grown on first furrow, no manure wa« used in Oparan for crops. Up the* Oparan Biver I noticed a 60 bunbel to the acre crop of wheat, one 1| ion per acre and one two ton per sore crops. The area of oats and wheat crops a< Oparan exceeds consideribly that oif former years since the advent of tbi» settlers, before which Op«raa was quo of the beat wheat fields of the King Country. Wheat seem to thrive here better than other cereals Barley sawn on first ploughing this year was smothered by fern. The soil here only wants proper cultivation to grow crop* of a very superior quantity and quaiiiy.