STORING KUMERAS

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 23 January 1919, Page 3

STORING KUMERAS

A correspondent writes : " I raise quite a few kumaras every season, .and for the past three years I have packed them in ordinary sawdust, just enough to keep each one apart from the next. Of course I have my kumeras dry, and also the sawdust. I keep them in a dry semidark basement. My boxes are about 4ft x 3ft x 2ft 6in. I nerer have more than a dozen spoiled kumeras in the season, and keep them right up to the time that kumeras are ready again." Another North Auckland correspondent writes to the same effect, and states t hat the Natives are also adopting the sawdust-pack-ing method in place of the old system of ruas.

DESTRUCTION OF RABBITS WITH STRYCHNINED OATS. Mr W. M. Munro, Fields In- i spector, Canterbury, reports as follows :— " I recently carried out two trials in poisoning rabbits with strychnined oats. On the same ground upon which I conducted the test phosphorized pollard had been laid three weeks previously, but with poor results. The first morning after I had laid the strychnined oats ninety-seven rabbits were picked up, and there were also several others which had been eaten by hawks. This was regarded as a very satisfactory result, but on the second morning, after the trial was repeated, over three hundred rabbits were picked up. Very little of the oats was to be seen. I have used very many diffierent methods during my experience in rabbit-destruction, but I can confidently state that poisoning with strychnined dais has given by far the most satisfactory results.