FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR JUNE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 58, 4 June 1873, Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN OPERATIONS FOR JUNE.

(From Chapman’s Almanac).

Farm. — Have plenty succulent oats for milch coirs. Sow winter wheat in dry weather, two bushels to imperial acre; steeped to prevent smut —one pound bluestone, seven gallons water, steep ten or twelve hours. Store stock give hay in wet weather, and house them at nisht; boiled food, with a handful of salt, better lor fattening pigs than green food. Hedges may be cut any time next three months ; this is the first rainy month. Pigs

intended for baron may now be killed. Open drains while the ground is soft, the water will show the fall. Sow oats op fern land wltich has lain fallow, two bushels to one cwt. of guano per acre ; harrow the ground once before sowing, then harrow guano with seed ; when about, three inches high pass the roller over it. Kitchen Garden. —Ground for parsnips, Alii jus, aud carrots, for following season, manure, trench up in a rough state, so as the weather may act on i: for a month or so. Tie up endive fur blanching, gather leaves in one hand, then put two eabbage leaves round it, tie it with flax ; will be fit to cut in a fortnight. Clear refuse off vacant ground and trench ft up till spring. Sow cabbage, cauliflower, and lettuce for spring planting, they will not run to seed if sown this month ; clear the slugs with lime. Sow a few red cabbage for pickling. Fruit Garden.-—Plant fruit trees end of this month. Trench two feet deep, then mix

about one gallon bonedust with the soil where each tree is to be planted; let the bonedust extend a little beyond the roots, it will draw the roots towards it; if the soil is poor, one peck is not tQO much id one tree; incorporate well with the soil before planting; stake the trees and defer pruning till the sap begins to flow, about September. Pruning is of great importance first year or two; trees obtained from the nursery, planted anti not pruned, make very little growth the first year, and many of the shoots die back, and throw out towards the autumn a number of watery shoots, halfripened. Strawberries may now be planted on highly-manured, trenched soil, in rows two feet from row to row, and eighteen inches between each plant. Prune vines as soon as the leaves are shed. Trees established in the soil may be pruned. Raspberries and gooseberries put down on well-manured, trenched soil. The ground cropped with pumpkins, vegetable marrows, pie-melons, &c. Flower Garden.—Roses, dress with decomposed stable manure; if any are throwing up young suckers cut in the roots and re-plant. This should be done every three years to insure good blooms, the ground trenched, manured, and a little fresh soil added. Plants to come in succession—crocus, narcissus, hyacinths, anemones; flower borders dug, walks trimmed, creepers cut and tied in; running roses cut back, especially all shoots that have a profusion of bloom. .

The Ormond Educational District. —’ The following extract is from the Provincial Government Gazette of the 7th instant:— Starting from the Eastern corner of the Wairenahika Block following the Southern boundary of said Block to a point where it meets the junction of the main road and Toanga road, thence following the Toanga road to the Pouparau block, hence following the Western boundary of said block and a straight line to the Waipawa stream; hence across the said stream to the mouth of the Whakaahu Creek, following the said creek to its junction with the VVaikakariki Creek to its source ; hence by a straight lint- to the Northern boundary of the Ormond settlement along the Eastern boundary of said Settlement and to the Eastern corner of the Wairenahika block, the starting point. Meeting to Elect Committee, at the School House, on Saturday, 24th May, at 4 p.m.

An Attack on Shortland Discussed.— C. F. Mitchell, M.P.C., who has for the last two years lived in the Ohinemuri district, near the Paeroa settlement, came into Shortland, and reported to the Resident Magistrate that he did not consider it safe to remain any longer at Ohinemuri. Mr. Mitchell stated to Captain Fraser that nt a meeting held at Ohinemuri the natives discussed the plan of attack on Shortland in all its bearings—their mode of entry, amount of damage to be done, and mode of retreat. Mr. Mitchell considered it to be his duty to come in at once, and give information to the chief magistrate of the district, and he (Mr. Mitchell) informed Captain Eraser that he should hold him responsible for the safety of the district, now that he had been warned. Mr. Mitchell has removed his stores and household goods from his place at the Paeroa. We have no wish to comment upon the above at length, because we have no information of the Native meeting at Ohinemuri beyond Mr. Mitchell’s statement to Captain Fraser; but we are disinclined to accept as a fact that there is any danger to out-settlers in this district. The professions pf the natives have all along been friendly, and the chiefs have too much to lose to embroil themselves in the difficulties of their Waikato friends without some better inducement than has at present been offered. — Thames Evening Star. The dangers of the streets of London, says the Pall Mall Gazette, have arrived at such a point that it is doubtful whether in a short time anyone will be found brave enough to attempt to cross Regent-street and Piccadilly, and whether it will not be found necessary to establish some telegraphic communication from one side of the street to the ot her to enable business to be carried on without risk of life.