BOMBAY

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 471, 6 May 1919, Page 3

BOMBAY

CORRESPONDENCE FODDER IN ABUNDANCE In you issue of 29th ultimo, there appeared a news item entitled "Bombay Fodder Shortage." It would be interesting to settlers in this fertile and prosperous district to know the source of your information, because the report is about as far re moved from the truth as could well bo imagined The fact is that Bombay district, instead of being in the pitiable plight described by your correspondent is not only well off for feed, but is, without diubt, tbe greenest spot to be seen at the present time between Mercer and Auckland. A.B to the stock suffering acutely from hunger, your informant might kindly tell us exactly where this state of things does exist. He must surely have been thinking of the-' Far North" that we have read so much about lecently in the press. His rf fereice to hay shortage is equally ludicrous. There is far more hay in the settlement this season than Inst year, several, for instance, who previously hud about 1 ten ton=, have this year upwards of twenty fiv« tons It is considered indeed by some of the oldest settlers that the cut is actually the largest on record Characteristic foresight and good management has thus been shown in making ample provision of: winter fodder Anyone who makes a tour round the hill can verify thwe farts ; and at the same time observe ♦h > splendid condition of the herds, which was remarked upon only yes terdny hy a former resident just returned from the Waikato Then the final reference to the turnip crop, it is quite as absurd as the rest. Few turnips are grown in this quarter, comparatively speaking, and on the whole, this year's yield is as good as usual, and certainly better than in many districts in the province, Bombiy can show your correspondent a crop of twenty acres in Mill Road, and several other smaller areas of tiner quality and yield, which would speedily dispel his delusion about the matter.

In conclusion, if your journal had not such a widely scattered circulation, beyond the immediate vicinity of Pukekohe, it would be unnecessary to reply to the erroneous report at all, became the excellent nature of Bombay land, and the remarkable richness of its pastures, even throughout the driest of seasons, are fully recognised by all those acquainted with the locality.—Yours etc. J. B. McKINNEY Bombay, 3rd May The repoit to which exception is taken c&me from a farmer of the Bombay -Kama Rama district What his object could have been in giving such evidently misleading and prejudicial information we cannot understand. We are very pleased indeed to be able to publish the above letter, showing, as it does, that the district, far from languishing, is in a most flourishing condition—Ed