HEDGEHOPE.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 9, 2 June 1894, Page 5

HEDGEHOPE.

(From a Correspondent.) What has become of the correspon<£fents who used to keep us so well gjosfced up through your paper P Save they ceased to live among us, or have they ceased to take an interest "Si public affairs P In their silence, ■w.hich we all must regret, I will scribble you a few lines to let the outride world know that we are still in Slka land of the living. With the inclemency of the weather irdie roads got very bad exceptionally • sgarly this season, and as the Forest FI 111 tramway is as far off as ever, ■mdi no appearance of the bridge over tfhe Makarewa river, the bulk of the ferraers still hold their grain, and will Siheiy be obliged to do so for some •S'me yet, as the roads will not improve :xatitch here for the next five months. We have a Farmers’ Club here which meets monthly, and local utafcters are well threshed out, but I Pfeink it will take them all their time, ■ even with the assistance of the memSier for Mataura, to convince the Chavernment of the necessity of expending this railway on to Gore. We have been well supplied with 'Hffir-eshing mills this season, as no less t&han three have been in, and a fourth . ih- on its way, which shows that the axea under crop is increasing, thanks ita the drain plough, We are now beginning to see its value, as the drained ridges last season far exceeded the fiats for yield. There will a large number of these imple’ments at work for the next six weeks. We have had several exhibitions of • drain ploughs here of late—the makers in one case being Messrs “Wilson and McKay, of Winton, and I.rr the other -Mr M. Brown, of the • Scatp. There was a large attendance vn. each case. Messrs Gorman Bros. .-.saJss showed one of Guthrie and Co.’s xatafce. The implements were fully • asriticised, but it is scarcely my jjdhce to enter a critical comparison of g£ie merits and demerits of the imple.S3ae.iits —all who saw them at work will OXiirm their own opinions—the most ./Serviceable plough is bound to come fei the front, I will only say that it is .-rßakter to see machines in natural work than to pin one’s faith to testi...menial s,