Farm Notes

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43319, 30 April 1908, Page 1

Farm Notes

SxKmar peasants help each other by means of an institatioa knovra as the . moba. A man ■who has not hands ■uffioient to plough or reap his farm, ; . calls in. the moba—that is to say, invite, all lus/neighli ours to come and help him. He pays nothing for this . service,providing only generous ; supplied of food , and drink ; but V wheh any of them apply . for the ds understood that he will take his turn. ... ?'" J '• ’■ '■ ,V. : ' Several settlers ,on the, Tamaki Block: applied to the Hawke’s Bay Land Board for assistance in consideration .of'the damage caused by recent fires. -They asked, not for seed, but it* for borne compensation .for the loss of yya' season and destruction of fences. I4e ranger reported having visited : block, and he suggested that ■ ,?certam settlers be allowed two years occupation' without payment of rent. 0 ;• It was decided to forward the ranger’s to the Minister for Lands, and P ask him to give it his favourable consi&eration. : ; .. ry < y ; ' Testimony to the' statement that bee-keepers^are newer subject to rheumatism was given by Dr. j • Kennedy in a lecture at Hastings last week. The accounted ' for the immtinity of apiarists from .rheumatism by stating, that when a bee a sting the poison iajectedyknown as formic jfaoid, had a , direct counter influence upon the in the body. He had been p'from rheumatism before he becaims, interested in bee-keeping, but eincathen the rheumatic pains had ' completely disappeared. Mr ; Hopkins, the Government bee expert recorded a similar,experience. You can’t. get away from the fact that you cannot buy better or cheaper J. I*; .' • than at Gahagan’s Economic.