CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 83, 28 September 1911, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS. To the Editor. £ir.—May .1 trespass upon your spact briefly in an appeal to the fanners, who are using brain a-s well as muscle in the endeavor to make two blades of grass grow where only one is growing. The Agricultural Department is anxious to help fanners to do this, and oilers every facility possible. As pointed out in youi columns last week, the department oilers through the Agricultural Sociefy to provide manures, seed, and an expert to direct operations, free of charge',, and when the crop is grown, in belongs to the fanner. A simple illustration should make it quite clear, thus: A farmer planting five or ten acres- of swedes or other .crop in a paddock sets aside, say, half an acre.and treats it under thoj instructions given by the expert, using manure and seed supplied by the department. The half-acre is prepared the -suno as the remainder of the held; the same care in weeding, thinning, etc., is taken. Nature demonstrates the results when the crop has matured, and every settler in the district may get full particulars of the success or failure of .such treatment. What is needed now is for those who are sufficiently interested to come forward and undertake the experiments on their own farms. The expert will meet the fanners by arrangement and furnish all particulars. Will all those who are willing to join in the proposal meet the committee at the Agricultural Society's office, Egmont street, on Saturday next, 23rd, at- 2 p.m., or hand- in their names to the secretary by that timeV—l'am, etc., W. AMBURY. j ELECTRICITY FOR THE KITCHEN.

To the Editor. Sir.—Your interesting article in Wednesday's issue on "Domestic Electricity" is well-timed. Can not our up-to-dato Electrical Committee get into touch with the manufacturers of the cleclric cookers referred to? They would be received with open arms by scores of folk who would only be 100 glad to relegate'the gas fumes and much neglected gas meters to the scrap heap. Now that a wider -cheme is afoot, allowance should be made by our energetic councillors, and power and plant provided for supplying every household with electric cookers at a moderate rental.—l am. etc.. 'W.C.T.U.