HERE AND THERE.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1918, Page 7

HERE AND THERE.

By "Rambler." Many and loud are the complaints of housewives at the quality of kerosene retailed to them. "What makes it flicker and splutter, mother?" "Oh, my children, it must have water in it!" Another inspector wanted to analyse kerosene and protect the consumers. How many hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling loss has the oft-cursed blackberry and gorsc meant to the North Taranaki lands? I venture to hazard if boxthorn and barberry had been used for hedge-growing instead fully £lO could be added per acre to the value of these lands. Why was the keeping in check of blackberry and gc-rse neglected in, the past? Was it because of the old cry being given heed to of too many inspectors? The Maori is having just now what a Maori really enjoys—a real good time of it. The Act giving him the right to sell his land is giving him plenty of utu, and he is "hogging into it" with a relish.. Motor cars, motor bikes, races and waipiro—a short life and a merry one! This legislation has done a lot of harm to liini, but has strengthened the party vote of the pakcha, who benefited to Die detriment of the present and future dusky race. It is truly surprising how the picture theatres have taken on with the public. Our iiome life was fast enough, but the picture craze has just, about settled all that was left. Brother hardly knows sister now, and the family rarely meet together. The Shorthorn craze looks as if it is on the turn. The Jersey and its cross, history tells us, is the butter-fat mainspring. On the lighter land, or on any land, more of the Jersey element can be kept and they milk for a longer period and will, generally speaking, produce more butter-fat, and the keen dairymen are beginning to realise it. Of course there are Jerseys and Jerseys, and it beats me why any beast is allowed in a herd book without it has a certain amount of butter-fat lineage. This reminds me that Shorthorn cattle are being enrolled in herd books in the same old way. Color, conformation, and a pleasing appearance satisfactory to the inspecting authority entitles a beast of this breed to become a pedigree cow, and the main thing for dairying cast I aside—its milking record for butter-fat I'vducing.