AGRICULTURAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1068, 8 February 1883, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL.

(By our Special Reporter.) WAITOHI. Continued. It would seem that while the Waitohi people attend most carefully to the cultivation of thoir farms they also entertain serious thoughts regarding their eternal weal, as they have built a very nice little c'mroh iu the immediate vicinity of the last named farm. This church, we believe, belongs to the Wesleyans, but is often made use of by other denominations, It is a nice tidy little church and a credit to the district.

Mr David Rae’s farm is the next I vVited, It contains 262 acres, 80 acres of which are ri-ei-bed, and not yet improved, but judging from the appearance of laud which has been brought under cultivation in the neighborhood, it is not the least valuable part of Mr Rae’s holding. There were 80 acres of the farm under wheat and oats this year, and a fine crop it was. There are good improvements about the house, which is sheltered by a clump of blue gums and other trees, and in the front of it there is growing up a good orchard. In the vicinity is Mr Henry Hullen’a Senior) farm of 300 acres of good improved land. He hau jO acres of it in wheat this year. Mr D. Pearse’s farm adjoining this contains 367 acres, which has been divided into 15 paddocks by good gorae fences. He had 70 acres of crop this year. The farm owned by the Coll Bros., bnt now the property of Mr Patrick Coll (his brothers having sold out to him and gone Home) comes next in rotation, It is situated farther up on the terrace, and contains 420 acres of capital land, 125 acres of which are under wheat and oats It has all the appearance of having been carefully farmed, and the crop son it were splendid when I visited there. Besides this Mr Coll has a farm of 620 acres about a couple of miles farther up on the downs. The land up here is excellent, superior in fact to the land down on the level ground. It was here that the Coll Bros. let pigs loose into peas and beans, which proved so profitable a transaction, but as I have already referred to that, it is not necessary for me to dwell any longer on the subject.

On ray homeward journey I called at Mr Michael McCabe’s farm, which is on the main road leading from the Waitohi township to the Mackenzie Country. It contains 155 acres of very good land, all improved, and carefully laid out into paddocks. It has one great advantage over other farms in the district: it has a n wer failing creek of water running through it. There were 30 acres of it under crop this year, and judging from its appearance it ought to yield a good return.

Mr W. Mc£. Gentleraun'a farm of 120 acres is adjoining this, on the same roadside. Thisjis all iu grass, but Mr Gentleman has another farm containing 305 acres farther up the valley all in crop. On this he has 100 acres of oats and 305 acres of wheat this vear. The homestead is a nice compact place ; the house being sheltered bj' a clump of trees, and there is a good garden in which various fruits are growing.

Mr D Halley lias a very nice residence a little nearer to Waitohi, The house i a very good one, and great taste has been displayed in the erder in which its surroundings are kept. The farm consists of 120 acres, divided by good fences into six paddocks, and 50 acres of it are under crop this year, This is about the snuggest and nicest place on the roadside. On the opposite side of the road, at the bottom of the Downs, stands a good twostorey building in which Mr C din Camp* bell lives. Mr Campbell hjj not lived here long, but during his time he has made some improvements, and in another year, when the trees and shrubs grow up, it will be a handsome place, as it is very advantageously situated. The homestead farm contains 150 acres, 50 of which ar» under crop. Mr Campbell has another

farm of 200 acres up in the Totara Valley, on which he has grown 170 acres of crops. He grow a good deal of firstclass hay seed this year also, but the wind which came at the time it was being cut down shook a large quantity of it out, and he thereby sustained considerable lor*. The excellence of the harvest weather for eating the more important crops, however, makes up for any damage which was then sustained. (To be continued.)