OHAUPO

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 36, 1 October 1896, Page 3

OHAUPO

An Old Fi:ikxi>.—l had the pleasure of meeting an old friend on Tuesday at the sale, personalty a friend, hut politically an enemy. 1 mean Mr Cox, who was inemher ' for W'aipu ninny years ago. Yes ! we had many a light, sometimes 1 came off second beat nuil sometimes it. was t'other way en. I remember once giving liint a slating at Te Awaimitu, after the session was over, hut like a well bred gentleman, instead of resenting it, he eimo ever and shook hands with me, although politically rppo.-cd we were personal friends. J was agin' the Government then and I suppose ho is agin' the Government now. 1 was glad to see the old gentleman looking so well, for of l" ursc twenty years is a l>i<: hole in a n an'c life time. I trust he may live twenty years longer. He sees a great deal of change in this part of the Waikato s'nee he was last here and speaks highly of our progress Mr Cox has travelled about the world a good deal in his day and gives New Zealand the palm as having the finest climate and being the best country in the world for a poor man, and in this I agree with him. I hope his stay in the district will Lie an enjoyable one. Omit as I'k; Pi:ei>.—Did any of your readers ever bear of pigs being fed on chair. Well, I never did till the other day. I'm not chaffing. Mr Kusahs told n.c he fed his on oaten chaff, so J made it my 1 usiness to see for myself. The pigs were in a small fenced-in paddock, and looking well. Outside the fence was a large cask wiih the feed. The cask is half Idled with chaff, into which the separated milk and slops are thrown and when it ferments for three or four days it is then tit to le given to the pigs, which eat it gree'ily and thrive on it. This bit of information might Le useful to many farmers who may not he aware th.t pigs will eat chuff.— Own Cortespendent.