TUHIKARAMEA.

Waikato Argus, Volume V, Issue 312, 9 July 1898, Page 4

TUHIKARAMEA.

Weather and Crops.—During the past week or two we have been favoured with a, considerable amount of rain, including some heavy downpours, which flooded the creeks and tested the efficiency of our drainage works. Very little damage was done by the late easterly gale, though its ill effects upon stock was very noticeable, particularly in exposed situations, and since then, with the continual showers keeping the land wet and cold, neither cattle nor sheep on turnips have fattened so well »s they were doing previously. Within the past tew days Mr Ed. Allen, of Pukekura, has paid the district a visit, which resulted in the purchase of Messrs F. J. Vickers' and Norrish's swede crops. In this connection Mr Allen, who may be regarded as a competent judge in such matters, expressed surprise and pleasure at the fine growth of turnips to be seen throughout the district, particularly in respect to the absence of weeds among the growing crops, and considered that the Tuhikaramea land was well adapted _ for turnip and grain-growing, an opiniou that is borne out by actual practice. Sale of Property.—Mr H. Davys has disposed of his farm (through Mr H. Roche, Ohaupo land agency), to ( Mr Wheeler, the residence being retained by Mr Davys, who will remove it to Taupiri. By this purchase Mr Wheeler has obtained a good long frontage to the county road, and will be able to work the whole property to greater advantage. Mr and Mrs Davys aud family will be leaving in the course of a few weeks, and will carry with them the best wishes of their neighbours and friends, which feeling will probably take a more direct form ere they go. Chaff-cutting. —Mr Hutchison's steam chaffcutter is again working in the district cutting up Mr Reid's straw stacks, Messrs Taylor's machine being daily expected back from Ohaupo to do the same work for Messrs McMicken. The ready sale met with for chaffed straw at £2 53 to £2 10s per ton at station is giving a great increase of work to the machines, which, up to the present season, have never chaffed anything but the oat sheaves. Cattle Missing.—During the last week or two a number of cattle, chiefly calves, have disappeared from their usual haunts on the run, their owners looking for them high and low, but in vain. In these cases an advertisement should be tried, as, if that fails, the missing ones are indeed lost.