LOCAL TELEGRAPH STATIONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 16 September 1882, Page 2

LOCAL TELEGRAPH STATIONS.

Thb followiuj; is the return for the Wairarapa offices for the year ending 81it March, 1882 Value Met- Cut of sages all codes, maintenance. Mssterton 546 S 1 299 14 6 Carterton . 23715 I 11711 1 Fcatheraton 205 13 9 114 9 7 Groytown 181 6 9 176,17 9 Castlepoint 145 7 2 94 16 7 ; Waihenga 100 5 4 69 16 1 Thisisthe first year in wbioh all the stations have shown & margin of profit, J FABM ITEMS. !• *' ■ i i.im;. :: |,, A potato raiser advances the Mowing ■theory:—" A potato that has greened in the fsun » always a good wed potato. We keep our seed potatoes too close and dark before planting. This tends to develop the eyes to rapidly. And this premature growth «• hausts the vitality of potato." ■ Bow many farmers let tho soapsuds from the family washing runoff into unsightly gutters, when it might be applisi to plants to destroy taaeots. Into this water may be put ahttle carbolic acid or tobacco, : The cutculio will be killod by it j alio the current worm,

.A famous .korin breeder of Franei .has wared, las. stock for twenty year* on » dist of parsnips, instead of carrots and oats mth the result of " great vivacity of spirit and sleeujess »f waV'-conclnsive. evidence of healtluul oondibon. The ,'yield. Js about twenty tons to the aore, .The reason why 60 hens kept together I!!ri. y .iS o " p p r , klO proportion'thin a ®{ % 11 that the smaller the flook thebetterit can be kept as regards eo». .fort, health, and convenience. It wag reoentg stated as experience of the that the'smaller the flook the better it pays in proportion, and ttus U th« common ezperieneo of all who keep poultry. Crowding too many together ut, very detrimental to fowls. Aa aore of ground is little eaoogh tor a hundred fowls ana if there are two separate houses on the a«r» at opposite corneri with M fowls in each aore eggs will be produced than if the whole ;100 in one -hoiise. Fowls are very nuolean birds if left to themselves j and as, cleanliness 'is indispeasiblf to their health' and thrift, the less number there Uin a home the better it is for them', )