JAPAN CLOVER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3145, 5 March 1889, Page 3

JAPAN CLOVER.

TO THE EDITOR. ' f Sib— Having been frequently asked wjow I like the Japan clover with your permission I will give the public my experience of it. The seed that I gtWrom • Mr I'asolberg, was good, aiilßp germination was all that could be desired. What I sowed in the autumn was i-ateu by a small insect in the seed leaf, but what I sowed in the spring with yellow oat grass has grown well, and the sheep are now eating it and seem very fond of it. There is a little buffalo grass mixed with it wliioli is spreading first rate. It will be a valuable acquisition to the grower if it will stand the climate. Mr Uaselbjrg has introduced three more grasses-the Bookhara Clover, Hungarian Grass, and the lispeieet, whioh I am giving a trial. I am, &c., H. 11. Jackson. Stonestead. TOO FOND OF FRUIT. (To tho Editor.) Sib.—Vour paragraph in u'strrdayV Daily about apricots, called to ir.y mind (i recent JJnsterton incident, Four young gentlemen, whom, for the sake of convenience, wo will call A., ~ 8., C. f and D., form the (subject. A. iiifoi'med their two friends, D. that they intended paying a visit to art orchard some distance away, having been invited so to do by the niJHt liked fruit, prevailed upon iliti more fortunate panto withold a portion of tlm spoil to soothe tlit) InceratHil feelings of their less fortunate companions. This they promised to do, and at the time doubt-1-sR intended tofnltil their promiso limy went, and of course enjoyed themselves. They (lid not, however, forget their absent I'riondfl,and,, A'hcii tliey started for home, currift) with them a good supply of the fine ripe "fruit. When they reached their destination, it was night, and the apricots, upon which the faithless pair had made occasional forays, had, to their consternation! dwindled down ' to tbreo in number. Their friends being bachelors, A and B wont ta their apartments, and finding no one about,'opened' tho window and put tjie remainder of the fruit, supplemented by a eupply of apricot stones, the joint bed- of C and D, then Hit their way - rejoicing, C. wa3 tJio-firat to retire to 'his domocile, anil b'i 6fielng only threo apricots donclnWthkt'D |iid been before jiim, and " .; bad luuving the alohea us h of adding iha'uls. to injnry, .Q .'■■■#te the appicots,' howeve'r, ami fttired witi th« iat«ntion inter-

i. viewing D'on the morrow, The laiter 0 on arrival, and .finding"nothing 11,11 t stones, anathematised his sleeping i, ftiend soundly under his breath, and but length wound himself up to such» pitch that in his indignation lie g seized a lissiu of water mid complete!) deluged O's prostrate form, then rushed into the darkness to smother ; his heated feelings. An hour later, 0 Ilia brain a little cooler, D: returned 1 ) and stealthily opened'his bedroom ,t door. No sooner hud lie reached the g .threshold than crush! bump I came |, two huge pails of water on his oll'end--1 inghead. C had not ken wistinj; n his time. That was more tlnui •. human nature could endure. The [ erstwhile friends, groping for one l| another in the dark, fought like Kilif kenny cats, until almost, every article [1 ol liiriiituro in the room was reduced |. to ruin. .Finally having exhausted (> themselves in their encounter, they J csanyed to lit»lit ut candle and gaze iijiun tlm scene of chaotic confusion » which they hud wrought, and n immilisn on the evils of greed and the perversity of human uatiire, They t were disgusted the next day to learn t the true tacts of the case froiii A and a I}.^—■ ' 3 Yours Ac., 5 Pears; 1 =_ ...