AOTEA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 534, 17 February 1876, Page 3

AOTEA.

Feb. 16tb. The wheat harvest hm been a poor ono this *easou. There u arery little a( the Mtkak*. vrhilo at Eawliia lm-ije quuntnies huve been burnt ! Btttutiing, nit bmtig worth the "labour of 'reaping it. In tb.3 spring wheat, imut hl3 bei'n .pievalent. An experiment mmle with ix couple of ncres of Norwegun oats has fntla 1 froiu the extromo wetneis of the «e»Bon; but puaipkius, turnips, and hops look wnll

TUB CATERPILLAR RAID ha*, howeTer, .airly commenced .on the pat^oa crop, ln-aotne i.isi.anc<i the Iflares are already well riddla I, and toon ihoro will be ouly the bare stalks It-ft. Ho fur us I ca.i seethe pha.i-snijU, «lnoli6oma hold to be Iho nituial enemies of them in«ei t peats, leave thoin entirely unmolocted, but keep dicing uw.iy at the root».

Thß "MAOttl RtMEDY FOR KPR»INS hu bei'n tried with euooe-s in the cue of a lad who got Lib leg hurt by b»m X ei.t.iu«li>d in u cilt-rope. It fonci^ti of » poultwo umie from the br!i of the matro tre*. In tho emu reftncd to, alter aeTenil iJays' sulfunng, the nbove remrdj wat Bu^ditod by » nei^hb ,ur, mid the r-uult wut both speedy an! satisfactory, tho patient being able to move about the »itue day.

justimporiel hts, by the enterprise of our spirited fellow settlor— il •T B Hill — been introduced into thu distnet. I had the pleasure of neiug him before a. six months' gr >wtli of wool w'.u taltem offf him, a pleiwre wLich was not dimiuulied wb"n I aaw luoi ufv«p he was shorn — tot he u really a boautj. lie ]S remarkably tune, and evidently fa<-l« himso.f quite at horn?. I huTfl no doubt tbo clov.'r, of wluch lie hat abundaitoo, an I the genial chma'n of hn new homt', will suit him at leait as well at his native pastures, and that in due tim« his progenj will pro»e thcmsolres quite up to hi* mar*, ooth oi rqgnrds bulk and qunlitj.

THE >'EW KOAD TO WAITA, particulars of which hare airily appeared in jo ir columns, it) more ltkod, tho baiter it h known. Sevofal settler* prouoso goinjj thrr.ugh itneit W^ ini'3'lny, and tLeir report will be receded with rnuca interest. Ai the present roud has into a conditiou thtl is dangerou* to the life and limb of »uy unfortunate wli<j iian to trarel on it, the lepair of the present,, or the construction of the new road has become au imperative necesnty ; an d, according to all accouuta, tbfl new road will be greatly 'cheaper, and uitiuitelj better.

THE HOMSSTKAD ACT is working well, several of tue pirti»s who hare Ukun up la-id, \mier its provisions, being bard at rtork. I'hey h ive put up uoinfortablw shanties, find liartifliArod porliunt rrady for the plougb. They tike i»n activo interest ia oup little affair*, and a'tog-tlior will be a grrfat a-quisition to the distuot. 1 send you a suinyle of ergot in cocksfool cuisud by the exieseive ram. It i» unusujil, I be.irtfe, ti) liud it ia thit gr»«i.— Own OoiJKBSPONBEHX.