WHEAT GROWING IN THE WAIKATO.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1423, 16 August 1881, Page 3

WHEAT GROWING IN THE WAIKATO.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Tour remarks in last Tuesday's issue are not very encouraging to those in the Waikato w,ho,are trying to develop the grain-growing capabilities of this, district" • You say to them, 1 in ' fact, " Leave off growing wheat for the present, it does not pay, and turn your attention to the cultivation of sugar beet instead, at which you may, make a fortune." 1 That' fortunes arp not bejng made, .by grpwing wh.e.at-1 admit, but partial failure of crops and returns I attribute to o£her causes than those .assigned by you. The principal are these: — Ist.' 1 An insufficient amount of pieparatory tillage. 2nd.' Sowing the wrong kind of seed. It is 'a very well known fact that the seed most suitable to tbe soil and ' climate may easily bo made, to produce as much as 10 or 15 bushels an acre more than an ordinary kind, 1 nor do 1 think that experience as yet proved what is the best, sample to • grow in W.iikato. That almost universally used at present, vw., tbe '^ White Tuscan," I do not think is tho thing for here. I await with some interest the results of experiments now being made by Mr James Runciman on samples secured by tho Cambridge Fanners' Club from different parts of America. Another reason is the want of a better class of machinery both for leaping and also for thrashing". Leaving out of the question the present high price of labour, J consider that were the above conditions more favourable, better results might be looked for than any yet attained. ; Through, Pukorimu a very much larger area has been sown down in wheat ■ this season than in any previous year, and it is to be pincercly hoped that for those who aie tiyiug to lessen the enormous impoitation lof bieadstuffs to, the North Island flora the South large yields may bo the result of their efforts. I feel more than ever convinced that all that is wanted to make farming in Waikato pay better than it has done in the past are these necessary elements of success — more energy, inofre attention to our business as farmers, and moie cjpital. Grant our soijs these, .concessions, and there need be no feur'for the result. — I am, &c, 5 JHknby,Bdjwii3. JPukenmu/'Ausrusfc 12th 1S&1.- - ] THE LATE- .mMTING' AT CAMBRIDGE WEST.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — Will you kindly give mo space - to correct a few gross niisstateineuta in the report of the meeting of ratepayers in Cambridge West School. Ist lam reported to have called Mr Madigan a lur point blank. The words were 'never used by me. I simply* said he was not on the roll, and therefore he had no voice in the meeting. 2nd Your reporter h<vs. distorted thb- tviith • when 'lie says that "the chairman had with some difficulty induced ire, to resume my scat. " It was Mr Bright who was venting his spleen on me, and talking away on subjects foreign to the purposes of the meet-t ing. ''I dnly rose' in .reply to Mr Bright, when he said I had never applied for the rates. I said I had .applied a dozen times, but failed to get' them. If promises would^pay 1, got them , often \ i but promises with' sbme* ate like pie-crusts, made to be broken. It. is a good thing for the district ' there 1 ' are not m'ariy of _' the qenus'homooi tx certain' person, or I would need to, "dog theni thVough' street- after street, and'Weti at" a" teameeting" if I got 'the cliance. 'In regard to Mr S. 1 Bright's'p'ersdriarremark; I defy ' him to prove it. There is ds much truth in it as "the man who swallowed the three black crows. —Lam, &c. '* ' Hugh" Fitz^eraid. i Cambridge, 4-ngHSt ,12. ' ' ' [If our correspondent will read the report of the • ttieeling again he will fiiid that he id iiot reported to have called Mr Madigan ( a ,liar., Mr Bright is r.epprtecj to have accused' him bi 'doing so by inference. Mr Fit^geraW, soiar from proving that there we^'diiFm I tsstatfe J #nta l ln V 6 > ur report, bears the fullest, testimony tojts correctriess. ' EU.I ", ' ' ' ' "

THE PROPOSED HAMILTON- > PUBLIC HALL., TO THE EDITOR.. , (iM , , Sir,— Would yoii kindly supply 'information on the following" subject ? t ,WhO[ authorWd &ife Worship' to'cafl&v tenders for building a Volunteer Hall'?' and by what authority the yolunteer,and/Pubh<j Hall aifcf'ttfßfteS ac]iepte'd ; 'iemiera?"TFl understand the mat'tfer '' correctly, they are simply trustees so far as tlie site is_con- , cerned, a«dyrnothfnfM«Vii U the building than the man in the moonH' If otlldi^ise/'H^h-f^Mmr^ -BuUdrng' Commas W;k lf 'M^»!teM/ say a crowded meeting. If the.eqmmiW'W^p^aM 5 W& ti|wav' failed to satisfactorily perform £he dulaes J entrusted^) HhW,' 6al! Mbwl¥ Meeting, so that they can hi«?S faa-o^pOrtini^W' explain their actipn or want of action in this matter. It their explanation d,oes J

not meet witih^jthe approval p| the burgesses,, S|a't-li}hjejtf! reaghUand! appoint, others, but the site trustees, shpuld^not p'li't ! themselveis ',in ( a ' false, position arrogating' <poVers' they 'do 'not possess. Amalgamating a Public Hall and Sundayschool wwHftfiftffl a lanistakfi^frofc the \ commencement; if not now, the time; would other denominations! would want to know what vested .interest pafl'|ri'a public Hall, forgetting m bourse of time that they had , invested a certain sum of money for the ' .pmifegVthVgWer; : 'wnich was realised <dn* thb' 'understanding that the surplus was to go towards building a Sunday-schbol. ■( 'Whatever action the Vestry of S. Peters may take to-night, they have^ a very g(ood oppbrtuhity 4 of getting honorably out of a scheme rather hastily and thoughtlessly entered into, and whiqh, if- carried gut, 'VV'O.Uld pfo^e j unsatisfactory. — lam^&c, * i * * ; , Burgess. Hamilton, August I's, 1881:

" I want to' see the villian who wrote this article."' "WhofV 8 the proprietor of the paper?" "He's out" "Where's the managing . editor- ?" r ' " " He's out I . " Where's the city editor ?" " He's out."- '! Where's the reporter r>" ' "He's out?." « " Where'm I PlP 1 ' ' (Ricketty-slam-bang-jam ! Two paries of 'glass' broken) " You're out. ""-'Man found on sidewalkj and carried to hospital. "Verdict ! Struck by lightning. Still the^ willdo it. Overplus 'op MoisfEy' in 'fiance. — The rage for i apeoulation on the 1 Bourse acquires new intensity in France. Since the war the , increase in .wealth has been enormous, arid' the ' value of things has doubled. French Rentes, issued after the war at 82 fra'nes.Vtandnow at 120f ; railway shares : the 'French Northern bhares, | quoted a .year, a^roat, l§4of per Bhare of SQOf, ppV 2MJOJ-, and all -others are equally, healthy. Bank of-Franpe shares, purqhaseable, a year, ago -at 3400f, sell ea^sily at ,5900f.. Credit Foncier .shares have risen 50 percent wiihin.the last .year. Even Spanish railways have become prosperous., Much Jegifimate trade has, no doubj; arisen under the , the impulse of an • almost upiyersal, rise, in securities, i but, unfortunately, tb.e mania of .gambling has spread paripa, itit. with, the. extension of legitimate trade. French banks' are mostly " Credits Molnliers,"., and they have contributed largely to the present speculation by lending money on their own paper. Should there ,bo a crash, the - collapse would not be very, general oxving to the, amount of floating and investing capital, which is out of all proportion to that of aay, other other country, < while the intermediaries who are. mainly responsible, are wealthy enough to withstand the heaviest ,shpck. ■ • ,