WHATAWHATA.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1966, 12 February 1885, Page 2

WHATAWHATA.

Any vvck agi iculturc !— K\ eiy thinking peison will doubtless admit that as money is the r<«»t of all evil (so it is said), so is agriculture, the root and stem of all worldly good, even of life itself. l'Vom Mother K.uth springs all we ha\e and all we want, and any step which serves to advance agiicnltural progress must of a necessity be for the benefit of all cla<«MV>. This fact is lamentably mci looked by many who are not intimately connected w IHI f.u ming, niore's the pity. Still iii.uiY in this distiict will be glad to lenn tli.it we lia\e at last ,i leapei and Itmdt'i in the neighbourhood, which will be hired out to fanners who have grain crops to out. The harvester is as far in advance of the old-fai-hioncd reaper, as the oldieapei was of the sicklo and the hiokenb,u k. followed so often bv the loss of a oiop foi w.mt of hands and time to saw it. i have no doubt that ne\t year there will be a much gi eater are.i of cereal ciops m this distiict tli in fomieily, jus we have a lai o 'e •icri'ige of good wheat land, an m-vei.il of our settleis have pioved to their satisfaction. With reg.ud to sugar-beet culture, I haw for the 1 ist foni yea is seen as good crop* of mangolds giown m the W.upa Valley (notably on thef.iun of Mi D.iy), as I i»wr siw m any pait of the world, and if the 1 md is smt.ible for one, it is just as suit.tble foi the othei. We shall soon ha\e.tgood load to Hamilton ; also thn u\ei highway mils thiough some of the best land-* in the ib>tnct, hundieds of acres of which are lying ilmost idle and \vorthle-.s to the owners, which ought to b» em iclnng the community :it large. When shall we wake up to the fact th it the earth is kind, and so ceit.iin as we till it, so certain will it yield its incieatie ''. The weathei is all that farnvts (with cio])>) could wish for, and crops ,ue, on tho whole, abo\e the a\ei age this >eai.— (Coi lespondent.)