THE GREAT GUM TREES AND CLEARING LAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 22 August 1885, Page 4

THE GREAT GUM TREES AND CLEARING LAND.

A CORRI SPONDhNT, W 1 ltilig to the South Australian Chronicle, gives us .a very good idea of the difficulties which the pioneer has to encounter amid the primeval forests of (iippsland. He says:— "All round Nairacan Park is a fringe of gi.mt ghosts— that is, of trees which have been rung, and n hose decay and fall is only a question of tune. These dead trees look veiy wend and unpictuiesque intheir piesent condition, but they attract attention and even admiration by their eiiounous si/.e. They average al'out 200 ft in hi iglit, and aie &f proportionate fai/e. I li.ive measured thiec or four of thebc fallen ivonsteis, .md found one 170 feet long, another '27)0 iVt, aud oue 310 fuct. When my leadcm call to mind that the Post Olhce tower is not so high as the shot test of these great gums, they may have boine idea of the dilhcultica attendant upon a settler's attempt to make a home for himself in tliirf country. These enormous skeletons stand so close together that there are about fifty of them to the acre, and in some places they are thicker. I got inside one yesterday th it had been hollowed out by the combined influences of decay and fiir, and found that at *ix feet fiom the ground the cavity was about twenty feet in circumference Another, which has fallen, forms a cavern in which cattle aiewont to ti!ve refuge Jiom the stoi ins. To clear thoroughly countiy of this soit costs nearly £100 per acre, but the usual and raoic economical plan is to let natuie and time do most of the woik. The process seems to be fiist to slash away at the tangled iiudugiowth. When that is dry enough it is Hied to^et it out of the way. The great trees arc then rung and left to decay. Uonliies aie made of them as they fall. There is little or no grass here for the simple reason that the grass has no chance in these dense forests, and so, as soon as the tiees aie dead, gias* and clover aie sown, and then cattle aie turned out to feed. The land is of splendid quality when once it is to be got at. Only a \ery lich soil could pi od uce such a mass of vegetation as covers theso iai.ges, but to lescuea patch of ground for a homestead out of this boundless contiguity of shade requiies time and patience and capital, and involves an amount of hardship to which our lightly timbered colony presents no parallel."

Fcbnimiino Chickkn.h. — A colored lady nppioached a white woman the other day, aud applied for a situation as cook. " You have had experience as a cook, I suppose?" "At de sawmill; I Mas cookin' for de han's." "What were your duties mainly ?" "Roast taters an' furnish chickens." "Chickens are cheap in the (ountiy, aren't they?" " Dese Wiii " " Where did you net them ?" " Data what de owner ol) de mill wanted to know, but de sretct is what I liases my ficiency on. Kf you wants me, I'll toast tatera ami iiirnNli de chickens foi a dollah a wdk." "You sttal the thickens, don't you'' 1 "Well, lady, sonic folks might call it <lat, but did mooh gut u&rd tei it and cull it 'funii.shin ' fowls. Donii' want me, yon »ay ? CJood by, lady : 111 go obor here an' stike da pitfiuhdr'H family."

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