HARVEST PROSPECTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11478, 10 January 1903, Page 5

HARVEST PROSPECTS.

At the present moment, writes a correspondent, after a visit to the Canterbury crop-growing localities, there is a demand for the best reapers aftd binders for dealing with heavy yields. There is also going to be a heaw* demand for twine, of which some tons will be wanted. From a local maker, one firm takes one hundred tons, which speaks for itself. Before the season is far gone if—l use the word "If" because tbe weather samples are various—present prospects hold, there wi_ be something like a famine in reaper twine. I happen to known that a large farmer in As'hburton County has placed his order with a strict guarantee for delivery for fifteen tons. Another farmer says lie wants two tons, and all the little farmers who only have 300 to 500 acres of crop, want double the quautity o:t some previous seasons. Two instances may serve to show how this is proved. On a farm in Noith Canterbury, a fanner who sowed 100 acres of dun oats, and for five months fed them down with ten sheep to the acre, enclosed the crop far mowing, but now finds he has a probable crop of 35 bushels of grain to the acre. In another case a fanner considered his oat crop was under sown in Ms absence by at least a sack of oats per acre, and be burrowed, intending to put in rape, but as the oat crop gTew up rather thickly before he was ready to put in the rape," it was allowed to go on growing, and. if the weather is ali right t:ll harvest", he has seventy bushels of a yield on present appearances.