INCH CLUTHA.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 22, 10 December 1874, Page 5

INCH CLUTHA.

The cereal crop at the lower end of the ' island is estimated at '460 acres, about equally divided between wheat and oats. The early crops were very backward a' few w^eks ago, but of late they have been corning on very fast, aud i'at present they are -looked upon as a good lair average; crop. i ßed straw with a moderate , f*x- ! tent of the 'tU9can has been sown. The fcrgaer being a staple produce of the place is set down at an average of forty bushels' p«r acre. The flatter, which is in a greatmeasure new to this portion of} the island,: it is eupposd will yield about fifty bushels., .As ..stated above, both .crops are loakingj

well. Only a email breadth of ba ley^t|WM been eown, but. we have ro informationJf^H| to its prospec-8. About tw nty acres KaJ^H been put in of potatoes tbe largest prorjQjj^M ton of which are a late ; crop. So fa£)|99 they have gone they are . looking veirSH well, showing but very lew blanks. Tq^M average yield is ten tons to the acre - I^H| goodly quantity of turnip crop has beej^H put in, which is also -reported to be doin^H well. -So far as 'known the grasshoppeSH nuisance has not made its appearance OmH the island. The grass lands .are reporrec|H at bearing a most magnificent crop. < Th|B| deed we have heard it stated' on moa^B reliable authority that, this season's grasfM surpasses anything seen on Inch Clutha for^B the past seventeen years. Only two of thejß settlers have goneforin wool-growiDg, vi? f^H Messrs. Smaill & Sons, Mayfleld and their^H adjoining neighbor, Mr Darling. 'Betweenpi the two they have get some, 600 sheepJH shorn and to be shorn this, year. ThejH increase on the Mayfleld flock was .eightyjH per cent, and on the other ninety-si^. ThelM former finished shearing last week* thejfl produce being between six and seven^H pounds of wool per sheqp.-^the sheep beingiH all half-breds. The current .rate paid ior H shearing, is 20s per 100. U'fM