CROPS AND STOCK.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 577, 4 August 1909, Page 10

CROPS AND STOCK.

PROSPECTS IN THE SOUTH ISLAND./ According to the Hon. D.. Buddo, Acting-' Minister for Lands, .there in a keen anxiety in the South Island for lands for settlement to be thrown open for selection. .He further states that tlie-ifcateiuent w'liioh be made six weeks', ago ; that a larger area..\vaG.;being sown in wheat this year'.was Jicing.'borne out. Almost everywhere on the .'heavy lands, a;grcat deal, of-cultivation.,'had-\ta'ken. place. ;North <if' Tirnani " tlio' season'-had. been' especially favourable for. the .p]aniing/,of wlieat,. ; and ,tlie ivork was .well forward. ißeJow that town: owing to frcquorit showers, no drillingr-had taken place for.sonic six : weeks,;but tlio land was;'ready; -He liad every reason to believe that the' area in-wheat this season; in. the South Island-'would conctitjite. ■ a' record. With regard' to 'tto'cli,-lie says that tlio-sea- ! son Micro continues to' bo, exceptionally.-.fav-'ourable.. A; good;': deal of suiisliino was* be-' ing ■ experienced, and stock were looking remarkably well. ; He' anticipated', a good-,wool clip, ana that stock'w.ould -go on to ; tlio 'spring pasture in good condition. If it were not for the extraordinarily low ' prices', of ■ frozen meat at Homo the prospects for the farming,-community would-De . "exceptionally bright. .' ' ,--V-