CANTERBURY GRAIN CROPS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 750, 24 February 1910, Page 10

CANTERBURY GRAIN CROPS.

HARVEST NEUtLY IN. i/.Daring ; tho'" fine -weather -;of last '>week harvesting operationswere carried oil throughout ; North; Canterbury.. without" a. break, .anil Saturday"night: there,'was very .little .grain unpacked. The', threshin,? .; machine' returns'; are stated ' by ' the ''Ohristolnireli Press'i'n many'caseato be in regard iyixcat;;,which failed to. fill out well..' Crops which from the length, of ear .promised to'yield 50 "to 60 bushete'per acre, are returning only half > these quantities: .-. J3arly.sown■ Hunter's ,'aiid Pearl- are' giving/.Tery.-good returns; , ; bnt j the quan-tity.^of.-.weathered'grain ..mil"make, the ' harvest.' on:. the -whole. an.; unsatisfactory one;- j /A- largo', quantity- of : 'wh&it; will be Iready.. for .-marketing this . week, and the ,questionprice is .'just'-.nowvvan interesting £one,'; a standard , for-- weathered .grain not haviiig. been set. -'Eeports from different parts of., the district;.show, .that potatoes "' are a good deal blighted, and prices- for good- sound samples are' expected. to rme high;.-' A-good'growth of .grass continues,- and.;ari< abundant supply of. autumn and' winter feed for stock sesms assured.. ' ', ; : . • t Harvest operations in'.the Teriiuka arid surrouridinij. districts continue 'at a'.brisk, pace; and for. a wide are& s 'mariy hundreds ofy.stacks.iare:visible,. principiilly ivheat. 'In .'a' great • inany ..cases 'growers. o£ .oats ;took adTari'tige'-: of ; the:.4ne. weather since the,beginning of themonth, aid -thresTied' from the" stook.', -Tie yield has 'not bepri :'«>'.satisfactory • as,>as;ex: there',, is certain, to be -'a'large falling off. In .one ;ca«e . aV.well-kitowa yield :somethiag about 30-or -10 basMs. : was 'estohrided when turned. no t. too' good Wm'plo at'that., Similjtf 'reports'- ire -frim I .'other places, - arid said the grain, in'.mariy. eases -is quite.soft. - -... - ■