THE CANTERBURY HARVEST.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1051, 14 February 1911, Page 8

THE CANTERBURY HARVEST.

SATISFACTORY YIELDS. .' ■' ' ffiy Ttlesrapb.—Spcclal' Correspondent.! Christchurch,. February';i3... The harvest is, almost completed in the, Jlethven.district : and,stnckiug. is beingproceeded with opneei c,The-demand for men that.existed livst week, has .eased .off. a good. deali _as- tho-«ij)al!."farmors, finish' stacking and the men are forced ,to travel further south I.in .qucsir.of harvest work, their objective-toing (jamaru_ or . Dcucdin.' The ;Wte are T«-y vsatisfartory,- vapoiprops. are ex--ceptionally.gooa.i, IJ:. is admitted by sev : cral farmers, that- the!;'present season's, crops aro tho host that have been seen in: this locality for-seyetal seasons, past. The winter can be looked forward to,with confidence as far as feed,for, sheep and cattle -is; concerned, a striking contrast to tho position that, prevailed during the last two .or three winters ,when.root crops reroi almost.- without.-, total failure. '. South .Canterbury, farmers, are RHierolly speaking, well satisfied with tho harvest in .suite, of tho dry season. The wheat, -though short in straw, filled out 111 a wonderful, v,ay aftor the belated rain fell, so that now forty to fifty bush-, els per aero .ire being threshed.out where only itwenty-fivo and -thirty iwero;espccled. For the most part the grain has been got in in sploudid ordor, better than' formally years past. Tho late rains have given a.,great, impetus; to root, .irops. and pastures, and tho prospects for ■ autumn and winter aro, , g00d...