THE COCKSFOOT HARVEST.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 16 January 1913, Page 10

THE COCKSFOOT HARVEST.

jpnotes from akaroa. , |j>- ; • ■ -• |V>- Reports -'from Akaroa .state that ~reap I'-ins • iraS / commenced' .in earnest on the p' ; ' :' lower cocksfoot paddocks on the, Peninsula |V. ; '. last . week. A',start'.was mado in "tittle ' « . Itiver; Robinson's' Bay, Pigeon Bay, .1 ho p,:[ i Kaik, and: elsßwhere,' while work on .the crop along the roadsido was also.commenc- >•• id. Tho-season-litis been even and tho '/ fcrops have,gro.w'rt uniformly,;so'that there. j¥>.: Jhavo >not".'been - two 'or- threo growths as lp! : .■ .Jias been..tho 'casp inilato sensons. -A 5 number 'of men coming'.down from :tho -North' Island were. delayed through. tho r : ' ferry :servico suspension.' ' .Thero. were plenttf of men at Little River, and .on m.Tuesday no' fewer than eighty. went, for [ dinner to ono of tho Little River board-, s 1 mghouses. In; tho neighbourhood of Aka- £'•> m cutting was fairly'general on Thurs- ? <lay-/niorniSg,*',Soihe^seed,' being ;do>vn 'on' • ' v.Tuesday/' i> Growers i.anticipate ■ tho rain M-5 ."n'ill' causo .the, seed. to, ripen, very fast,' and , nro nervous of some of tho crop shaking.' J. ; Tho rain will bp of great benefit to the f. vv' 'latter /crops .on;* the tops of ; . tho.'hills, ;as; ( the heat' had dried 'them up 6omewhat on !•-.' Jthe rocky points. :.