CANTERBURY CROPS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 119, 6 February 1918, Page 8

CANTERBURY CROPS

. by Telegraph—Press Association. Ghristchurch, February 5. There ifi very little grain offering. It is reported thai most of the wheat and cats are going into stacks owing to the scarcity of hands for the thrashing mills. . The weather has been too uncertain to risk keeping the grain in stoolc to wait for a chanco to have it thrashed.'A shortage of cornsacks until the Calcutta boat arrives is also delay " thrashing. Drying easterly winds of the past few days have been beneficial to tho grain in stoolc. A few lines of wheat and oats are changing hands, but the quantity is limited. Offerings of ryegrass®, and 'other seeds ore also slack, due partly to the season being later and to fa.rmers being busy with the grain harvest. \There is a littlo business doing in oat chaff, which lacks the brightness or colour of the "pp.st few seasons. It is worth £3 15s. to £4 at country stations for the better quality. For potatoes £4 is being offered for delivery during the week. The market is weaker in the North Island owing to crop!;* being dug earfr in consequence of blight.