GENERAL FARM NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 120, 7 February 1918, Page 8

GENERAL FARM NOTES

Farmers in this district (states the Balclutha 'Tree Press") are jpaying 2s. ail hour for skilled tiirnip-thiriners. A large number of schoolboys are also at work at ss. and 6s. a day, and in many parts women are also helping. < A good amount, of thrashing was done of oats during the past week, pud the work is now so well forward that the mills will be free to operate on the wheat so soon as it is ready. A limited number of farmers are putting their crops into stack, and it is stated that a number of wheat crops, whicli have already been cut, would be the better of being treated in the same way in order to obtain the hardening effect that is obtained in the stack. Very few report's as to actual yields of oats have reached us, but sufficient lias been mad 9 known to establish the conclusion that there .is a wide disparity of results. So far the best return we have heard of is an average of 73 bushels, obtained up the Kurow line. A little thrashing of wheat has been done, and the work would have been entered upon generally this week had it not been for the heavy rain.— "Oamarti Mail."

"The greatest grass season fyr 20 years," is the general. opinion 'of that tellable person known as "tho oldest inhabitant," says a "Wairca paper. Everywhere thero is tho same testimony —too much grass, and the farmers are now longing for a spell of dry weather to enable burning to be carried out.