HARVEST OUTLOOK IN MARLBOROUGH

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 95, 16 January 1919, Page 8

HARVEST OUTLOOK IN MARLBOROUGH

Harvesting operations in ' Marlborough are veil forward. The first chaff of the season realised £5 per ton. The "Express" says that this may he considered a good price for this time of tlio year, and, us the yields are heavy, the oat crop is proving exceptionally profitable to tlio growers. The barley and wheat crops are late, hut promise well. No business has been done in theso Jijies. 'Jtyese cereals cover limited areas this season, but the yields aro expected to prove remunerative. The pea crops aro now being harvested, and a few liavo been thrashed. A record area—probably 10,000 acres—has been sown, mostly on contract, and -a good yield is likely despite the severe frost experienced on Christmas Day. At that stage an exceptionally heavy return was in siq;ht, but the unwelcome visitation has, it is calculated, reduced the average to the. extent of from ten to fifteen bushels per acre. The genoral contract price is about 12s. per bushel. The market for field peas has not yet opened. There is a substantial yield of hay.' The demand at this time of the year is small, and thn nominal value is £3 in the stack—the pre vailing rato last year. Potatoes were badly hit by the frost though they have been revived somewhat by recent rains. The yield has anparently been reduced very substantially. Not much grass seed will he gathered , in the district this year. Clover and lucerno.sced crops arc looking well.