CANTERBURY HARVEST
With better and moro settled weathor conditions, Canterbury's harvest is in full swing. Reports from all directions are most satisfactory. Soon after the crops began to head hopes of a good average yield in both wheat and oats were expressed. Now that thrashing is well under way indications are Chat Canterbury's harvest is going to be well above the avcrago. One grower who farms sorno of the lighter land about Springfield states that lie has the best crop of wheat in a fairly long experience of his present property, and on heavier lands there are records of 51 bushels at Weedons and 61 at Kajapoi (savs the "Sun"). A Dunsandel farmer is reported to have thrashed out 90 bushels of oats per acre. Tho difficulty of obtaining fuel for the thrashing mills does not seem so great as wis at one time .anticipated, nor is labour the problem which some expectcd,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 10
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153CANTERBURY HARVEST Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 10
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