WAKANUI AND HINDS CROPS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 21 January 1880, Page 2

WAKANUI AND HINDS CROPS.

The cropa generally in these portions of the Ashburton County look well. Going along Beach road, we find Chalmers Bros.' crops of wheat will run fully thirty three bushels per acre; oata and barley looking well. Mr Jameson's crop of wheat is splendid, and should turn out fully forty bushels. Mr Miller's farm looks well, and his wheat crop is magnificent, and will yield quite fifty bushels. Mr J. Brown's crop is good, and should go fully thirty-ieren bushels of wheat to the acre. Going further along to Mr Thompson's a threshing machine was at work, the grain operated on being oats, a fair avenge crop of thirty-fire bushels. This is the first machine started near Ashburton this year. At Mr Wilson's, on the beach, the crops look hardly as well as might be expected from the quality of the land, übout twenty-seven bus!"els of wheat per acre being the anticipited yield. At Mr Corbett's, opposite, the crops are about the same ; in fact, in the whole of this neighborhood, the yield, though good, will not be unusually large, as the soil is heavy, and the water lodging in the early part of the season prevented the young sprouts from getting away us quickly as they would in dryer weather. No doubt, however, this excellent land will, in the average season, give a far greater yield than much of the lighter soils which are producing such immense returns this damp spring. On the Wakanui road there is some very poor land on which there is a good deal of oats which will barely give 20 bushels per acre. Nearer Ashburton the crops look exceedingly well, and the yield should certainly be from SO to 35 bushels per acre all round. At the north branch of ihe near the foot of the hills the crops are all looking well, but a little later. Some oats are being cut, and one large field of barley was fully ripe. Mr H. Poole has a large acreage of wheat which promises fully 35 bushels per acre, and on Mr Sutherland's farm there is a promise of even a larger yield. At Mr J. Murphy's, in the forks of the Blinds, wheat looks from 27 to 30 bushels. The first new oats have made their appearance in Ashburton, and it is reput.'d were sold at Is 5d for immediate delivery.