LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1931, Page 5

LATE LOCALS.

It is very many years, comments the Christchurch “Times,” since the yields and eiialily in the Canterbury wheat crop have varied to such an extent as this year. Some of the crops threshed are as good as any ever grown in the province while others are so parched and shrivelled by the continued spell of north-west weather that they are even below fowl wheat grade. Except for two breaks, the weather has been excellent for harvesting this year and half the crop has been completed. There are still a few crops standing l,„t threshing is proceeding apace all over North Canterbury. -Milling grade wheat weighs Cl lb to the bushel, but samples weighing 03, Of, and 65 lb to the bushel have been common this year. Fowl wheat weighs 571 bto the bushel but a lot of samples Unis year have gone as far as 51 lb to the bushel. Crops which have passed through the hands of mm broker have varied m yield from 15 to 70 bushels to the acre, the wheat ranging in quality trom practicallv useless grain to samples that have weighed 65] Ih to the measured bushel. This is the best sample that the particular broker has seen in en experience of twenty years in the Canterbury grain trade.