AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
The Daily Times correspondent writes: —" Harvest has set in. The yield 0 f wheat is an average, but the vastly greater area sown will run up the total available for export to more than ' one hundred million bushels. Where is the market 1 The new wheat and barley in California is so far of inferior quality, and will not; fetch high prices. It is probable that a-, good deal of it may bo fed to stock, thei grain-buyers objecting to the unolean,, inferior, and ungraded parcels which comei to market. Owing to this negligence on the part of the grangers, to continuous cropping of wheat, and to want of care in the selection of seed, California shipments sell lower in the English market as a rule than either New Zealand, Australian, or Chilian wheats. This fact should not be lost on your farmers. The Flouring ■Millers' Convention at Chicago did not ; pay expenses. I should add that California exported ten million centals wheat, valued at L 6,000,000, in the year ended June 30th just passed."
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 28 September 1880, Page 2
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