SOUTH TAIERI.

Otago Witness, Issue 2815, 26 February 1908, Page 39

SOUTH TAIERI.

Fcbiuaiy 24 —Threshing mills are now to b3 seen m all directions, and several straw stacks are now on the plain as a lesult of the past fortnight's operations. Generally speaking, farmers are highly satisfied with their yjeltls, some paddocks going as high as 60 bushels of wheat to the- acre, while I have heard of one paddock of cats going 90 bushels to the acre. v Turnips. — The turnip crops in places are seriously affected! with blight. The leaves are withered away, and the roots ate not % quarter the site of what they should belt is hoped that if * good downpour of rain

conies H will oolp to revive them to a considerable extent.

Grass — The grass is now very dry and jvithercd-up owing to the continued" dry weather. As a consequence the dairying industry is fa l ling fast, and cows are not giving half of what they did two months a«o. The test, too, is very low ocmpar«d with other years, and taking .hia into consideration with the low price received last month for butter fat — viz., 9Jd to non-share-holders, and lOd to shareholders — dairying does not appear to bi the success it once was.