THE ENGLISH HARVEST.
The Derby Reporter says:—The threshing machine, after being largely employed during the frosty weather, has revealed the fact that the general estimate which was made of the yield in various parts of the country in the first instance has not come up to the sanguine expectations which were then formed. It now appears that the wet season lasted too long, that many ears of corn did not come to maturity, and that, in short agriculturalists were deceived in their anticipations. In spite of this fact even those people who are able to show good wheats can get little or no advance on the very low prices which rule in the market. Large numbers of the holders have sent in notices to give up their farms. Should the present state of things continue, good farms will, for some length of time to come, be eagerly taken up. As all farms are not advantageous to hold, large quantities of the worst land must necessarily fall upon the hands of the landlords. In that case a good many of the tenantless farms must go untilled.
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Patea Mail, 17 May 1881, Page 3
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185THE ENGLISH HARVEST. Patea Mail, 17 May 1881, Page 3
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