CROPS IN THE SOUTH ISLAND.
The Gatlins correspondent of the Clutha Leader says the weather during the past month has been very bad, raining almost every day, and has as yet no appearance of improving. The crops are pretty far back in consequence, especially the turnip crop. On the flat a good turnip crop is not to be met with this year.
The Dunedin Herald has been informed by a correspondent that the crops between Balclutha and Clinton do not look very promising, and from all quarters complaints are heard of the unfavorable prospects of the harvest, which promises to be the poorest that has been known for years. Considering the very severe weather with which the crops in the surrounding districts have had to contend, observes the Mataura Ensign , it is surprising as well as gratifying to note the healthy appearance they everywhere present. In the Wyndham district, crops are rather late, but this is not to be deplored, for we are experiencing anything but good harvesting weather. The wheat and oat crops in the Tntnrau district could hardly look better, and farmers toll us they confidently expect an average yield of from 60 to 65 bushels of wheat per acre. If the weather is at all propitious, the reapers and binders wiil be at work all around us next week.
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Patea Mail, 22 February 1882, Page 3
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222CROPS IN THE SOUTH ISLAND. Patea Mail, 22 February 1882, Page 3
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