ENGLISH HARVEST.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 954, 22 June 1881, Page 3

ENGLISH HARVEST.

The Derlw and Chesterfield Reporter says:— “ By this time a pretty accurate idea of last year’s wheat crop in England has been ascertained. 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 been realised. This is a keen disappointment, for with the spell of fine weather in the early autumn it was believed that the grain was fully matured, and would make a good return. It now appears that the wet season lasted too long, that many ears of corn did not come to maturity, and that, in short, agriculturists were deceived in their anticipations. In spite of this fact even those people who are able to show good wheat can get little or no advance on the very low prices which rule in the market. It is fully expected that these untoward circumstances will show themselves in the coming spring by the number of farms that will become vacant. Large numbers of holders have sent in their notices, and it must become a matter of serious difficulty "with agents to find tenants to take their places. Should the present state of things continue, good farms will, for some length of time to come, be eagerly taken up, but as all farms are not so 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.”