FARM AND DAIRY.
NEWS AND 'XOTE6. This season's crop of apricots'in the Thames district is a large one, and growers have had no difficulty in securing a market, though prices realised have not perhaps been as high as usual, owing to the large offering of this class of fruit.
One Masterton farmer has a hundred acres of wheat that is ready for cutting. It is expected to yield well over 40 bushels to the acre. The gross receipts, at present prices, will be about £I2OO. It Is reported that traces of the Heßsian fly have been found in. some of the wheat crops in the Masterton district. Some years ago the fly took possession of many of the local crops, with the result that farmers abandoned the wheat-growing business. A Palmerston reporter was informed by a farmer that for this district the season has, despite the dry weather, been a better one than last season. Stock are in good condition, and the milk yield well up in volume. Small birds are doing quite a lot of damage to the crops in Mount Barker, and in some cases (says the Wanaka correspondent of the Cromwell Argus) they have stripped patches of ripe crop bare, leaving nothing but straw.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 26 January 1915, Page 7
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207FARM AND DAIRY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 26 January 1915, Page 7
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