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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3543, 4 May 1880, Page 2

The farming prospects in the Wyndham district are not very encouraging. I have just heard of a large farmer (says a cor-' respondent of the Southland Times) selling some 1000 bushels of oats at Is per bushel; this sum will barely pay for ploughing, harrowing, and sowing, not to speak of harvesting and thieshing. If the price does not improve, it will be a gloomy outlook for the farmers this iucoming winter, as a large number are holding oter last year's oats in the expectation of a rise in the market. I may say that the crops are in many instances first-class, and all the farmers have got their crops in in splendid condition, the wheat especially; the only drawback is the low price ruling. One large farmer in the Mataura is act going to sell his pats at the present rate, but intends to fatten pigs, for which his farm is peculiarly adapted. He has upwards of 700 black Berkshire pigs undergoing the fattening process. If more farmers were to adopt the same course, they would be ju pocket at the cud of the year. ■