HARVEST IN CANTERBURY.
THE PROSPECTS. By Telergaph—Press Association. GHRISTCHURCH, January 11. Country reports indicae superfe harvest prospects, given fine weather from now till the completion of the ingathering. The rapid development of the pastoral industry that followed the success of the frozen meat trade threw an immense acreage of land into pasture that had previously been under cereal crop. Wheat had been" the staple farming product, but it was not profitable to anything like the degree frozen meat is. Now wheat is bringing high prices, and much pasture requiring renewal, the occasion seems to have been taken this year to grow a good deal more wheat, and the area is very much larger. The long spell of grass h&s done the land a world of good, ad an abundant crop is the natural consequence. The yield hoped for this year will be equal, if not better, than the best.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3090, 12 January 1909, Page 4
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149HARVEST IN CANTERBURY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3090, 12 January 1909, Page 4
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