THE RECENT HARVEST.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10208, 8 April 1911, Page 5

THE RECENT HARVEST.

CROPS, PASTURE AND STOCK. The Agricultural Journal for March contains the follo\V7ng:— Most i of the harvest in the late districts j has been secured in good order. The | yields of wheat and barley arc fully i up to anticipations, but of oats are J very irregular; and the same remark I applies to the quality of th" respective .cereals. A larger proportion than usual of oats is being reserved for chaff. The recent heavy rains have vastly improved pastures, rap; l , ami | turnips, growth being rapid and i blight having been greatly diminished. There are fears, however, in, some districts that the season is too far, advanced for the production of a sufficiency of feed to carry stock ovor the winter, stocks of -hay and ensilage being very small, and already, in many cases, encroached upon. Maize has been of great p'-tvico as green j fodder on dairy farms in the North I Island, sustaining the milk yield dur-j iug the dry period. The dairy pro-' duce output, howDvr, is r\iferinMy I reduced. Lambs have not fattened well, and a large proportion of those slaughtered for export are very light. Roth sheep and lambs have] been slaughtered in large numbers, but now that feed prospects have improved there may be some slackening of the rush to the freezing works, and the quality may improve. Fat, cattle are scarce, but fat pigs are plentiful.