POTATOES AND CROPS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 March 1913, Page 7

POTATOES AND CROPS.

I S'AUiAiUi'A ilEl'OltTS. Tito jpAh* i-v.; reports uii tho past.ui<»-» «uvi «/r .Ia tJio YYuirarapa appear iu fuor.th's issue of t-lio tain i-i Journal — .Noruh Wui; urapa.—The p.«ust month has ix*.'ai /".v. jarttblo, both from a pastoral ojici point of view—showera intermixed with warn' weather, M-fnich had a beneficial eil'eet on pastures. Turnips, rape, and all green crops have improved, except where tlie bliglit lias completely destroyed ttho crops. Factory-suppliers state tluit the average is well maintained. Stock of all descriptions arclooking 'well and, if this favourable) weather continues s hould winter well. Grain crops, by all accounts, are going to thresh' out well up to the average.—J. S. Rankin. :Masterton. —Wo Juul exception,-illy hot. dry ■weathtr (hiring last month, and the pastuirra are very brown. On the ISthi "wo had a touch of winter, and the Tara.rua.s were capped witli snow. Bain fell on tho 2lsb, 22nd, and 23rd, but did not improve the pastures much, though it did a great amount of good to rape and turnips:. All grain crops have been harvested in good condition, the vield in oats so far being from 70 to 80 bushels. " his, of course, i s not equal to last year, when n.s high as 110 was obtained, and 60 to 75 bushels of wheat. The wheat ha<s not he-en threshed yet. Smre good crops of swedes and mangles are noticeable in tho district, and there are yame very good crops of potatoes practically free from blight. The Hessian ifly is reported to have done considerable damage in some parts of tho district. Though some of the maize crops were sown late, they are looking well and promise goo<i yields. There are somo crops of peas in mast parts of the district. Torrwhn win; have been badlyaffected with blight, and only with persistent spraying -havo the larger crop*! been saved. All stock are losing very well. T have noticed in pevc"il -oarts nf the district a blight-Ca.lifoTnian-thistlo rusfc fPuccinia i?u«velens) —on this thistle. This prevents the thistle from seedinc. Some landowner* are endeavouring to snread it from one patch to the other. —T. C, Webb. fVrath Wairarapa.—The weather during the past month was seasontliAre J«avin<r been refreshing min<. which has broniaht away fresh o-rowth. Praet'V*nlly all errms are now harvested. the late crops having been rory much ttormifflh +Jie early d-otunV.. The ''ooo amps have not linpT) {omrvl this scvison. nn-ino- to »lv> d'-i- "-en.+hor evcept in the lowlv!n/y l.i'iflt c+.nr>k in general are looking we??.—S. O. Ivens.