The Weather and the j Crops.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 110, 17 February 1900, Page 2

The Weather and the j Crops.

The weather yesterday was moti favourable for harvest work ttailj

has -been the case for the tea or twelve previous days. During the late heavy damp" weather gram crops have been maturing slowly. A good many of the crops are cut 'in parts of the district surrounding Waimate, but little or none of what has been cut has been secured by stacking or passing through the threshing mill, and harvest work has been retarded. If the weather now takes up and continues fine, the bulk of the crops will be cut by the close of next week, and much will be stacked or threshed. Little if^any damage has been done to the er3p3 by the late lon & continued a<nd heavy weather. Turnips and graes have benefited by the change. The crops of grain at Waihao Downs, Willow Bridge, Waikakahi, Makikihi, Hook, and other parts of Waimate County are generally good, and in some places reaping is forward, though not much has been stacked. In Hakataramea Valley, 'where harvest work is m^re forward than in the less elevated districts, the crops are very good, and waiting some dry weather to be safely put together. Along Waitaki North, '£roni Sandhurst down the river, the * crops are fair and grass and turnips are looking well. It is said that on the Takitu, Clarkesfield, lately ac-♦quited-for Gdttmmenl small runs, there are a number oi men employed rabbitting, the pest having increased there considerably during the last year or two. It is said that in the same locality a formidable weed resembling, if not actually being the ' Calif orniun thistle, is spreading ? rapidly.