THE HARVEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2504, 19 January 1887, Page 2

THE HARVEST.

I» 'fell ■' • Akura and'tfpm. PtAiK,;:- ••■■' Harvest operations Are in ■ full - : swing. .just how in the immediate vicinity : of Master'ton, and ;jud|ing' by- the appearance of the drops'our farmers;; who: are; taking every advantage of the spleridid : weather, will get a fiiir average return: in all cereals, ' At the Bishop's Reserve; Akura, Mr J. Hesaey put in sixty-five aqres .of wheat and twenty-five of pats, Of the latter ho has already one slack erected ■and,is..now ..'busy, with." a : Horhsbyty Reaper and Binder cutting a ; niagnifi. cent patch of white Tartarians,. which flhonld thrash out fully' sixty, bushela to, the acre, lYft;Hwsey'n wheat/is (juitei ftf (jutting;'and i» a mf

clean ana" evenxrop, fllip,wing r 'whafiM| effect liberal working of-tbci/ gtfiaiiS has upoii'ltie growth' of the grain., I ... As a coatrast, 'a pbriibii of the samH block on the oppoaite. side of the roacfl helpngipg;: to. ■ Messrs; ;Williama anl Beetham/is 3pwn: la oats- (about: 3h iftty: wthoMjijntioned'abote are tbfl jwvmuch t| as to til amount of working' it received. beforS tfie'seecl'was puferinr 1 .:;'::'- "'• I ..'Messrßßanh.ißter.Bros, have abooj a hundi;dd - aer>r'bf' the;ikura blooj mixed. oroprof ;■ wheat: anl oats];;. which;arc a'piolire to afj Th&' ;: whest will■ "fully ■susta^thl reputation'of the Akura as the beJ graw^P, ff 'inß,g r ?H n d in'the district and- ; if ■ Iff^es;jnot: yioid forty-fiJ bushels,to the aore-ikwill deceiva soni of the best-judges' we. bavo. The oaf .nw«ming;on.vciy.Wß)l Jv and will book bei&dyfbr thel harvesters, but as tbl fhblebf the to be a bj cbwnwnced to wor 'pnihera^X ls"\iy\: ' ''.'■:' lathe direction of Upper Plain &j 'B," Ohft^berlain; has got moat.ofb bata' in "s'twk/and' bythealA of -*» JDpfitiD|f" reaper and binder a bay; ;cr6p; beiiiTicl .bis'JdWellfDg is fagj;hajn ; : for'tiie •• Oa tha appl : site *ld**:.of he has a patch ■ 1 mixed ck| wheaitanci J oat,i;whicb;ha?e been grow ifor^orse'lpMefVioi life/out npio th! sheaves as-chaff;, Th)s, patch whic .variesacfioi'ding to the;qualities of tl soil; Ss a good average one, it being hit light in front but heavy at tl back. Mr Chamberliiin is outling with a "Hon.slty'a Bnck Tilter owing to the non arrival of Hornsby'a Reaper and Binder that wi supposed tohuveheen leliveredtoli order in Mastertonui timo forth harvesting, The "Tilter" perforn its work in good style- but it is a mo expensive machine to run, owing to large' number of hands being requlr* to clear the track.., - Mr G. Chamberlain has a nice 100 ing patch of wheat at the Akura corn which is ripe'umg; well, and towards tl back along tie'. liiish, the oats that J Liddiugtoii is cutting are a very proi isinglot. : _ At Mr Hflssey's homestead in full swing"; the threshing machine busy knockiri&put a neventeeuacrecn .of. peas,' whieh "will realise betwei eight ami'rime hundred bushels, and considered a very satisfactory return. AbbuHhjrty acres of oats are, i stookwbioh will bear favorable oar parison with any crop in the Wairaraj ;in factitwoiild bediffloult to beat thai and the twenty acres standing, are aboi the genpral average of oat oropa in tb district;. ■ • •• '. . Mr.Hessey has about twenty-si acres of whwiMbuib is ripening we! .on tio homeßtaad. the whole of his era; being; dirnct* evidoiice of what got tanning*;wiiL'" dp, towards auccessf growing.'' •.,,..•'., Mr Ohalmera has havyeated a goi crop of oats by the aid; of a no Hotnsbys reaper and binder, the pa ddck' l be%*.as'oleanly worked by t! msohinb as though swept with a broo fhb crops of Messrs Stamps, Auk tell, andDagg, are showing npwe and if appearances go tor anything, tl Upper Plain will not suffer .for 81 gupjWßed ilfeffeo'ts of ■ the season.' •j|t;G, Chamberlain has got in paddopk of wheat at the rear of.h residence, whiph showed up well bo ■ifrlengthof; strawand'the quality.' ; Mr *T. Chamberlain has commenct on hia,wheat and peas, the latter bar acrop thai pays best to thrash rig away, he is .devoting his time ing ting them off at once. As thianhi account is the result of a flying vis it must not be supposed that it ei braces the whole of the orops in tl neighborhoods mentioned, . We sh endeavor after the harvest is coi pleted to place our annual report boft our readers as usuhl.