THE HARVEST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2504, 20 January 1887, Page 2

THE HARVEST.

; If anything; was .watiH, to prove: tlifO griiiri "growing oa|w.bilitieH.of ' thp' land in the n<>igl)i«)rliood' of" Masterton,' h ' dme wound" the district within » radius of threo miles, from the Pobl Office would give a very good id Va of what we are utile to d'» in agricultural pursuits, and at'.the sumo time afford a an opportunity of witnessing the harvesting of between three an,l tour thousand acres of train, that, taken as. ut whole will bo equal to anything, we have grown in the Wairar.ipu. Owing to the long spell, of hot dry weather tbe jura has ripened faster than some at theiai'iiier* wo.dd, liked to have ,ueeu it, and no doubt in 8 -nte cam the quality of the grain will -ILdrly sulf r but even with this apparent drawl auk w» do not ht.ar any 1:0111, lain's of the harvest, and.,given fair weather tor the completion of the ..work our agriculturists will be aMe to put down this season anting the best they have had. Where : h \ land is a bit heavy, and rcta'i 3 ita mo'stura the wheat has been, fo nd 0 nu'ure much.better this season ilan in the light soil. In the latter.'case the hflada have well developed, tut, before th« grain could ripen, the straw and huskai have come to maturity, leaving no nourishment for the seed, winch will be inolined to shrivel up, instead of ripening properly. Whichever wav one turns the continual whirr of the .reaper and hinder is to lie heard, as.it sleeps down the grain in 1 i*s passage, aifd thp perfect manner in.which these machines-,go 'throngh their work of cutting,, tying,.and,-delivering is a triumph of inodflrn mechanism. ■ Well bililt stacks are' fprihgirig up like -mnshrbomß .'to all directions,, allowing thai when a'farmer, ii-om-anencß. his harvesting ,ih is. ,all, work, there must be ; no manures' in it, for budly liHi'vesU'd grain will do more iiam»KtV&iirl be more disastrous,' than even a had femmn. Where the machines caiflie got/thrashing is bciug carried on from the atook, that is, where th« grain is sufficiently ripe, and' where this win he done the «ayiiig,is at onoe appah Jit to thoie Who follow, jjgrj. cultural pursuit?. If otir readers would", care to follow 11s round on a visit to the. Various neighborhoods, we t would take thfijjn tirsfc tQ Te o;e.'Qr('. Nothing of any rifite .ii! grown on this sidtjof-tlje Ruamahanga Bridger-justcouple of. small patches of oats, onn standing mid.the other ill atook. Once tiver'the bridge wcconrti among the of llr • D,' Guild, who has just commenced on his ;whi'at, whit'h is a very hniidAmie looking crep.lt-is very clean and even, and the'heaviness of the growth gives the pair 'of "Osborne's"'all. their work to do at reaping and binding, Mr Guild has finished thrashing otit' a sixty acre paddock of 'oats, which from general' appearand will,give a fair return,. On the opposite, siile. of the road Mr Percy, vyjtli. r " Dueling," ia busy knocking down his wheats of which ho lias about, una Yuadi'etl aiid- twenty acres, The

crop has # dep appearance, fair length ; of ptraw,.:witji' well developed heads. Mr CaveVcrops, adjoining lir Percy's, are looking very 5011, one paddook of blu6lr7Tartarian oats being and the ; machine workingbusily, on: a decent-looking patch of wheat.' Mr : ..Caye baa. •• about. ...a, hundred and twenty^acrespf .whe^t' ; to" get in, and alxiat>rforty acres. of oataivf: He has a nice looking icropyof turnips Of'^boat: eighteen - that' gives quite' 'a- to; green and healthy. looking topi Another paddock of - about 1 , -the same acreage has been-sown for the same root' crop, but is th?. seed'' liaa■, not received the benefit-of rain,: the. land is the eame ua when the roller left ifr.No doubt a good downfall -of rain would, aoon send it through 'thb'Burfaoa, The Maori 1 oropa have' noi hkd labor expended •apon-thetia -to'bring them to anything like a.dfidcnt pitoli, ' but aa we shall have to eay on -them. m we will Jet. tjji*'... ;jwsalng : ;;.-glance suffice, ''.The any note about the pah is-a crop of oats that has boim' farmed 'by Mr Percy ; these look paßsable, but the land has' evidently;'iuffered through'' overwork and neglect. Iu journeying along the Opaki road we again find: everything in aveijrUyely etato, from the road sweeping down to theßuamabahga riveir'Vipeiifhg fields are reoeiv-, ing the. attention of • harvesters, who from daylight to dark bare to work almost without intermission. Among the principal of the growers here .are the Messrs Welch 'Bros., R. Welch; R. Camp bell arti Brbwt, and they have each some splendidly grown patches, ('.quailing anything that lias yet been grown on thin favored spot, On taking the loop line we come upon the .crops of , Mess'rß Buick, Holmwood, and Macara, whicb. are being rapidly harvested, The splendid Hats not having suffered through the want of rain, are growing excellent grain, that should give favorable returns at the thrashing, Proceedin?; to' the' Akura we pass Mr Summer's crops, which are showing up veryj v&ll, and as we noticed the Akutu and Upjief Plain in yesterday's issue, we will r,;ass to the Manaia, where Messrs ■Judd Bros, Carman, Thompson, and MuQregor are among, the principal growers, and they are all busy with their machines, Mr Carman has the •thrashing machine at work, knocking the grain from/the stook wherej. .practicable, and the others are gettiug; Theirs,, in stack, By, taking , tha 'Borough boundary road wo arriv<|,; -hack into town after passing Messrs; .ilorris 1 , Johnson's, and several smaller crops at the' Makora and have, thuspa> ed I rough the principal gui'n ironing localities iu ; this 'district. -There are,of courie, hundreds of'acres that, caflnbt be sch from the main. •wj*d ; for.institojfe; .along the banks rif ihabga, and daitn on the Wiii'potia jigaia along the Wni\ a >wa,•,but. we hop*- to give, a more 1 s'aocounl. .when -the • work of. • harvesting is dfaiwing to a .cjose,