AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.
The total outlay incurred to Oct. 31 for planting the railway reserves of Victoria with wattle was £986 10s Bd. Speaking of the Victorian crops, the Leader says : — In the early districts the wheat harvest has already quite generally set in, some of the crops, by means of the expeditious stripper, having now reached the Melbourne market. The reports from the Goulboum district are very favourable, both as regards quality of grain and average yield, while in the Wimmeraand other of the wheat - growing localities much benefit has been done by the. late rains. The season, though too dry on the whole for the northern districts, is generally reported as having been very favourable for the localities southward of the Dividing Range, and throughout these the crops and pastures are promising well.
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Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1492, 26 January 1882, Page 3
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134AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1492, 26 January 1882, Page 3
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