THE CROPS
NOT DAMAGED BY THE RAIN. MANY GOOD AVERAGES REPORTED. SOME UP TO 60 BUSHELS. Though the continued rain in Ashburton County raised some fears regarding damage to crops standing, in stook, and in temporary stack, it appears that very little damage has been done, and that harvesting generally will not be greatly delayed as the strong sunshine to-day was calculated to restore the grain to a. condition where it should be handled properly again. Several hundreds of bags of “headed” wheat which have been standiing in a paddock in the Chertsey district through all the rain, was found this morning not to have suffered, and would be all right provided the weather cleared fully to-day. Reports of heavy yields of wheat in Ashburton County are coming to hand now that threshing is proceeding apace. An area of 180 acres in one of the north-east districts of the County yielded an average of 45 bushels to the acre. This figure, it is said, is not uncommon, while several farms toward Rakaia have produced crops showing 60 bushels to the acre.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 101, 10 February 1936, Page 5
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