CANTERBURY PRODUCE.
WHEAT FOR NEXT HARVEST. 1 POTATOES HARD TO SELL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. A fortnight or so of fine weather has allowed agricultural operations in the country to proceed uninterrupted and a great deal of crop work has been done. Wheat hae gone out for sowing freely, and it appears that with reasonably weather there will be a fair sowing for the next harvest. The area will now almost certainly be very considerably bigger than that put in last season. Little of the present crop is left now in the hands of the farmers. Potatoes are, if possible, in a worse situation than they were at the beginning of this week. TJiere appears to be no market for them at all from any quarter, and with digging going solidly on offerings have been plentiful. The price is nominally £3 on trucks, but a seller would find it hard to obtain business even at this •low figure. Chaff continues to meet a fair demand, and all available is readily absorbed for shipping. Oats are very quiet and are seldom mentioned. There is a fair demand for white clover, which for specially choice lines is worth up to 1/. I Red clover is dull.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 4
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