AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

Press, Volume XVII, Issue 2269, 1 August 1870, Page 2

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

[From the "Australasian," July 23.] The produce markets remain without alteration. Flour is in but limited demand at the old rates, and wheat still scarce in town. Barley has undergone no change in value, but is scarcely inquired for so much as it was a few weeks since. Oats are in good demand, with prices firm; but maize fluctuates somewhat, according to the supply in the market, from day to day. The quantity of hay sent in is about the same as usual, but tlie demand is rather slack as yet this week ; prices have not changed, rather too many loads remaining, however, unsold each day. The farmers were congratulating themselves on the chance of getting in the rest of their seed with the land in fine order for ploughing and sowing, when the rain commenced on Saturday and destroyed all these fair hopes. A heavy fall of rain always follows Buch sharp frosts as we had last week, and these last rains appear to have extended throughout the whole of this and the adjoining colonies, as well as far into the interior. The floods have been rather severe in places, though of short duration, but worse still, the land is almost everywhere rendered too wet to be ploughed again for some days, and grain-sowing will not have ended with July In the great root-growing district around Towerhill, a large proportion of the potatoes is said to remain in tbe ground still, partly on account of the state of the land and partly because of the price continuing so low. In South Australia the crops have been making fine progress of late.