SHEFFIELD.
Grain returns from near here, with the exception of outside email pieces, will come from the Homebush Estate, and, although a great deal of soil was removed by the gales, a very fair yield is anticipated. Taking this locality as a whole oats predominate, and will pay good results. Wheat is also In good heart, but rather backward, having had to make a second growth in many cases, and the straw, both of wheat and oats, is short. Several fair looking crops of oats are to be seen on tue low hills opposite the township, but these have uo& yet come fully under cultivation. M>re tuau the usual quantity of grass seed has been through mc strippers, but hay is conspicuous by its absence. Turnips are generally sown, and the work is still going on. Ac present any estimate of the yield ia rather guess work, but it should be up co 25 to 27 bushels for oats and 21 for wheat.
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Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7449, 15 January 1890, Page 6
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