EXPECTED DEFIFIENCEY IN THE CEREAL CROPS.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7737, 17 December 1890, Page 2

EXPECTED DEFIFIENCEY IN THE CEREAL CROPS.

• • ' Weekly fries; ■:, I - A perusal of our weekly I*t4tk«-*w I crop reports for the Iwt I rtkvert th&.fact that.-we against hope the recurrence o&3 I •showersAt short interval-* dura g«. f and November, furnished *&£s& I grouuds for anticipating move cobSsTi*! I much-needed supply of mol«u«iJw*-Js I -hbhes, hdwever, have* uo.t, kea te?M I To make matters worse there huhrW. I recurrence of parching winds, wi-*J I so - strong as to remove the soil "fr«n ¥ -freshly turned «Pg«,und,-Xy % k>ftW P is exceptional. It is now our pamfal dolV k to record' the fact that our it- s rapidly going off, particular!? h ft I lighter BoU-';nundreds"l{au'i'** r ,o as i fi 4 f . | acres will, not' pay for qu'Uns; or ml 1 stripping. In tome caso9 stock m _*I>**> I > turned into tha ruined c»>rn.]iau['3«i3V-4V>| one case in North Otago ?50 acres of *#)"»« $ have been abandoned' to stock; UiU is &-, X Jorfcuuately not an i»olated lisstaaes. fc-i* I' ohfrdne of others which might b-a ciW I Oats, wheat aud barley, are x„pi_|r emin'' h< lato ear, while the straw * more thaa from a foot to els-liuseii fc-fa?-i" id length. With a -continuance G.VI present scorching weather, barwi-st,- tmt v F 'It's"'--it - Is, will bb umoath-fss.lfeir.tjiu?' usual. Come what njfly, {,*. tho shurm t{ I rain, the yield must bo a my Ugbt'on*,! lighter than has been experienced '•.-§• many years past—probably not ess-iedisg f twelve bushels per acre over all "-.•« Ibeen sown. '- A . A Thelosji,tQ'Canterbury, and wa tfch'ti we may include North -Ot&so la gml-calcuL-tibns,' - must be ■ a -Mi&st {writ-g----one. The area- under* wheat .Issfc j'&t I, iv Catiterhwiy' wMu'-ara-rding io s ' tho Government -returns, &d,i34 awn-, i with ? yield..of per "acre. If, fc&arefow, tha ca* elusions Which have' r (ao& rductefi-j-* { been forced upoa us bf air own obs**f*-,-- f tiona and the reports of our corrf^s- 1 dents, uart-emaatal? p?ove- approthajri!-* I corract,* CanteS-feney h*s| 2,'000.Tw bushela of wneanthd pn%t ! ij?,M| : muca'oats. | A large number oi report* are tohsri-i" regarding the turnip and rapa ttsp*, *.!•# the'grass lende, from v/biert ha* £arm<srs aad pa&toralista a» tewm!***'*' uneasy on . thesis hi-i'ids-; - elso b| ■ some, diati-lfets tjie beau cwp 'tvs, 'been badly attacUod by the j*mn M threatening Us tota,\ dentraotten, MpiXi nothing • bat a complete changft in t f <% - wdather could save it. Vv*t» have rcfefti | enquiries as to the Irntf metfi-tl ol &"*«§ with this pent (the fjre-im fly), but ?«* ft-Ii Hiiab any thing which could ba dans b*ks|| the present cimdUicoui- wot-i-l, .**!''s futile/ I .' It v/ill be admitted that we have &s*i | a gloomy picture of *>o»s«*'| but *ive feel that we can-no tobger i~«8| hbpefol i« view as we have endsatos***! | do In the past. Tha.queation then «« I what can be advised 1 Oar rrplr Is u-* S we must -repeat our *wmar« #""•>•; jg recenff IBf*ue» on tho advis**w-»**e-* **| supplementing short hay, s*a*w, sm »"• | slbiy ,roo6 "crop*- by a libswl M*»»r**» ,autnmn fodder crops, such g ( 'ni&; rape, tares, rj o. oats and C«w | as clt-cu-hristanco"- permit-. & « s * js x;| being .fed oil, and that ™*f;, ; | •have to "bo similarly mft'ed, "be ploughed Immediately « I* U»»*** | of early autumn r_4ns •® t t JM™S-g down as quickly as poaslbio <«&■**••■;| course, that oa which it is P»^*' J j;| aow,early wheat Oi* oatiO. >™'i;Zi does set In the gwwtU will j **&% aad a luxuriant growth of te<& *fc-*U | 'the »BUlt duriß« the winter '^^, » spring-proving lavaloaWs. ff f • ** I Of stock—the earlieat »«?wri to I ; away in time for. qprioflf CW I I mead the above wmarlia *•'•^•_> ( _i l coasidsration of our far minis'*SSSr. 1 Whom we have the Loss of property bad eaough, but the loss of farmer has taken idl care «M*j#j soil and providing the bejt ****** - *;A j .| finitely hea-ier to bear. l"'W^.V H .'f hopeleft.andth6(-a«,th**fcf?*^ 1 l;l copious fall of autumn rate, «g ft , f growth" Of feed, &c, »l}W»yi ttft recompeafse the losses I hopa that It wUI be so fof m *®»* * |