THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9670, 8 March 1897, Page 2

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

I The grass is coming along in the North J Canterbury district by inches, and the browned look of the country in the closing days'of January has disappeared. This fact fully accounts for the good prices obtained for sheep at the' Anlarisftle, as there is now more grass tha.n,the sheep can keep under. Turnip crops are coming on,with wonderful luxuriance, and at present there is every prospect of good times' for the" grazier through the autumn and winter months. There is yet some of the grain harvest standing put, and regarding the stooks and the stack, farmers would be glad to have a few daye hot nor , -west weather to harden off the corn. Bean and potato crops are healthy and thriving. Clover and cowgrass are thi3 season patchy crops, and in some of them the yield of seed is likely to be short in weight as well as in quantity. The annual sales of sheep in the district are very largely represented this season. There are important sales taking place at Amberiey to-day and Rangiora to-morrow, and next week at Rangiora the «mnm\ ram and ewe fair. j

(PBSSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS.) GREYMOUTH, March 7. Heavy rain has been tailing all day. _, NELSON, March 7. The weather has been remarkably wet for some three weeks. It cleared yesterday, but heavy rain fell again to-day. Late crops are practically spoiled.