HARVEST NOTES.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10263, 4 February 1899, Page 8

HARVEST NOTES.

A visit paid to the Hpringston-Lincola district shows -.1 uniformly good and even area of crops. Starting ut Parish's comer, Springston, and going down lumber's road, one sees some remarkably heavy paddocks of grain. Mr F. Marshall has three wonderfully tine paddocks of Pearl and Tuscan wheat. One paddock of 25 acres will thresh 60 oushels, an dtwo others 50 bushels each. The land has in former seasons yielded 70 and 60 bushels of wheat per acre. The next farm on the Christchurch road is Mr Frank Bailey's, which is the late Mr X. Shand's property, which, as far back .as twenty-six years ago, was famed for heavy* crops of wheat, Mr T. Shand having grown 60 bushels per acre. This season Mr Bailey has threshed 70 acres of wheat, which yielded 52 bushels per acre. Down towards Greenpark -a* H. Kimber has land that could not be beaten in the world, either for growing grain, roots, or grass. This season he has 60 acres of wheat that will go 60 bushels per acre, and 50 acres of oats that will yield 80 bushels. Messrs W. Pearson, Joseph . Powell, S. Pearson, and P. Goodnek all have heavy and fine crops bh' land adjacent to Air Kimber's. Mr F. C. Murray has a large acreage of fine wheat and barley. One paddock has threshed 60 " bushels. At Lincoln, where the land is drier, the yields are not expected to be so large, but here again are uniformly heavy yields. Mr G. A. Smith has 160 acres threshed out, which have yielded 49 bushels per acre. At Ladbrooks, the land is again heavier, and yields are heavier. Last season, although so bad, Mr Walter Kimber, on Mr G. A. Smith's land, threshed 47- bushels of wheat per acre, an dtliis year be *$ill have, heavy yields. Mr W f Millar _di',-threshed one paddock of wheat that yi«ide'i. i M' 'bushels,' wlilie Messrs Watson, GibVdfl i-md Mraith all havo fine heavy crops" o£' w_ea£ Mir Percy J. Fryer ha 3 340 acres <rf wheat that will average 40 bushels, while .Oa his "Guelder Land" farm the yield wilt run. 50 for wheat and 60 fpr oats, "in the Prebbieton district, on lighter land, bhe crops are ajso uniformly good.. In-fact, it is impossible to see a poor paddock? Mr John Overton's model farm looks particularly well. He has 200 acre* of crop that will average £0 bdshela ; but this is not in any way remarkable for Mr Overton, as by a careful rotation of crops, hahas averaged this yield for a number of seasons. .Messrs Scales, Thompson, and Hastia have threshed out paddocks: yielding 45 ' bushels per acre. Messrs J. W; Prebble and . J. G. Taylor;have each 50 acres of wheat' that will average 40 to 45 bushels of wheat. A gentleman, writing from the Nortk Island, thus racily describes the weather experienced in the district in whici Jia. r_r sides: "Our harvest weather till now haJ*lb«o_. diabolical and reminds one of what tefc thousand devils of discord must ba ■ HJt* threshing the wind. Rain and gale(H--r_st and caterpillar. Yet, withal we will have good crops." '' Mr H. E. Peryman, of Tai Tapu, has had a splendid all round yield of grain on life farm.' Sixteen acres of Tuscan wheat, threshed out of the stook, yielded 1120 bushels, or an average of 70 bushels per acre, the grain being a prime sample, plump and hard, and the seconds were formed chiefly of cracked grains. Mr Peryman has other wheat in stack that is expected to yield even heavier than this. Twenty-three acres of barley gave a return of 1840 'bushels, or 80 bushels per acre 1 ': and seven acres of Canadian oats produced 546 bushels,' or 78 bushels per acre. * .

I The continuous showery weather is : delay- [ ing the harvest in the Waimate district, and there has been scarcely a day lately that has I not had its shower. The crops are very I heavy. ■■'■ ■■■"'■? ' v*- < . — • 7 •^■; , ... (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEOHAM.) s ''J J i-ioMi-v INVERCARGILL, February 3.; >.ft<'The weather has been fine, with a day's good rain, for which cereals are not vet too far advanced.