BANKS PENINSULA.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14563, 14 January 1913, Page 3

BANKS PENINSULA.

Heaping started in the carlTer Cocksfoot paddocks on the Peninsula at the beginning of last week, and tho seed having ripened rapidly, cutting has now become general. The arrival of several men has allayed the fears of a shortage of labour, and all available quickly found employment. .Reports from all parts are of a most favourable nature, and confirm a very largo yield. The crop is reported thick, and of good and uniform height, and in the main clean, fog being the only soft grass met with. Tares, which were so much in evidence to tho detriment of last year' 3 crop, are conspicuous by their absence. In Long Bay and other portions or the Eastern bays tho paddocks look like wheat fields, tho cocksfoot being tall, with hard, well-filled heads, which in threshing- will shed well, and leave httlo or nothing in the husk. It is generally anticipated that it will be the heaviest crop harvested on tho Peninsula for years, and some growers estimate that if all shut-up is out there will be upwards of 90,000 sacks of seed availablo after being -put through the riddles. The weather at present is most favourable, the recent rain having don© much to improve the pasture.