THE CROPS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 91, 10 January 1908, Page 2

THE CROPS.

SOME SINGULAR CONTRASTS. > • Thole are : - (writes our travelling,,porrftt.' • <:'■> spondeilt) • Bomo very excellent-lookilig pad- . • docks of oats about Pordell> with good length^ l :' - - of/ straw, audv fine.: fuJl r .heads.' Grass;...howw "• eye l , is beginning to . look., sllorjb, -rambo*--. - ing muph ; needed.: In the Bonny Glen coun«■ ■ tiy a contiast is seen, most of i the: crops being 'very short.; 111 the straw. One pad-, .dock.m <ar was just,half the height of<;an4 - ■■■<■■■ othei over the fence. I dbn't think (hat sucli.. a)i v . -cxtraoramary , season has. 1 ' known for many regards .crsips»: ,> - : On tlie road- between Oiiepiilnaiul Halcoinbo you may see a,paddock ju.-:which thc:Btooks i 1 • - a, re .raw closo,. but over the fence thcyli'oro ' chains „ apart, and m the next „ paddock. ' | again, they, are almost; j'ljthe.'. bindery and not a footi high. > In'still.aanothe r; paddock close .by the icrop has • been* so'poor .that a largo portion ..lias been leftasynot * °rtn cutting. -.Thenf ; again, between * Hal- ' combe and Foildwg, cjittlo, have been turned ; ■ 111 to feed. oft, -the :crop not - being.; j;ood .enough foi: anything else. 1 On -ill' sides: 0110 hears that, gram of -every-kind': and:- chaff will be dear again [t had need to,be.'as fat as the growers aro concerned. There i are any, amount: of crops' that - will' iiot\lrun' : to a toil.. to the acle. What u grand lime ' the farmers; are lmvmgl; .Wool down, sheep 1 down, poor crops, blighted :• potatoes; :>hna '. : goodness only knows .what next 1.. There s- a ■ great .deal more .in the; farming, business than' ■ ,on.;a holiaay, trip,' throughrthe windows of aiv express train. , Ranr atUhe light or wrong'time makes all the difference ' in the world i. Rape ci ops this yen are npt much to b'pasfc about,, particularly-in,.the fialeouibe distinct;Of..course -there/nre.:: some cxcoptions.-'i'Jjiit; ■ efter seeing the splendid jape paodiicki about M a\eilej 7 , : tlioso are-not to'-bo-jiiqti- \ i/. tioncd. Ram,is much'-vantad,.to force>thcm on.. ; Tlieio..-was a -voryjauce'.Tam. onMVew ■ J-ear s Eyo, iie?.t day; there followed a> heavy : wind, . which..very,.-' Sociii; dried'' iup I'lhoV'tiidig-' '! , fturo/:y/\-:,. v : - '■'■ /'-