THE CROPS AROUND WOODBURY

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 105, 27 January 1908, Page 2

THE CROPS AROUND WOODBURY

Our Woodbury correspondent states , that while most crops are severely from tho dry weather thero are others which, through having got an early start, Will givo more than an average crop. A 60-bushel crop of oats is reported from Woodbury, and other good yields at'Opihi, Rangitata, and ltivcrslea. ' At the last-named place a splondid crop of, elephant swedes are conspicuous on Mr. John Brown's place. The tops of some had been broken away, and a good second growth of leaves for green feed had resulted. Some farmers aro cutting grass on the roadsides. Much of the cocksfoot seed is light. Potato plantations are good, but majiv of the crops are at a stage when rain would cause a second growth. Orchard crops are deteriorating; water is being .carted in tome distriota.

JfITBOCEN FROM THE AIB.' ? > ft , LAROE OPERATIONS IN NORWAY'" * In a recent Consular report a very inW ' eßting account is given by -Mr, H D PiercbJ r \ '* 1 tlje American Mipistcr ontho working of the jllant established it Nottodon, in Norway, for tho production df^jnit- 1 < " ' rato shits by the;oxidation of-the freojmttor/. ;^ gen m tho air by ( |the Birkland-Byde process. ( When Mr. PifcrceL visited th& works, thp en- , tire .plant was pot yet- in operation,-but.;- ~ nitrate of, lime ital .fcoda wero.bcmgmanu- ' factured & wiale of about 1000 toils a 1 i year, and tho (jommeroial .success of the, process had beerr so far demonstrated • that.... a new ..and largei; : plant was being installed-i-l-;- ■ .which would be. capable f of producing 20,000^. •tonsa of basic nitrate, of lime per- annum. , ■ The output, it islsaid; finds a ready market, — especially in Goi'many/ a fertiliser; and .the Company, "which is largely. financed by . " ••Fronch" capital,: 'is projecting further: large -; works, with a plunt of 250,000. horso powers v Of course, tho'possibility of; obtaining, y - ! gen from the avr- bymeans of high power • olcctrio ■ dischargos'.wiis demonstrated many --- -r .•■■■ •years ago,, but Ijhis isi.practically .tho,;first. time-it has boon attempted on a commercial / . scale, and if' the! mfethod prove: a> fiUcceSs, it ' 'v ■ • must have important results '