The harvest in North Canterbury will be late this season (states an exchange). Owing to the wet weather having retarded the ripening of the grain, it is anticipated that few crops of oats will lie out before another fortnight. Though the warm weather is bringing them on wonderfully, the wet spell tended to make the growth rank, and on heavy lands it turned some of the crops an unhealthy yellow. This fault is being remedied fast. The oat crops aro well out in the ear, and some,are brighten ing just before commencing to ripen. They will not bo ready for the binder for another three weeks. In other years stooks have dotted, the paddocks as early as Christmas time,. Wheat generally is in flower and it will no! lie ripe until probably the end of Janu ary. The countryside is looking well There is more wheat in than there was last year, though it is extremely doubt ful whether the average yield per acre will be as high as that of last year, which was a record.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 12
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