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Evening Star, Issue 14784, 27 January 1912, Page 6

The weather in Canterbury has of Jate been wanner and more settled than in Ota go. and tho harvesting of oats is in full t-wing about AshburLon, several crops liaviiig already been threshed. Threshing has not yet begun in North Otago, u ie evason being late, but -Mr J. B. Waters, wlu) ctune through yesterday, says tha't about Oamaru there is promise of a record ci'jp in both grain and ;;ni.~s it' the weather .set;! in line, hi tho Ashburton district the outs yield is as high, in places as 70 bushels to the acre. Tho ' Timaru Herald ' reports and we bidievc upon good authority, a epeculation in new wheat, 3s having been paid for 10,000' bushels in the trucks. Tho cocksfoot harvest at Banks Peniasula is going to bo very iafco thio year. There will not be much gathered till March. They say that it promissea to be a heavy crop, bat full of weed, particularly tares. "An enemy hath done this"—-the birds.