RURAL TOPICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14611, 19 February 1908, Page 8

RURAL TOPICS.

Despite the dry season the crops at Cheviot are turning out rather better than were expected. A correspondent informs the “News” that Cape barley threshed at an average of from forty to fifty bushels per acre, Hunter’s white wheat fifty bushels, and grass seed about thirty bushels. Some threshing machine plants in tho Rakaia district have already completed their season’s work, their tallies averaging between 16,000 and 20,000 bushels. The tallies of several threshing plants operating in the districts around Ashburton are already 40,000 bushels, or 15,000 in advance of last year’s returns. The average yield of wheat in the Lyndhurst and Lauriston districts is about - sixteen bushels per acre, and that of oats 25 bushels. Alessrs Alcove and Olueas, Seaview, have threshed for an average return of slightly over 30 bushels per acre. At the Canterbury By-Products Company’s sale of skins at Sockburn yesterday, lamb skins sold at Is 7d to 2s 3d, and pelts at Is lid to 2s 7d. DIPPING SHEEP. The following is a copy of a letter recently received by the proprietors of the well-known Cooper’s Dipping Powder:— “ Riby Grove, Stalling-boro’, Lincolnshire. October 10th, 1907. Alessrs W. Cooper and Nephews, Dear Sirs, — I have used your ‘ Powder Dip 1 for many yeans past, and this- season has been no exception. AI.V flock, including all my show sheep, have been put through the dip with the best of results, proving now valuable your preparaiion is to’ the breeder. —Yours faithfully, for Hy. Dudding, T. B. Tc-rry.” 842