COCKSFOOT CROPS.
THE CANTERBURY YIELD.
[BY ' TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
Chiustchukch, Saturday. The cocksfoot has ripened rapidly during tho last few days, and reaping is now in full swing. Round Akaroa Harbour and Little" River the crops generally are thin and disappointing. In the earliest paddocks from the outer bays, however, reports are more hopeful, there being some good average crops, a few of the later paddocks being equal to if not better than those of last season. Labour is now urgently needed-, in these bays, the seed having ripened so quickly that the growers are anxious to get it down before it shakes. For good reapers Is 9d per hour is being paid, and inferior hands can earn according to ability. Returns to hand up to the present point to about half the usual yield.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14573, 9 January 1911, Page 6
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