WINDOWINGS

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 56

WINDOWINGS

UNITED STATES. The wheat crop is doing well, only li,ited areas mostly needing rain. ' Latest returns show that the’corn erns was not so seriously injured as was at on time feared. Experts place the probahl. yield as between 1,800,000.000 1,150, 000,000 bushels. . an, ‘ Induction f s increasing rapufM and the ntates are already entitled f 0 r ,?L lourth m the list ot producers. Thera • a line crop of tobacco in the dark tnh a J 3 districts of Western Kentucky. « and yield, nearly all housed, and-doing' Good cattle aro high. Prices for note have been lower during the last two * tnree weeks, the cheapness of muttnn naturally influencing the demand for fr«t pone. Sheep are still lower. The supply is very heavy, mostly Western 1 f Great expectations are entertained Kansas over a fertiliser from the packing houses for wheat. ° The British are still buying horses for the South African war. The grades they are now taking are about JEIS. “ ( ' A strange eye disease-a species of in. fectious ophthalmia—is troubling some nf the cattle-roarers in the United States. 0 ' Diought in Hawaii continues; it is Ihn severest known for fifteen years. Water for drinking lias io be carried from m, to twenty miles. Cattle on the bis ' ranches are beginning to die by hundreds All live stock that could be driven away has been sent to ether islands. A part of the population is always watching for orest fires to prevent them spreading district th ° trenches du ° a round the lire

CANADA. The Butter and Cheese Association advise the dairymen of Canada to make butter instead of cheese; they find it more profitable. The Department of Agriculture at Ofc. tawa, which has already sent large quantities of Canadian hay to South Afriea, has just made arrangements with the vV'ar Office, tnrough Lord Stratlicona, for ntensive shipments of oats to that country, Halt-a-million bushels drawn from *\l- - North-west Territories, will b» shipped for Capetown in steamed specially chartered by the Department d Agriculture.

EUROPE. In Germany the weather became cooler m the early part of October, with heavy rainfalls, when winter sowing was much hindered. Complaints have been made of ravages of mice from many districts. Winter wheat is not yet all put in; that already sown is up in some places. As fat as can be judged, the condition is not nnle as compared with October, Early winter wheat is in good condition. Seasonable weather lias given the early-sown crops a good set-off. In trance general satisfaction is expressed at the agricultural situation, the " e . her having favoured wheat and r/8 sowings. The recrudescence of the r’lV cussion in the Chamber of Deputies.respecting tlio temporary admission of wheat lias had a disturbing effect upon trade. ■ “ un ff ai 7 the rainfall was general, and autumn-sown crops had a good stsit, and already m some piaces the plants are wel! through the ground. wU talla ? ."'eather remains suitable for carfvmg out of wheat-sowing and other field work. „,^ V l Ces ■ from .some of the principal reglons i Q -Russia speak in terms of th o appearance of autumii-sown crops.