CANTERBURY CROPS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7078, 16 March 1910, Page 5

CANTERBURY CROPS

DISAPPOINTING REPORTS. SPECIAL TO THE "TIMES.” / CHRISTCHURCH, March 15. Good! progress is being made with threshing in North Canterbury, but satisfactory returns as regards both! the quantity and the quality are the .exception. . Imperfectly developed grain is very common, and crops whose bulk of straw and size of heads promised fifty to sixty bushels per acre are, in many cases, yielding only half the expected quantity. Threshing machines are. 1 in consequence, having la poor season, and some will be laid 1 up much earlier than usual. Tho absence of prime samples and the offering of. much weathered grain are having a depressing effect on the market, and business is not done

without much negotiation. Owing to the car© tliat is exercised in the grading at Lyttelton and the rejections reported 1 'buyers have to examine the samples offered them most carefully and deals are seldom made until separate samples from the lots in each field laro submitted. . ,

The condition of tho potato crops is giving cause for anxiety, and apparently only, those that have been repeatedly sprayed hare escaped the blight. lii some cases tho crops are completely rotten.