GLEANINGS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7079, 17 March 1910, Page 12

GLEANINGS

The recent rains have greatly benefited grass and forage crops in the Marlborough district, and a plentiful growth oi' autumn feed is now assured. .Lambs bare done well on fattening food and the greater part of the surplus stock has now been put through the freezing works. The price for prime lambs locally sold has been up to 10s Gd, but a considerable number have been frozen and shipped on owners' account. The "Southland Times" ;. states that during the last fortnight; since rain came to hand, the turnip crops all over Southland have made wonderful headway, and fields which previously presented "a \-ery bare apeparanee are now most pleasing sights to the eves of the farmer. Indeed, the fear of roots being a failure ha-« entirely" disappeared, and Southland is likelv to" receive a \-ield very little( if any, below the average. The threshing mills are'setting round the country as

ouickv as possible, and whilst a good manv farmers have completed operations ethers are anxiously awaiting the ormai of the machines. The stores, o! the various merchants are now daily receding luigc ouanrities of the new grain ipr the purposes of custody, pending disposal by sale. Information from a reliable source, writes the Winchester correspondent ot the ■'Lvttelton Times" shows that there is a tcarcitv of oats in South Canterburv this year, and it is said the priceis rteadilv" going up. Two of the local threshing'mills have so far put through over 30,000 bushels of grain, and the wheat is estimated at being fully ten bushels an i'.cre less than last year t. crops. A crop of Solid Straw Tuscan, grown on the'deraldine Flat, yielded M bushels.